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Mayor Proposes Permit Plan To Allow Parking Restrictions

Mayor Bloomberg is proposing a "residential parking permit program" that would restrict parking spots to neighborhood residents during certain hours. Drivers who did not display neighborhoodspecific permits would be ticketed. If approved by the City ...

From JARED IRMAS, The New York Sun,  13 Mar 2008
Related Topics: David Weprin

Silver To Hold Hearing on Traffic Tax Revenues

Mayor Bloomberg's congestion pricing proposal is facing another obstacle after the speaker of the state Assembly, Sheldon Silver, announced yesterday that he would hold a hearing on how the revenues from the traffic tax would be spent. Mr. Silver, ...

From JARED IRMAS, The New York Sun,  5 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Sheldon Silver,  MTA,  U.S. Democratic Party

Revitalization Is Key Vision Of the MTA

In an hour-long presentation outlining major expansion projects such as the Second Avenue subway, the executive director of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Elliot Sander, laid out plans for a revitalized public transportation system that ...

From JARED IRMAS, The New York Sun,  4 Mar 2008
Related Topics: MTA,  William Henderson

Taxi Fare Hike Eyed Over Congestion Plan

A plan being pushed by a vocal opponent of the mayor's congestion-pricing proposal would have taxi riders paying $4 extra each trip rather than forcing drivers to pay an $8 fee to enter Manhattan below 60th Street. Assemblyman Richard Brodsky, whose ...

From JARED IRMAS, The New York Sun,  28 Feb 2008
Related Topics: Sheldon Silver,  John Gallagher,  MTA

New Columbia Israel Director Denounced 'Occupation'

Officials at a Columbia University department established in 2005 to balance an anti-Israel tilt in Middle Eastern scholarship at the university have appointed as its director a professor who signed a letter labeling Israeli policy "the occupation and ...

From JARED IRMAS, The New York Sun,  28 Feb 2008
Related Topics: Columbia University,  Martin Kramer

Florida Outage Leaves Millions Without Power

More than 3 million South Florida residents were left without electricity yesterday after a fire and equipment failure at a substation in Miami caused a nuclear plant south of the city to shut down, a Florida utility company said. Residents of counties ...

From JARED IRMAS, The New York Sun,  27 Feb 2008

Clemens at Center of Lawsuit Over $750,000 Pink Diamond Ring

A $750,000 pink diamond ring tied to a former Yankees pitcher, Roger Clemens, is at the center of a $5 million legal dispute between two jewelers. A Philadelphia jewelry store, Marshall Asnen Inc., is suing New York jewelry designer Charles Krypell, ...

From JARED IRMAS, The New York Sun,  26 Feb 2008
Related Topics: Roger Clemens,  New York Yankees

Tribe Sues Paper Over Casino Editorials

An American Indian tribe that is seeking to build a casino in upstate New York is suing the New York Post for $60 million because of two editorials the newspaper published that accused the tribe of being a "criminal enterprise" with "an extended ...

From JARED IRMAS, The New York Sun,  20 Feb 2008

London Traffic Tax Hike Prompts N.Y. Concern

Opponents of Mayor Bloomberg's congestion pricing plan fear that a large fee hike just announced in London may be reproduced here. London Mayor Ken Livingstone, who implemented congestion pricing in 2003, said yesterday there would be new fees to the ...

From JARED IRMAS, The New York Sun,  13 Feb 2008
Related Topics: Ken Livingstone,  MTA,  George W. Bush,  Sheldon Silver

Parents Ask for School Cell Phone Ban To Be Lifted

A group of parents asked an appellate court yesterday to lift a ban on cell phones in public schools, which they say violates their constitutional right to keep in contact with their children. One of the judges on the fivejudge panel that heard the ...

From JARED IRMAS, The New York Sun,  7 Feb 2008
Related Topics: Norman Siegel

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