Odds and Ends
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The past few weeks have seen a series of articles, data releases, and comments relevant to things I have...
Author: Larry Littlefield
Alternate Side: Tickets Mandatory, Street Sweeping Only When It Isn’t Needed
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The City of New York gives tickets on my block for not moving cars out of the way during...
Death is the Ultimate Statistic II: The Most Important News In Ten Years
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In September 2012 it was reported that the death rate was rising, and life expectancy falling, for middle-aged White...
New York’s Rental Housing Crisis: Partly Distributional, In Some Ways No Worse than Elsewhere, and New Owners are Relatively Worse Off
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According to the 2015 American Community Survey from the U.S. Census Bureau, for 45.6% of New York City’s renters...
The Gateway Tunnel and New Bus Terminal: More Money that New Jersey and the Port Authority Can Afford, and More Time Than They Have
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We are told that we have a crisis. The two Pennsylvania Railroad tunnels under the Hudson River are more...
What the MTA Deal Means
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So I hear Governor Cuomo and Mayor DeBlasio have cut a deal. So how much will Governor Cuomo pay,...
Poverty Anywhere Leads To Poverty In New York City
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The 1970s were a devastating decade for New York City. The middle class and employers fled, leaving the old,...
Schools Are Obsolete: IT and the UFT Have Convinced Me
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There is, or at least was until recently, an idea out there in America that every child deserves a...
The Perpetual Campaign
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It’s bad enough us civilians are being subjected to the unreality TV show that is the quest for the...
Our Efficiently Inefficient System of Injustice
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Stunning news arrived from the world of sports last week. http://www.si.com/nfl/2015/09/01/tom-brady-new-england-patriots-deflategate-ruling “New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady’s four-game suspension...
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