In January, before everything blew up, Eliot Spitzer started an effort to rename the Triborough Bridge for RFK. Yesterday, near the fortieth anniversary of the assassination of Kennedy, the New York State Assembly voted to pass the name change. Gov. Patterson says he’ll sign the bill, and the Triborough Bridge will soon have a new […]
The final round of the 2008 fare hikes went into effect last approximately 36 hours ago. At 3 a.m. on Sunday morning, the tolls on the MTA-controlled bridges and tunnels around the city went up. NY1 has the details and the MTA has a handy chart detailing the new fares both with and without the […]
Clyde Haberman, writing his NYC column in The Times, argues that the City shouldn’t rename the Triborough Bridge after Robert F. Kennedy. I agree. Interestingly, Haberman proposes naming the bridge after Andrew Haswell Green, a 19th-century urban planning who has been nearly completely overshadowed by Robert Moses. [The New York Times]
When Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1968, he was at the time a Senator from the great state of New York. Yet, since we associate the Kennedy’s with Washington, DC, and Massachusetts, no one really remembers RFK’s ties to New York. Now, Gov. Eliot Spitzer wants to correct that oversight.
In today’s State […]
How did we miss this story for so many weeks? According to a report by Jeremy Olshan in The Post, the MTA’s fare hike leaves subway riders footing a higher percentage increase than drivers using the MTA Bridge and Tunnel tolls. In the era of the congestion fee and an increased call for traffic […]
The Henry Hudson Bridge, a Robert Moses project, provides the northern-most escape off the island of Manhattan. (Courtesy of flickr user King Coyote)
Let me leave the subways behind for a minute and talk instead about a lesser-known branch of the MTA: MTA Bridges and Tunnels. Once the various authorities headed by Robert Moses, the MTABT […]
