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Our top story today: The MTA’s obscure work rules with its Long Island Rail Road unions make it too costly to provide decent game-day service for Mets fans. Yet Yankee fans get the Metro-North “Yankee Clipper.” What gives? Nolan Hicks goes yard.
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.