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January 29, 2010 No Comments
The Weekly Carnage
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January 8, 2010 5 Comments
Today’s Headlines
Brodsky's Prediction: State and City Will Step Up and Pay for Student ...
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December 17, 2009 12 Comments
Dear Keith Olbermann: You’re Not Helping
... and not Sheldon Silver, Carl Kruger, Pedro Espada, Richard Brodsky, or any of the myriad electeds who have continually shortchanged ...
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October 23, 2009 2 Comments
Today’s Headlines
... First Impression in NYC Media Blitz Voice Rewards Brodsky's Showmanship With a "Best of 2009" -- But What About 2008? ...
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September 16, 2009 1 Comment
Today’s Non-Primary Headlines
... Gets in on the Jay Walder Compensation Antics, Prompting Brodsky Lecture (NYT) In NYC, Biking to School Is Not a Crime; In Fact, ...
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July 13, 2009 3 Comments
This Week in Livable Street Events [Updated]
... who has recently focused on MTA labor costs; and Richard Brodsky, who was the most vocal opponent of congestion pricing. Museum of the ...
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May 14, 2009 14 Comments
LaHood: NYC’s Congestion Pricing Money Still There for the Taking
... gap, and self-styled watchdogs Malcolm Smith and Richard Brodsky say the new bill will make the MTA "transparent and ...
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April 22, 2009 3 Comments
Does the State Senate’s MTA Plan Pass Environmental Muster?
... the spring of 2008. Remember all the carping from Richard Brodsky and other state legislators about congestion pricing not going through ...
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March 26, 2009 16 Comments
Today’s Headlines
... Force the Issue, Pass a One-House MTA Rescue Package Brodsky, Perkins Intro 'MTA Reform' Bill (Newsday) State Sen. Dilan's ...
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January 14, 2009 9 Comments
Today’s Headlines
... on Austerity Budget Tonight (Post) Post Sneers at 'Brodsky's Baloney' Nine Months Too Late Yankee Stadium Deals Now Campaign ...
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January 1, 2009 15 Comments
The 2008 Streetsie Awards, Part 4
... local media. Of all the reporters that accepted Richard Brodsky's populist claptrap as gospel or zeroed in on $30,000 in travel perks ...
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December 30, 2008 21 Comments
The 2008 Streetsie Awards, Part 2
... You've got to hand it to Westchester Assemblyman Richard Brodsky -- he works hard for his constituents and supporters. Unfortunately for ... City's legislators rolled over and played dead, Richard Brodsky worked his butt off to make sure that New York City's congestion ...
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December 19, 2008 26 Comments
Congestion Pricing vs. Ravitch Plan: Which is Better for the Boroughs?
... Third Avenue Bridge will be a relative bargain for Richard Brodsky's Westchester constituents. It’s easy to dismiss City ...
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December 11, 2008 17 Comments
Today’s Headlines
... Politico) Ravitch Makes His Case to Assembly Members; Brodsky Moderates MTA Critique (NY1, News) Brooklyn Pols Back Hasidic ...
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December 1, 2008 5 Comments
City Traded Parking Spots for Yankee Stadium Suite
... months ago following an inquiry by Assembly Member Richard Brodsky, but the nature of recently uncovered e-mails between the team, the ... from Westchester's faux-populist-in-chief. Mr. Brodsky said what emerges from the e-mail correspondence is a sense of ...
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November 26, 2008 13 Comments
Brodsky: Assembly “Working to Find Partners” for MTA Funding
... about the MTA financial crisis to Assembly Member Richard Brodsky. Here are his responses, received yesterday, shortly after we posted ... you like to see tapped at this point for each?Richard Brodsky: Earlier this year, Speaker Silver and the Assembly were the only State ...
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November 25, 2008 7 Comments
Where They Stand, Or Don’t: The MTA Doomsday Scorecard
... helped kill in 1999. Assembly Member Richard Brodsky acknowledges the MTA needs money, but has kept quiet on where it ...
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November 20, 2008 8 Comments
Dear Mr. Brodsky: What Now?
In today's Times, Richard Brodsky weighs in on the pitfalls of shortchanging capital needs in the face of ... system is gargantuan," said Assemblyman Richard L. Brodsky, a Democrat from Westchester County who is chairman of a committee ... and use them all on the operating side," Mr. Brodsky said. The key words here: "whatever resources may ...
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November 19, 2008 11 Comments
With Transit System Crumbling, Fox 5 Zeroes in on Sander’s Shiny Shoes
... the best the media can do? If so, why not follow Richard Brodsky to work? Or Joan Millman? Or Deborah Glick? Corner one of those guys ...
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October 17, 2008 4 Comments
Name That Bus Route: SKIRT Takes the Shirt
... only provide the illusion of service."), but also The Brodsky ("These 1950's style buses only operate in reverse."), The ...
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September 18, 2008 58 Comments
Sen. Jeff Klein to No Impact Man: “Hands Off My Car, You F–king A–hole”
... the contempt we always suspected the Jeff Kleins, Richard Brodskys and Denny Farrells held for those on the other side of the windshield ...
