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New York State gerrymandered

artappraiser — Mon, 15 Apr 2019 00:34:38 +0000

New York State gerrymandered Hudson Yards to public housing projects in Harlem via the Central Park census tract (!). https://t.co/biNGDMQbQw
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) April 12, 2019

Apparently 25 people were recording as living in Central Park, per the 2010 Census, but nobody is quite sure if they're homeless people or Parks Dept. employees. https://t.co/4Mu3i4l04m
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) April 12, 2019

Res ipsa loquitor. Standard

artappraiser — Sat, 13 Apr 2019 01:13:45 +0000

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Res ipsa loquitor. Standard operating procedure:

Cut costs at the MTA? Sure! (But it won’t come cheap).

How a $2.3 million consulting contract in March went ⬆️ to $3.75 million in April - @THECITYNY explains: https://t.co/ATqfB518Mi
— Jose Martinez (@JMartinezNYC) April 13, 2019

Just another factoid for the

artappraiser — Tue, 09 Apr 2019 23:16:11 +0000

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Just another factoid for the third world comparisons:

An effort de Blasio launched two years ago to outfit every New York City public school classroom with air conditioning appears further from the announced finish line than when it started because of an initial miscount when the mayor announced his... https://t.co/aPbbxA90j8
— Dennis Futoryan (@dfutoryan) April 9, 2019

Hudson Yards, @kimmelman

artappraiser — Thu, 14 Mar 2019 16:44:44 +0000

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Hudson Yards, @kimmelman writes, “gives physical form to a crisis of city leadership, asleep at the wheel through two administrations, and to a pernicious theory of civic welfare that presumes private development is New York’s primary goal.” https://t.co/N7lcnq7Csx pic.twitter.com/7GGDQa8FhD
— New York Times Arts (@nytimesarts) March 14, 2019

A billion here, a billion

artappraiser — Sun, 03 Mar 2019 02:19:24 +0000

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A billion here, a billion there,

ThriveNYC was designed to address the noncritical mental health problems of everyday New Yorkers—but the city’s real crisis is people with serious mental illness. https://t.co/wOUa1IeS8k
— The Beat (@TheBeatMI) March 3, 2019

Allow me to to guess: plenty of new jobs for well-salaried "therapists" with bachelor's degrees, leading sessions imitating free twelve-step programs but not as good; lots of progress reports filed to enable many short visits....

Federal prosecutors in SDNY

artappraiser — Thu, 21 Feb 2019 22:58:11 +0000

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Federal prosecutors in SDNY presented hours of evidence showing ex-Cuomo aide Joe Percoco used state resources while he was Cuomo's campaign manager. The state ethics panel appears to have decided to do nothing about it. https://t.co/LP1uRH3uwU
— erica orden (@eorden) February 21, 2019

He doesn't give credit where

artappraiser — Wed, 20 Feb 2019 01:24:35 +0000

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He doesn't give credit where due! The Democratic party machine of NYC did this first and best and still does!

A scorching paragraph about America's mysteriously high infrastructure costs.https://t.co/5gCgXOMxYe pic.twitter.com/mJY5YEZKJK
— Noah Smith (@Noahpinion) February 18, 2019

Edit to add Noah Smith's additional comment:

If America doesn't get our construction costs under control we're going to look like a developing country.
— Noah Smith (@Noahpinion) February 19, 2019

to which I would add that NYC, which never did get it's act together, but instead grew worse again with returning Democratic leaders reinforcing the machine, already does look like a developing country.

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artappraiser — Wed, 09 Jan 2019 00:03:19 +0000

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https://t.co/S2MHfvXsm4
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) January 8, 2019

Cuomo wants to 'blow up' the

artappraiser — Tue, 08 Jan 2019 17:49:01 +0000

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Cuomo wants to 'blow up' the MTA after L train debacle

By Lovett & Dan Rivoli @ NYDailyNews.com, Jan. 8, my underlining:

Frustrated by what he sees as an entrenched bureaucracy that lacks imagination to find new ways to do things, Gov. Cuomo said Monday it’s time to rebuild the MTA from ground up.

“Blow up the MTA. Blow it up,” Cuomo said during a meeting with the Daily News Editorial Board.

Cuomo picks the MTA’s chariman and its CEO. But to Daily News editors, he griped that the agency — created in 1968 to consolidate transportation services in New York and its suburbs — was created in a way that no one can claim accountability.

The governor’s remarks came days after he upended a major MTA capital project — the rebuilding of the L train’s Canarsie tunnel, which runs under the East River [....]

https://t.co/tNJUpNefFc

artappraiser — Thu, 27 Dec 2018 05:04:35 +0000

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— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) December 27, 2018