Thursday, October 25, 2012

Transit Initiatives Are Giving a Boost to Businesses, a Report Says - NYTimes.com

Transit Initiatives Are Giving a Boost to Businesses, a Report Says - NYTimes.com: "In Brooklyn, where a parking area on Pearl Street was converted into a plaza, retail sales have increased 172 percent for neighboring businesses, compared with 18 percent throughout the borough."

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Monday, October 1, 2012

Is the Governor of New York Building a Bridge to Yesterday?

Cuomo’s Crossing – Next American City: " Nearly 300 public meetings and $88 million later, the state had a pretty good idea of what it needed to do — build a bigger bridge with mass transit facilities. Then, with a short press release and a quick news conference, everything changed."

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