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City Holds Its Breath for Silver
At the end of last week it appeared Mayor Bloomberg was on the verge of pulling it off. Having scored a congestion pricing bill in the state Senate, coaxed a cautious endorsement from the governor, and all but securing a near half-billion dollar pledge from Washington, Bloomberg sailed into Friday's state Assembly hearings on a wave of green apple-fueled adulation.
June 12, 2007
Thank Goodness for Dear, Glorious Leader Sheldon Silver
Almost exactly one year ago, Harvard economist Edward Glaeser wrote a great little essay for the New York Sun's op/ed page that asked the question, Does New York Suffer From A Soviet Traffic System?:
June 11, 2007
Spitzer Backs Congestion Pricing
Is Mayor Bloomberg actually going to pull this off? Governor Eliot Spitzer came out in favor of congestion pricing this morning. Elizabeth Benjamin at the Daily News reports:
June 7, 2007
Pricing is Alive. JFK Rail Link and SMART Fund May be Dead.
Annie Karni reports in today's New York Sun that the outlines of a congestion pricing bill may be hammered out in Albany before Memorial Day, though not exactly as Mayor Bloomberg initially proposed.
May 21, 2007
Electeds React to Congestion Pricing
Forty-eight hours in, here is what some elected officials are saying about PlaNYC and congestion pricing.
April 24, 2007
Eyes on the Most Powerful Man in New York State Gov’t
NoLandGrab is now reporting that Sheldon Silver is now expected to vote to approve Atlantic Yards today.
December 20, 2006
Did a Blogger’s Big Scoop Stall “Atlantic Yards?”
NY1 is reporting a rumor that Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver will not vote to approve Forest City Ratner's Atlantic Yards development project at tomorrow's three-men-in-a-room meeting of the Public Authorities Control Board. (Amazingly, this one meeting constitutes the only legislative "debate" and vote that this massive project will ever see). NY1 reports:
December 19, 2006