Cost Efficiencies Finally Fully Realized In Department Of Transportation Sign-Saving Plan

The other way to look at it is that DOT correctly anticipates demographic trends:

The shuttered St. Anthony of Padua school on Leonard Street — whose “No parking–school zone” signs are still in affect and snaring drivers even though the school has been closed for five years — will re-open this year, meaning that soon the parking tickets will at least be legit.

As For All Those Union Jobs . . .

. . . they were (pre-)fabricated:

And this week, Forest City Ratner confirmed that it was considering erecting a 34-story prefabricated, or modular, tower, as a way of cutting its construction costs and fulfilling its obligation to start building housing.

The construction unions that Mr. Ratner had lauded last year for sticking with him were stunned by the suggestion that much of the work might take place in a factory, where wages are much lower than on-site. Forest City has put off the start date for the tower, the first of 16, until the end of the year.

Location Scout: Atlantic Yards.

Truer Words Never Spoken

“In the end, anything is a urinal when you want it to be.”

It Feels Like Something I Saw On Web Soup; It Hurts

Kickball-snark experts at the Brooklyn Paper sound the alarm about subpar renovations at Brooklyn’s McCarren Park Kickball Fields:

Just try to imagine a summer without Brooklyn Kickball. It’s a nightmare, right?

Location Scout: McCarren Park.

Star Trek 2.0: Path Of Khan

How the worldwide push toward progressive transportation goals died for Bloomberg’s sins:

Connect the dots, and this becomes a much more significant story than the future of one bike lane in Brooklyn, or even the career of one official. New York City justly sees itself as the world’s greatest city: here, in some sense, people live the way everyone would live if they had the chance. How New York — the city that still has a uniquely low level of car ownership and use — manages its transport planning in the 21st century matters for the whole world: it is the template. If cycling is pushed back into the margins of that future, rather than promoted, along with efficient mass public transit and safe, pleasant pedestrianism, as a key part of that future, the consequences will be grave and grim.

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