todo

NYT TODO

• Ronan Leaving M.T.A. With a Lot of Believers https://www.nytimes.com/1974/04/27/archives/ronan-leaving-mta-with-a-lot-of-believers-ronan-leavintg-mta-with.html
• Longstanding Concerns Over Public Authorities https://books.google.com/books?id=30POjUBce6YC&pg=PA284&lpg=PA284&dq=Temporary+State+Commission+on+Coordination+of+State+Authorities&source=bl&ots=jg0tJzEFnO&sig=9GEAkr2P6_2QY3J3Yshzwo4CKjA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjj6fj91PXXAhUlmeAKHYJUCxkQ6AEILDAC#v=onepage&q=Temporary%20State%20Commission%20on%20Coordination%20of%20State%20Authorities&f=false
• Staff report on public authorities under New York State, March 21, 1956 https://books.google.com.uy/books?id=KFo1AAAAIAAJ&hl=es-419
• Amid Subway Crisis, Cuomo Taps an Old Hand to Head M.T.A. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/22/nyregion/mta-subway-cuomo.html
• Obama Unveils Stricter Rules Against Segregation in Housing https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/09/us/hud-issuing-new-rules-to-fight-segregation.html
• Trump Administration Postpones an Obama Fair-Housing Rule https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/04/upshot/trump-delays-hud-fair-housing-obama-rule.html
• Tags: todo

Rapid Transit Act of 1894

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1894/11/06/106878996.html?pageNumber=4 https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1894/11/08/106839825.html?pageNumber=4 https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1894/04/29/106829861.html?pageNumber=4 https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1894/11/08/106839863.html?pageNumber=8

• Tags: legislation todo

Janno Lieber becomes MTA Chief Development Offficer

• Was at Silverstein Properties
• Source: Emma Fitzsimmons, "World Trade Center Developer to Oversee M.T.A. Expansion Projects," The New York Times, April 19, 2017. link
• Tags: lieber mta mta-leadership todo

David Gunn leaves MTA

• Source: William G. Blair, "Gunn to Leave Transit Agency; Says System Is Now Acceptable," The New York Times, January 6, 1990. link
• Tags: gunn mta mta-leadership todo

2015 MTA Budget

• Source: Emma G. Fitzsimmons, "M.T.A. Approves Budget, but Deal Cuts 2nd Ave. Line Funding," The New York Times, October 28, 2015. link
• Tags: budget mta second-avenue todo

New Fare Payment Technology

• Source: Emma G. Fitzsimmons, "From Swipes to Taps: A Look at the End for MetroCards," The New York Times, April 18, 2016. link
• Tags: fare-payment mta todo

HUD Vouchers

• Source: Michael Winerip, "In New York,, H.U.D.'s Vouchers Pay for Already Cheap Housing," The New York Times, December 31, 1989. link
• Tags: housing nyc todo

Board of Estimate approves Second Avenue bond vote

• Source: "$500,000,000 VOTED FOR 2D AVE. SUBWAY BY ESTIMATE BOARD," The New York Times, September 14, 1951. link
• Tags: bonds mta second-avenue todo

TWU Strike Averted

• Source: "Agreement Reached on Transit Contract," The New York Times, January 1, 1972. link
• Tags: labor mta todo twu

Port Authority Misc

• Toll increase proposed in 1980 even though agency has $52mil profit
• 1962 law to keep itself out of mass transit
• Tags: port-authority todo

MTA Misc

• Fares
  • NYT in 1982 on tax package falling short
  • NYT in 1914 on state railroad fares
  • NYT in 1982 on Ravitch's potential 40% fare rise
  • NYT in 1981 on Ravitch's worry about federal aid cuts
  • NYT in 1982 on Ravitch's fare control policies
  • NYT in 1980 on Ravitch and Carey with MTA productivity measures
  • City Journal on some various MTA history
  • Lists on fare increses: NYSubway.com and Wikipedia
• NYT in 1990 on long subway fare lines
• NYT in 1933 on subway tax to retain city credit rating
• Unification
  • NYT in 1940 on subway unification difficulties
  • NYT in 1940 on subway unification
• Tags: fares mta todo

Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village Sold

• Sold to Tishman Speyer Properties for $5.4bil
• Built by MetLife
• Doctoroff had something to do with it link
• Source: "Sale of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village Goes Through Despite Some Tenants’ Efforts," The New York Times, November 18, 2006. link
• Tags: doctoroff housing nyc todo

Bob Kiley appointed MTA Chair

• Date: October 5, 1983
• Tags: kiley mta todo

I searched "people mover midtown" in the Times Machine and this is what I got

• Search: https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1968/09/21/76882207.html?pageNumber=55
  • https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/11/04/79433710.html?pageNumber=43
  • https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1973/05/23/90441783.html?pageNumber=27
  • https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1976/12/23/98375499.html?pageNumber=27
  • https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1972/03/09/79427637.html?pageNumber=16
• New Rail Service to Jersey Urged: https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1972/04/21/82220824.html?pageNumber=62
• Trail between planes: https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1991/10/06/080991.html?pageNumber=523
• Path Extension: https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1974/02/10/97469704.html?pageNumber=67
• Queens Rail Line: https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/11/01/88867239.html?pageNumber=66
• Queens rail line under question: https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1975/09/22/80059735.html?pageNumber=23
• Yankees Stadium in Manhattan: https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1993/10/01/470393.html?pageNumber=43
• Hudson rail tunnel: https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1973/12/28/91065294.html?pageNumber=33
• Tags: todo

MTA To Find

• Bear, Stearns & Co. Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Finances of Mass Transit Services in New York City. New York: Bear Stearns, 1983.
  • Source: WorldCat
• Crowell, William H. "Financing mass transit in New York City"
  • Source: NYPL
• Ravitch, Richard. "Staff Report of Capital Revitalization for the 1980s and Beyond"
  • Source: WorldCat
• Tags: mta todo

MTA Misc

• Late 60s Stuff
  • NYT 1
  • NYT 2 - Rockefeller 1971
• MTA Timeline
• Fares
  • John Hylan's Nickle Fare
• Station Sponsoring
  • Since 2009, Barclays pays MTA $200k a year to append the name Barclays Center to the Atlantic Avenue station
    • Source: Politico NY
• New York City Transportation Authority Act
  • Source: NY Public Authorities Law §1200
• Metropolitan Transportation Authority Act (NY Public Authorities Law §1260)
  • Source: MTA
• Transportation Law - if system runs a suprlus, it is required to be used to reduce fares or increase services
  • Source: NY Transportation Law §18-b
• Transportation Systems Assistance and Financing Act of 1981
  • "added to the TA Act and the MTA Act the provisions regarding transit projects, the capital program plans and the Capital Review Board." Source: CUNY on MTA Control Mechanisms
  • NINETEEN EIGHTY ONE WAS A BIG YEAR
  • Source: NYT
• New York Rapid Transit Law
• New York State Open Meetings Law
  • Ravitch says in "So Much to Do" this is why their board meetings on voting for fare increases were public
• Wagner Act - federal law that legitimized collective bargaining
  • Son of sponsor was eventual NYC mayor
• Strikes
  • 1982 Ravitch
    • NYT Untapped Cities
• Politico NY on Ravitch
• NY Mag on Ravitch
• NYT on Ravitch
• Investment Tax Credit - Enacted in 1962 by the IRS to stimulate private investment
• Steve Polan
  • Google brings up a strong list
  • Columbia project
  • NY Mag on Coliseum
• Tags: mta todo

NYC Misc

• Ford Library Museum - New York City Seasonal Financing Act of 1975
• UCSB - Jimmy Carter speech on New York City Loan Guarantee Act of 1978
• CUNY MAC Archives
• Board of Estimate
• Mitchell-Lama Housing Program
• Rockefeller Institute reports on New York State budgetary balance
• Tags: nyc todo

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

• Let "accelerated depreciation" expire
• Source: nyc
• Tags: moynihan nyc people tax-policy todo

Robert Moses responds to Robert Caro

• Source: batc
• Tags: moses todo