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The long, sordid history of New York’s Penn Station shows how progressives have made it too hard for the government to do big things—and why, belie... (2021)
It doesn’t take very many ultra-wealthy Americans changing their address to wreak havoc on cities’ finances. While the pandemic has helped to a... (2020)
Big fish - In twenty years, exchanges have gone from clubby firms to huge conglomerates They control everything from the software powering back... (2020)
Why the Bus Got So Bad, and How to Save It JOHN SURICO OCT 10, 2019 TransitCenter’s Steven Higashide has created a how-to guide to help city... (2019)
Why did Lyft block users of a third-party app from accessing New York’s Citi Bike? It’s the start of what could be a fundamental showdown over mobi... (2019)
Amazon may not call it home. But the city, by design and because of its allure, is increasingly a magnet for coders and companies. (2019)
The arrival of the tech company’s new headquarters was set to shake up the borough’s real estate market, driving up rents and spurring displacement... (2019)
New York City is considered one of the country’s most crowded market for sports stadiums and arenas — many of which have been built with sizable pu... (2019)
From congestion pricing to rezoning, there are all kinds of ways to tap New York City’s vast wealth to fund transit improvements. (2019)
"They use their legal authority on behalf of lenders who charge more than some mafia loan sharks once did... (2018)
Chicago’s subway has also been plagued by crumbling tracks, antiquated signals and unreliable trains. Here is how it turned around. (2018)
The widespread failure of American mass transit is usually blamed on cheap gas and suburban sprawl. But the full story of why other countries succe... (2018)
The biggest challenges to the Bay Area’s dominance in tech will likely come from overseas. (2018)
An archivist uncovered them last week. (2018)
The MTA’s ambitious bus overhaul plan has long-suffering transit advocates giddy. Now comes the hard part. (2018)
Philip Ashforth Coppola has spent 40 years illustrating subway stations–and revealing their forgotten histories. (2018)
Nearly 80 years ago, a construction standstill derailed the subway’s progress, leading to its present crisis. This is the story, decade by decade... (2018)
Facial-recognition systems can help bolster security, but some experts say the technology raises questions about privacy and data security. (2018)
Airbnb’s effects on the city’s housing market have been dramatic, a report suggests. And other cities could soon see the same pattern. (2018)
Startups raised $11.5 billion in venture capital last year, putting the city in striking distance of you-know-where. (2018)
Think Penn Station is bad? Let’s go into the crumbling, disaster-prone tunnels that lie beneath. (2018)
Disruptions and delays have roiled the system this year. But the crisis was long in the making, fueled by a litany of errors, a Times investigation... (2018)
How excessive staffing, little competition, generous contracts and archaic rules dramatically inflate capital costs for transit in New York. (2017)
A night in one of New York City’s new micro apartments. (2017)
Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed into law Friday a bill that penalizes users of services like Airbnb for advertising short-term apartment rentals in New Yo... (2016)
Internal MTA documents show everything we thought we knew about subway delays was wrong (2018)
One recently won metro of the year; the other declared a state of emergency. How did two such similar transit systems end up on such different trac... (2019)
Every day 300,000 people take the L train to and from work. I am not sure if that is 300,000 people or 150,000 people going in and out, but either ... (2018)
We asked experts what they thought it would take to improve New York City’s subway system. Here are six suggestions. (2017)
The tragedy of the Second Avenue Subway. (2017)
Is 270 Park Ave New York's comeback skyscraper? (2023)
From New York to Austin, America’s biggest cities are littered with vacant plots of land because property tax bills can skyrocket once vacant lots ... (2023)
The Simple Genius of New York City’s Water Supply System (2022)
New York has always been home to some of the world’s tallest towers, but in the last 10 years the city has seen an influx of super skinny buildings... (2021)
Learn more about this project: http://www.myleszhang.org/here-grows-new-york-city/ This animation illustrates the development of NYC’s street grid ... (2019)
New York City subways have the worst on-time performance of any major rapid transit system in the world. This is the story of how the city ended up... (2019)
While researching climate change, we heard something confusing: the sea level in New York City is rising about one and a half times faster than the... (2018)
That bench won't be yours forever. Subscribe to our channel! When designing urban spaces, city planners have many competing interests to... (2018)
When it was built in 1977, Citicorp Center (later renamed Citigroup Center, now called 601 Lexington) was, at 59 stories, the seventh-tallest build... (2023)
Yesterday we examined the financials that lead to the fall of Bear Stearns, and now we're going to look at the human side: A couple of unlikely Wal... (2018)