I'm going to keep @mtaupdates up and running for the foreseeable future (next week I'll post a tutorial on how I made it), but if you want to keep on top of any changes and disruptions to the public transit here in NYC, definitely check out @kona's transit bots:
I kind of doubt anyone at NY's MTA follows me, but if anyone is interested, I have just put up my own NY MTA bot, which is putting out all MTA service alerts (well... hopefully... just wrote the software last night/this morning, LOL) It's at @nymta_bot#NYC#NYMTA#NY#transportation#transit
The #MTA is off twitter! If you live in NYC or use the service
(including metroNorth, CT friends!)
Please contact the MTA and let them know they would be more than welcome on the fediverse. They could probably have their own instance "@mta.info" just the way it ought to be.
This Man’s Conviction Was Overturned After Two Years in Prison. But the City Said He Didn’t Deserve a Dime.
A jury found #NYC liable for #NYPD rights violations in a case city lawyers fought for years. Critics say the hardball approach helps perpetuate a cycle of #police misconduct.
The judge said that in her 22 years on the bench, she’d never seen documentation of the city’s constitutional failures “like the evidence I’ve heard in this case.”
@mattblaze Considering the mess of the LIRR has been all I've known, really...you bet! I saw it at about midnight, too, so it was lovely and clean. The sense of space took me back to European stations I saw as a kid, or in movies. #NYC#BlackAndWhite#photography#train
If you're in NYC on June 10, be sure to stop by the Emily Warren Roebling Plaza in Brooklyn Bridge Park to get a free ride in one of the vintage buses from the last 90 years of transit history.
Love when I can find a way to talk about NY sports but also collapsing these kinds of taxpayer-bilking schemes.
"Let’s revoke MSG’s property tax exemption. But at the same time, we should get Newark to promise they won’t offer MSG with a better deal in the Garden State. New York and New Jersey have a history of interstate compacts and can lead the way for the rest of the country.”
"Days before my Tower Records closed down in 2006, I visited the damn near empty store and almost wept. To this day, I’ve never stopped thinking about that music sanctuary for the twenty years it existed at that location."