Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan is probably turning in his grave right now. Plans for the Moynihan Station have been "derailed" as plans to discuss it have been postponed. Officials had been hoping that the Public Authorities Control Board would approve the project this year, so it would happen under Governor Pataki's term. But with opposition to and many questions surrounding the project, the NY Times reports "the Pataki administration took the proposal off the table again yesterday rather than risk a vote against it." Hello, brinksmanship! more ›

The Dalai Lama was in town yesterday to receive a key to NYC - maybe this was his way of celebrating his 70th birthday! The ceremony took place in front of the Farley Post Office, site of the future Moynihan Station, because of the Dalai Lama's friendship with the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and he said, "With the opening of this new station here in the future, it will contribute to the joy and also to the greater ease for the movement of the people of this city." Selfishly, Gothamist wishes the Dalai Lama could guilt the State government into rethinking its financial support (as in, giving some) to the MTA, but, really, we'll take whatever spiritual guidance he can give us. more ›