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more about #albany more comments → If_I_Had_a_Poodle: Everything you said about the misallocation of resources (more highways, less mass transit) is true for schools, too Local funding of local transit a... more » Proofer3: Thank you for reminding me how much I love Griffin Dunne, and what an unappreciated film After Hours is. more » badasscat: Fares are simply taxes—incredibly regressive taxes, just like the sales taxes that New York City residents suffer to fund our own transit while subu... more » garbanzo314: Can we also outsource all labor within the MTA to a non-union shop. The TWU has stood in the way of implementing new technology (they fought automated... more » garbanzo314: Originally from the area, but whenever I drive up from NYC and want to take family out for dinner, there are like one or two decent restaurants in the... more » seekingwhat: I'm building an MTA bus depot in Staten Island right now. The stuff I could type here would probably get me fired but... OH MY GOD! THE WASTE!!! more » sensitivitycop: I lived in NYC for 18 year during the Abe Beame, Ed Koch, and David Dinkins years, and still visit NYC 4 times a year. When I do I rely heavily on th... more » LatestBy: Sounds like someone's going to get a DeJohn letter? more » OMG! Ponies!: $205 monthly LIRR pass plus $89 monthly Metrocard equals the reason I now drive. more » ErrolFinch: This post made my day -- that's just how furious I am at the MTA (Most Terrible Assholes). I'm sure if I think hard enough I can come up with a less ... more » Mike Jahn: Albany is a cow pasture with buildings. more » Uncle_Billy_Slumming: Hmm... someone else is on Felix Salmon's frequency today too. First he tweets of Albany, then he tweets of psycho restaurateur: [gawker.com])&utm_co... more » son of spam: Banana rama fo fama more » SuchAndSuch: Good post, except for the throwaway about how the MTA board is trying to get out of the court-ordered wage increases. First off, have you EVER met an... more » Cosmonautical: it's difficult to properly express how happy i am that others are so pissed off about this. i live off the Morgan L, so i'm dealing with it constantl... more » -
#albany
Albany Foodie World Is All About Punching
Steve Barnes (pictured), the Albany restaurant critic who was assaulted by a professional mixed martial arts fighter last year (probably) because of something he wrote, reports today: Albany restaurateurs are going to punch each other. More » -
#rants
New York City Just Gives Up on Subway Service
Did you hear the great news? The MTA will not raise fares! Or cut service! Wonderful! Except none of the headlines say "for just one year." Or "not counting the existing fare increase and de facto service cuts." More » -
#already
Introducing the David Paterson 2010 Campaign
Oh boy. Clinton campaign strategist and avowed Mark Penn-enemy Harold Ickes is running David Paterson's reelection campaign, apparently, so let's all pray for a divisive and lengthy primary battle. (Maybe it can be racially charged, too!) More » -
#parochialnews
Queens Dems Will Not Endorse Lady-Slasher Next Year
Bad news for State Senator Hiram Monserrate. The convicted girlfriend-assaulter will not receive the support of the Democratic party in next year's primary election. More » -
#parochialnews
What's Next For New York's Favorite Face-Slasher?
Face-slashing pol Hiram Monserrate was found not guilty of felony assault, but they got him on a misdemeanor. He'll be sentenced in December. But now his fate rests with Albany Democrats. So he's fine. More » -
#parliamentofwhores
Public Teat Suckled
Self-serving scumbag New York State Senate gridlock-promoter Pedro Espada's son just got a newly-created $120K/year state "intergovernmental relations" job, which, his spokesman confirms, is "not a case of political nepotism." Shut up, whores. [NYP] -
#scumbags
Face-Slashing Pol Will Go To Trial
Felony charges against girlfriend-slashing New York State Senator Hiram Monserrate, a Democrat who briefly caucused with Republicans until the Democrats bought his loyalty back, will not be dropped. More » -
#therealissues
Least Important Crooks in Albany Busted
Turns out that a couple of state workers in Albany hid in some back room smoking weed and selling weed and watching DVDs and passing out on the couch instead of working. And? More » -
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#butdaaaaaad
New York State Senate Losing Their Allowance Until They Can Learn To Stop Being Children
The utterly stupid, ridiculous clusterfuck that's in Albany is the perfect example of why some citizens decide not to pay their taxes. Someone finally realized as much, so they're not getting any more money until they get back to work. More » -
#parochialnews
New York State Senate Might Convene Tomorrow! (Or Not)
So. What's up in Albany? Nothing. Nothing at all. It has actually been too depressing to even occasionally update you. Well, it's also been kind of funny. But now something might happen! More » -
#americasgovernor
Rudy Addresses Albany
Albany is such a joke, the Post photoshopped everyone as scary clowns and the Times handed over its op-ed page to the funniest/scariest clown of all, Rudy Giuliani. More » -
#skullduggery
DA Kidnaps Albany Traitor's Maid
Pedro Espada, the corrupt State Senator who decided to be a Republican the other week, says he gets two votes, because he is so special. And then the Bronx District Attorney kidnapped his housekeeper. More » -
#albany
Face-Slashing Flip-Flopper Is Dem Again
Wonderful news: Hiram Monserrate is a Democrat again! The New York state Senator who famously glassed his girlfriend and whose term cannot end soon enough switched back to caucusing with his party and doomed the Senate to (yet more) gridlock. More » -
#localpolitics
What's Up With the Albany Coup?
New York's fate rests in the open palms of a guy who lives in Westchester but represents the Bronx and who works in a little shithole 130 miles up the Hudson from here. And the guy who slashed his girlfriend. More » -
#editorials
Daily News Not Happy With Albany
Here are the first five paragraphs (don't worry, they are are short, and wonderful) of today's lead editorial in the New York Daily News, "Beneath contempt: Billionaire Tom Golisano is the worst of a vile crew in the Albany cesspool": More » -
#albany
Face-Slasher, Friend Hand State Senate to Republicans
Oh, hey, Democrats no longer control the New York State Senate. Who are our heroic new Republican senators? Transit-hating Pedro Espada Jr. and—wait for it—girlfriend-abusing (accused) criminal Hiram Monserrate! More » -
#crime
Critic-Assaulter Arrested, Albany Safe For Snootery Once Again
Albany restaurant critic Steve Barnes was viciously beaten last October by two thugs he'd never seen before. An arrest has been made! And he's got shadowy connections to the seedy Albany restaurant world! More » -
#scumbags
GF-Slashing Albany Dem Indicted
Sad day for Albany Democrats! State Senator Hiram Monserrate was indicted for slashing his girlfriend's face. More » -
#letters
Governor Paterson's Epic Mash Note to Former Aide
David Paterson: no one likes him anymore, though he's still better than the last, like, 10 governors. We only like him more after reading his insane love letter to his disgraced former aide. More » -
#clips
Upstate Republican Yells At Reporter For Terrible Crime of "Reporting"
Do you want to listen to six minutes worth of proof that journalism sucks? Here is the executive director of a Republican PAC yelling at some poor, polite reporter in Albany. More »
