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Quote of the Day

9:42 AM EST on December 9, 2009

The Daily News captured this off-the-cuff comment from Mayor Bloomberg on Albany's sudden failure to deliver more than $350 million to New York's transit system:

"I don't know why anybody is surprised at what is happening to theMTA," he said. "It's a piggy bank that keeps getting raided."

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Ben Fried started as a Streetsblog reporter in 2008 and led the site as editor-in-chief from 2010 to 2018. He lives in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, with his wife.

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