City Nolan
Words in Streetsblog. Examining how we make passenger rail better (electric/modern) for NYU-Marron. Prev: NY Mag, NY Post-Metro, NYDN. Hook’em🤘. 🏳️🌈. Tips? bynolanhicks@gmail.com; Signal/WhatsApp. On Mastadon: journa.host/@ndhapple
- Is the pollen in NYC this spring objectively worse than the last few years or are my allergies just going insane
- Two key differences: 1) Reagan’s Air Force One was outmoded and had been effectively replaced for more than a decade by the current 747s before its donation 2) It’s been built into a pavilion as part of the museum piece of the Reagan Library, giving the public access.
- Okay, I suspected this. But apparently they're being explicit about it. The Trump "library" gets the plane after Trump's presidency with the understanding being he gets to continue using it as his personal plane. NYT v explicit on this. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05...
- Other alleged Hizzoner shenanigans, in which helping “homeless youth” was apparently a pass phrase x.com/lizkimtweets...
- And the Sun-Times got a photo of the new pope at a Sox Game (yes yes the 2005 World Series) — chicago.suntimes.com/religion/202...
- “THE CITY visited Cuomo’s apartment with photos of Captain, asking neighbors if they’d ever seen him; of the dozen people who stopped to chat, nobody had.” www.thecity.nyc/2025/05/08/p...
- "Among the areas affected by this week’s layoffs are an expanded unit within the railroad that was intended to shepherd some of its largest capital investment projects, including new multi-billion-dollar rail tunnels in New York City and Baltimore," www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
- Case in point for Yonah's thesis: www.newsday.com/long-island/... (And basically the entirety of East Side Access)
- Extended engagement processes & balkanized decisionmaking have led to the US suffering from declining infrastructure investment. In new work at @urbaninstitute.bsky.social, I argue that we also need to consider a 3rd issue: The informal role of local elected officials in influencing outcomes.
- “A Month of Randy Mastro” — hellgatenyc.com/a-month-of-r...
- “Andrew Cuomo warned: Don’t pass notes to super PAC — Campaign finance regulators admonished New York mayoral candidates against coordination with super PACs.” www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
- “Columbia University announced Tuesday that nearly 180 people whose salaries had been funded by federal research grants would be laid off, as the effect of the Trump administration’s cuts on the campus deepens.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/u...
