“Traveling on the New York subway system is now one of the more frightful experiences Western civilization has to offer on a regular basis. The experience is not only intolerable. It is also a daily advertisement for the brutish sensibilities and shallow brainpans of the people who now control the city.”

“Rather like an aging samurai or a 19th-century empire builder who has lived past his time, Robert Moses remains proud of his monuments and cannot accept the modern challenge to his build-at-any-price ethic.”

"The world beneath Man­hattan is a cake of endless layers, a foundation as deep as the Chrysler Build­ing is high."

Technology exists to make it feel cooler while waiting on sweltering platforms, but the MTA isn’t likely to implement it anytime soon

Construction shouldn’t have caused the D/N/R lines to melt down during rush hour, but it did

For all Joe Lhota’s plan offered in dollar figures, it lacked any hard, fact-checkable promises

In a word: history

‘On time and on budget, and made resilient for decades to come.’ Or a few hours, at least.

If we want to be able to get there from here via bus, the city DOT, the NYPD, and the state legislature are going to have to get on board

You can probably guess the answer