De Blasio, who called Sadik-Khan a 'radical,' comes around on an expansion of bike lanes:
Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, who's running for mayor this year, has decided he's a big bike-lane booster.
Bio: Dana Rubinstein is a reporter for Capital. She has written for Bloomberg Businessweek, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the New York Observer, and the Brooklyn Paper.
If Flushing Meadows Corona Park is more than twice as big as Prospect Park, then why does Prospect Park have nearly four times as many staff tending its flower beds and picking up litter?
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on February 20th, 2013 5:12pmWhatever nominal headway former Metropolitan Transportation Authority chairman Joe Lhota made in winning over the reflexively anti-M.T.A. politicians of the suburbs seems to have been as short-lived as his chairmanship. More
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on February 20th, 2013 4:35pmJoe Lhota is running for mayor on a platform that, in its emphasis on data-driven management and private sector experience, sounds an awful lot like Mayor Michael Bloomberg. More
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on February 20th, 2013 11:00amAlexander Garvin, a Yale University planning professor who managed New York City's bid for the 2012 Olympics, thinks Major League Soccer has shown a notable lack of "imagination" in its search for a suitable site for a new soccer arena. More
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on February 20th, 2013 9:54am
mattfleg: @danarubinstein @SecondAveSagas Oh, I'm sure you're right, I wasn't there -- just noting the trend. (or 2/3 of a trend by NYT standards)
riceid: @danarubinstein fascinating
TWULocal100: @MC_NYC @danarubinstein @grynbaum that is worth a http://t.co/6eNHoVVS
stevecuozzo: @danarubinstein Mr. Liu can do the 8 million a favor by keeping his thoughts to himself.
McHugh: . @danarubinstein But no one is flying kites in storms. People are jumping in front of trains! http://t.co/umfXayh7
eliotwb: @danarubinstein @alexgoldmark Here's one that hasn't been built: http://t.co/IAfPIQYNmattfleg: @danarubinstein or maybe: "parts of it are clearly inspired by some of the best airports of many mid-sized cities."mattfleg: @danarubinstein my favorite line
