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It was a very busy day on Monday, with MTA CEO Janno Lieber letting his frustration with Amtrak boil over into a curse-filled rant about how the federal train system isn’t letting MTA workers get timely access to its tracks to expand Metro-North service.
We also have a story about how the placard elites are dumping their illegally parked cars on Downtown Brooklyn.
Two decades after a major rezoning, the city should continue to emphasize pedestrians, cyclists and bus riders in Downtown Brooklyn in order to make the best possible version of the neighborhood as a residential and job center.
Treating the arrival of United Nations diplomats to our world-class city as a burden rather than asset shows the dearth of quality public space in New York — and shows we are not the envy of the world.