My Big Apple - News from New York City

[Cyrus]

Je suis tellement content d'habiter a Montreal et n'a pas avoir besoin de me soumettre a tous ces peages

 

J'aimerais juste que NY adopte la systeme full-electronique comme la 407 en Ontario qui me permettrait de ne pas payer le peage de tout facon

 

Par contre le coffre a gants de ma ancienne Firebird compte toujours un demi-douzaine des jetons de peage pour le pont Champlain et Jacques-Cartier

[Malek]

C'est partout la même crosse... les transports en communs qui sont dans le rouge vif, et les mêmes qui doivent payer la note des gros salariés syndiqués.

[LindbergMTL]

City picks 3 firms in Taxi of Tomorrow contest

 

 

Ford, Nissan and Karsan near the finish line in the city's effort to design a 21st century taxi specifically for the unforgiving streets of New York. But none are assured to win the Checker flag.

 

New York City's yellow taxi fleet is one step closer to a complete headlight-to-tailgate makeover, as Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Taxi and Limousine Commissioner David Yassky Monday announced that three companies—Ford Motor Co., Karsan USA and Nissan North America Inc.—were the finalists in the Taxi of Tomorrow competition.

 

More at http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20101115/FREE/101119909

[jesseps]

City picks 3 firms in Taxi of Tomorrow contest

 

 

Ford, Nissan and Karsan near the finish line in the city's effort to design a 21st century taxi specifically for the unforgiving streets of New York. But none are assured to win the Checker flag.

 

New York City's yellow taxi fleet is one step closer to a complete headlight-to-tailgate makeover, as Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Taxi and Limousine Commissioner David Yassky Monday announced that three companies—Ford Motor Co., Karsan USA and Nissan North America Inc.—were the finalists in the Taxi of Tomorrow competition.

 

More at http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20101115/FREE/101119909

 

Some reason the cab reminds me of the one from Total Recall

[jesseps]

Anyone following NYU 2031 expansion plan?

 

Current/Proposed

 

This project massive!

[LindbergMTL]

Hehe, je suis dans le bloc 7... Et je viens de prendre connaissance de leur plan en fait. Beaucoup de construction en vue, yeah! Merci Jesseps.

Modifié 15 novembre 2010 par LindbergMTL

[jesseps]

 

One of the ideas of what they want to do with the BQE.

 

There's been a lot of talk about giving parts of the BQE a makeover (a park, a silencer)—and last night there was a meeting concerning how to "fix the ditch." Or, rather, a meeting about how to pay for the grandiose visions that have been proposed (the cheapest of the three plans is $10MM).

 

According to the Brooklyn Paper, options range from building six lightweight bike/pedestrian bridges over the ditch (the sunken section over Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill and the Columbia Street Waterfront District), to a massive tree-planting effort, to constructing an iconic, $85 million, energy-generating “green canopy."

 

Residents are all for greening up the eyesore, but is it just a pipe dream? The concepts come from a plan led by the Economic Development Corporation—ultimately they'd like to achieve one of these options in a cost effective way sometime over the next 10 years.

 

(Courtesy of Gothamist)

 

The BQE reminds me of the Decarie.

[jesseps]

Madison Square Garden's Future Catwalks Revealed!

 

Three Developers in the Running for Long Island City Megaproject

Article

Modifié 29 novembre 2010 par jesseps

[LindbergMTL]

Wow, où sur Long Island exactement?

[jesseps]

Wow, où sur Long Island exactement?

 

Hunters Point South (Video)

Modifié 29 novembre 2010 par jesseps