“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.”
Originally published March 14, 1977
“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.”
Originally published May 17, 1973
"The world beneath Manhattan is a cake of endless layers, a foundation as deep as the Chrysler Building is high."
April 19, 2019
Technology exists to make it feel cooler while waiting on sweltering platforms, but the MTA isn’t likely to implement it anytime soon
August 16, 2018
Construction shouldn’t have caused the D/N/R lines to melt down during rush hour, but it did
July 30, 2018
For all Joe Lhota’s plan offered in dollar figures, it lacked any hard, fact-checkable promises
July 24, 2018
‘On time and on budget, and made resilient for decades to come.’ Or a few hours, at least.
April 30, 2018
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
April 25, 2018