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John Nathan Lieber. ( 1961-09-19) September 19, 1961 (age 62) Education. Harvard University ( BA) New York University ( JD) John Nathan " Janno " Lieber (born September 19, 1961) [1] is the head of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) in New York. He was appointed acting chair and CEO in July 2021 and confirmed permanently in January ...
M66 (New York City bus) The M66 constitutes a public transit line in Manhattan. Originally ran by the Comprehensive Omnibus Company, it is now ran by the MTA Regional Bus Operations under the New York City Transit Authority brand, running between the Upper East Side and Upper West Side as one of Manhattan's numerous crosstown bus routes.
Adams, a former transit cop, dialed 911 to report an assault he witnessed while he rode the train to City Hall on Jan. 1. Since then, he pledged more cops will ride the subways, dealt with the ...
A 1980 transit strike in New York City halted service on the New York City Transit Authority (a subsidiary of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority) for the first time since 1966. Around 33,000 members of Transport Workers Union (TWU) Local 100 walked off their jobs on April 1, 1980, in a strike with the goal of increasing the wage for ...
March 22, 1989 – The New York City Board of Estimate is found to be unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of the United States in Board of Estimate of City of New York v. Morris . March 24, 1900 – New York City Mayor Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground on the Interboro Rapid Transit (train pictured) that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
The New York–Dublin Portal (also simply known as The Portal) is an interactive installation created by Lithuanian artist Benediktas Gylys to allow people in New York City and Dublin to interact with each other using two 24-hour live streaming video screens. The second series of installations in Gylys' Portal series, the New York–Dublin ...
The Beach Pneumatic Transit was the first attempt to build an underground public transit system in New York City. It was developed by Alfred Ely Beach in 1869 as a demonstration subway line running on pneumatic power. The line had one stop in the basement of the Rogers Peet Building, near the old City Hall station, and a one-car shuttle running ...
Money room. The money room, in New York City Transit Authority parlance, refers to a formerly highly secure Second floor within the NYCTA headquarters at 370 Jay Street [1] that handled cash collected in the system and recycled tokens formerly used throughout the automated fare collection system. A fictionalized account of the money room, and a ...