New York City Transit History - Todo

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NYT TODO

  • Ronan Leaving M.T.A. With a Lot of Believers https://www.nytimes.com/1974/04/27/archives/ronan-leaving-mta-with-a-lot-of-believers-ronan-leavintg-mta-with.html
  • Longstanding Concerns Over Public Authorities https://books.google.com/books?id=30POjUBce6YC&pg=PA284&lpg=PA284&dq=Temporary+State+Commission+on+Coordination+of+State+Authorities&source=bl&ots=jg0tJzEFnO&sig=9GEAkr2P6_2QY3J3Yshzwo4CKjA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjj6fj91PXXAhUlmeAKHYJUCxkQ6AEILDAC#v=onepage&q=Temporary%20State%20Commission%20on%20Coordination%20of%20State%20Authorities&f=false
  • Staff report on public authorities under New York State, March 21, 1956 https://books.google.com.uy/books?id=KFo1AAAAIAAJ&hl=es-419
  • Amid Subway Crisis, Cuomo Taps an Old Hand to Head M.T.A. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/22/nyregion/mta-subway-cuomo.html
  • Obama Unveils Stricter Rules Against Segregation in Housing https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/09/us/hud-issuing-new-rules-to-fight-segregation.html
  • Trump Administration Postpones an Obama Fair-Housing Rule https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/04/upshot/trump-delays-hud-fair-housing-obama-rule.html
  • Tags: todo

Rapid Transit Act of 1894

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1894/11/06/106878996.html?pageNumber=4 https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1894/11/08/106839825.html?pageNumber=4 https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1894/04/29/106829861.html?pageNumber=4 https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1894/11/08/106839863.html?pageNumber=8

Janno Lieber becomes MTA Chief Development Offficer

  • Was at Silverstein Properties
  • Source: Emma Fitzsimmons, “World Trade Center Developer to Oversee M.T.A. Expansion Projects,” The New York Times, April 19, 2017. link
  • Tags: lieber mta mta-leadership todo

David Gunn leaves MTA

  • Source: William G. Blair, “Gunn to Leave Transit Agency; Says System Is Now Acceptable,” The New York Times, January 6, 1990. link
  • Tags: gunn mta mta-leadership todo

2015 MTA Budget

  • Source: Emma G. Fitzsimmons, “M.T.A. Approves Budget, but Deal Cuts 2nd Ave. Line Funding,” The New York Times, October 28, 2015. link
  • Tags: budget mta second-avenue todo

New Fare Payment Technology

  • Source: Emma G. Fitzsimmons, “From Swipes to Taps: A Look at the End for MetroCards,” The New York Times, April 18, 2016. link
  • Tags: fare-payment mta todo

HUD Vouchers

  • Source: Michael Winerip, “In New York,, H.U.D.’s Vouchers Pay for Already Cheap Housing,” The New York Times, December 31, 1989. link
  • Tags: housing nyc todo

Board of Estimate approves Second Avenue bond vote

  • Source: “$500,000,000 VOTED FOR 2D AVE. SUBWAY BY ESTIMATE BOARD,” The New York Times, September 14, 1951. link
  • Tags: bonds mta second-avenue todo

TWU Strike Averted

  • Source: “Agreement Reached on Transit Contract,” The New York Times, January 1, 1972. link
  • Tags: labor mta todo twu

Port Authority Misc

MTA Misc

Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village Sold

  • Sold to Tishman Speyer Properties for $5.4bil
  • Built by MetLife
  • Doctoroff had something to do with it link
  • Source: “Sale of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village Goes Through Despite Some Tenants’ Efforts,” The New York Times, November 18, 2006. link
  • Tags: doctoroff housing nyc todo

Bob Kiley appointed MTA Chair

I searched “people mover midtown” in the Times Machine and this is what I got

  • Search: https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1968/09/21/76882207.html?pageNumber=55
    • https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/11/04/79433710.html?pageNumber=43
    • https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1973/05/23/90441783.html?pageNumber=27
    • https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1976/12/23/98375499.html?pageNumber=27
    • https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1972/03/09/79427637.html?pageNumber=16
  • New Rail Service to Jersey Urged: https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1972/04/21/82220824.html?pageNumber=62
  • Trail between planes: https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1991/10/06/080991.html?pageNumber=523
  • Path Extension: https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1974/02/10/97469704.html?pageNumber=67
  • Queens Rail Line: https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/11/01/88867239.html?pageNumber=66
  • Queens rail line under question: https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1975/09/22/80059735.html?pageNumber=23
  • Yankees Stadium in Manhattan: https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1993/10/01/470393.html?pageNumber=43
  • Hudson rail tunnel: https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1973/12/28/91065294.html?pageNumber=33
  • Tags: todo

MTA To Find

  • Bear, Stearns & Co. Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Finances of Mass Transit Services in New York City. New York: Bear Stearns, 1983.
  • Crowell, William H. “Financing mass transit in New York City”
  • Ravitch, Richard. “Staff Report of Capital Revitalization for the 1980s and Beyond”
  • Tags: mta todo

MTA Misc

NYC Misc

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Robert Moses responds to Robert Caro