The Michael R. Bloomberg 7 Train Extension

A big infrastructure project to put your name on:

City and MTA officials in hard hats cheered as the second of two machines — named Emma and Georgina after Mayor Bloomberg’s daughters — finished their year-long run from 34th St. and 11th Ave.

Leave The Cold-Weather Games To Vince Lombardi And Steve Sabol Voiceovers On ESPN Classic

This is why God created domed stadiums:

The bid to host the 2014 Super Bowl at New Meadowlands Stadium, portions of which were obtained by The New York Times in advance of its Wednesday unveiling, dresses the Super Bowl in a giant “I Love New York” T-shirt, spinning even the prospect of bad weather as a chance to go “old school” and embrace a link to some of the N.F.L.’s storied cold-weather games.

Next Time, Please Make All Edits In Pencil

As the City budget looks grim for next year, the Staten Island Advance identifies ways the City is doing its best to use up whatever money is left in this year’s budget:

Fresh off the pointless labor of putting lines on a Dongan Hills street, the city Department of Transportation was painting the town again yesterday, this time laying reflective white stripes down the center of the West Shore Expressway.

Only problem is, the new paint was dropped right down the pothole-riddled center of the crumbling highway, which is itself slated for milling and repaving starting Monday night.

Many of the new hashmarks were actually painted inside the potholes, which had the comical effect of accentuating their depth and craggy edges.

That’s just the micro version of municipal waste. The Daily News’ Errol Louis discusses some macro issues here.

What’s 700 Square Feet When You Can Basically Do Whatever You Want?

Earlier, the Post found an Atlantic Yard refugee who had been holding out without anyone knowing it. Now the attorney who led the charge against the Atlantic Yards project identified a condemned strip of land that hasn’t actually been condemned yet:

A piece of property about the size of a standard one-bedroom apartment in the footprint of the Atlantic Yards site was never officially condemned, says attorney Matthew Brinckheroff in an action filed in Kings County Supreme Court on behalf of the property’s owner.

Peter Williams Enterprises Inc., a company owned by Peter Williams, filed the lawsuit seeking a declaration of the ownership of a tax lot at 24 Sixth Ave., which includes a roughly 700-square-foot thin strip of land behind a former condominium, as well an above-grade parcel on top of that same building.

Location Scout: Atlantic Yards.

All According To Plan

This certainly inspires confidence that every tenant and property owner was treated with the utmost of sensitivity and the kind of careful attention that befits using eminent domain to chase people out of their homes and deny business owners their livelihoods:

Developers of the $4.9 billion Atlantic Yards project were thrown for a loop after a family emerged from a worn-down Brooklyn building last week — and demanded more money to get out of the way of bulldozers ready to raze the block, several sources close to the project said.

The holdouts, who lease apartments at 481 Dean St. in Prospect Heights, are asking for at least $170,000 more to move out of the footprint of the Nets’ new basketball arena.

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Neither the developers nor officials from the Empire State Development Corp. were aware anyone was still living in the Dean Street home, according to two people close to the deal.

“These people were elusive — we didn’t even know about them until last week,” a source said.

Location Scout: Atlantic Yards.