Retooling

8 December 2008

AllWaysNY is undergoing a few updates and will be back soon!

*shakes fist at MTA* by LarimdaME on Flickr.
In response to The MTA’s plans for yet another round of fare hikes next July and in 2011, State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli will begin an audit of the MTA’s finances, according to The Post. The examination of the transit agency’s new budget proposal, which includes the fare increases, [...]

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New York Now: Discussion

27 July 2008

Early plans from 1957 for Pan Am’s flying saucer-shaped JFK Terminal 3 (now used by Delta) initially included a whopping nine gate positions.
From Beijing to Madrid, cutting-edge designs and innovations are transforming the ways we experience the world’s airports and air travel. How is New York’s airport system, which remains the busiest in the country, [...]

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To Everything There is a Season…

24 July 2008

All Welcome on Flickr.
…A time to break down, and a time to build up. This past week it was reported that yet another Bay Ridge religious institution on 4th Avenue is planning to sell its property for new development. The congregation of Bay Ridge Baptist Church at 4th Avenue and 67th Street has decided put [...]

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AllWaysNY Photomat

21 July 2008

Brooklyn Tech on Flickr.
Brooklyn Technical High School in Fort Greene.

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Move to Modernize City’s Building Inspection Information

17 July 2008

In an effort to prevent the type of building site inspection failures that led to the two tragic deaths in the Deutsche Bank building fire last year, city officials are trying to modernize the way inspection data is stored and shared between agencies. The city is hooking a new $5.5 million IBM computer system into [...]

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Tickets Coming

17 July 2008

Select Bus service was launched on June 29th on a limited cross-Bronx route in which passengers pay at vending machines before they board (and retain a payment receipt) to help minimize delays on the express service. It’s taken some time for riders to get used to the process, and the MTA is still attempting to [...]

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Sidewalk in the Sky

16 July 2008

Pictured above is not High Line version 1.0, but a bold solution to a growing congestion problem on Broadway circa 1873. When Alfred Speer, a wine merchant and inventor from Passaic opened a store on Broadway near City Hall, he found pedestrians, delivery carts, and omnibus traffic all chaotically jockeying for position on the crowded [...]

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AllWaysNY Photomat

16 July 2008

Keep It Moving on Flickr.

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WTC Construction Delays = Fraud?

16 July 2008

Restore on Flickr.
There’s a new call to expose exactly what is going on with the redevelopment at the World Trade Center site. It seems that Anthony Shorri, former executive director of the Port Authority, may have violated federal securities rules when he touted overly-optimistic construction timelines and budgets for WTC redevelopment and in effect [...]

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