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August 27, 2008 12 Comments
Is NYC’s “Sustainable Streets” Plan a Communist Plot?
... Westchester Assemblyman and congestion pricing foe Richard Brodsky is Josef Stalin? Will Sadik-Khan be exiled to an upstate gulag when ...
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July 2, 2008 2 Comments
Will Brodsky and Assembly Dems Back Up Their Enforcement Bluster?
... in 2010, as hoped for. Earlier this year, when Richard Brodsky was touting his version of a congestion mitigation plan [PDF], the ... to determine why this provision was singled out). Will Brodsky and the Assembly Democrats who stood with him in February back up their ...
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June 25, 2008 19 Comments
Skelos Ascension Clouds Prospect of Pricing Revival
... proposal. (Even ardent pricing foe Assemblyman Richard Brodsky voted to go ahead with the commission.) As late as April of this year, ...
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May 15, 2008 21 Comments
Revenge of the Free Riders
... one propagator of this populist claptrap was Richard Brodsky, a Westchester Assemblyman who represents the region's wealthiest ... car commuters, average annual income, $176,231. At least Brodsky did a good job standing up for his constituents. That's a hell of a lot ...
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May 14, 2008 15 Comments
Daily News to Congestion Pricing Opponents: “Your Fault”
... than demands for improved transit service. But what of Brodsky, Glick, and Weiner? Or Bearak and McCaffrey? Where are they now that ...
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May 14, 2008 6 Comments
Driver’s Remorse: Tardy Brodsky Delayed by “Accident”
... of justice is served for Westchester Assemblyman Richard Brodsky's contribution to the killing of congestion pricing:Scheduled to appear ... headquarters, congestion pricing foe Assemblyman Richard Brodsky arrived at 7:20 pm, more than halfway through the event. His empty seat ...
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May 9, 2008 26 Comments
Beam Me Across the Street, Scotty
... urban environment, but we can almost hear Richard Brodsky spouting off about the high-falutin' walled-off elitist pedestrian ...
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May 2, 2008 4 Comments
Today’s Headlines
... Arrested for Drunk Driving (NYT, WaPo)Tim Rutten Is L.A.'s Brodsky (LAT via Planetizen)MTA Chair Campaigns to Improve Agency's Image ...
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April 30, 2008 13 Comments
Paul Newell on Congestion Pricing and Reforming Albany
... impacting the quality of education. I understand why Brodsky opposed congestion pricing. I disagreed with him, but I understand ...
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April 24, 2008 45 Comments
Glick’s Excuse: Everything But the Kitchen Sink
... often unfounded criticisms spouted by the likes of Richard Brodsky and Anthony Weiner while adding a few zingers to the canon for good ...
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April 24, 2008 12 Comments
Did Reporters Ever Dig Beneath Brodsky’s Populist Rhetoric?
... profile of congestion pricing's alpha opponent, Richard Brodsky, the New York Times did little to counter the Westchester Assemblyman's ... full of odd editorializing, and appears to reprint some of Brodsky's talking points part and parcel without attribution:Park Avenue co-op ...
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April 24, 2008 17 Comments
Today’s Headlines
... $213M to Implement Pricing on Freeways (LAT)Times Profiles BrodskyCouncil Considers Bill to Change Parade Rules (Gotham Gazette)Queens Bus ...
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April 18, 2008 8 Comments
Electeds Still Need to Hear From Pricing Supporters
... The ball is now firmly in the court of Silver, Brodsky and Weprin, et al. They and the entire Legislature will have to answer ...
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April 16, 2008 20 Comments
What If Pricing Had a Better Name?
... seen as controversial. Did Sheldon Silver and Richard Brodsky care what it was called? I found "congestion pricing" ...
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April 9, 2008 45 Comments
Silver and Assembly Dems Defend Their “Democratic” Process
... conference opposed,” said Assemblyman Richard Brodsky of Westchester, who emerged as the vocal public leader of the ... structure weeds out bad bills and kills them,” Mr. Brodsky explained. “In this case, the issue was so important that the ...
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April 9, 2008 45 Comments
Kossacks Welcome Demise of Congestion Pricing
... countering specious faux-populist criticisms from Richard Brodsky and Anthony Weiner before the plan was ultimately rubbed out in a back ...
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April 9, 2008 7 Comments
Today’s Headlines
... Pricing (NYT)Komanoff's 10 Reasons Pricing Failed -- And Brodsky's Reply (Gristmill)Bloomberg on Silver: "That's Not ...
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April 8, 2008 12 Comments
Gene Russianoff on the MTA’s $17.5 Billion Hole
... is to raise one or more of those taxes." Richard Brodsky has said relying on a broad-based tax is what he ...
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April 8, 2008 32 Comments
Three Questions for Richard Brodsky
... called Assemblyman Richard Brodsky yesterday to get his comments on the demise of congestion pricing. ... mitigation measures surface in the state legislature? Brodsky: Several have already been proposed, including better enforcement ... -- what are some likely alternatives that will be proposed?Brodsky: The Assembly has already passed a small increase in the income tax ...
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April 4, 2008 21 Comments
What Glick’s District Will Lose Without Congestion Pricing
... as part of their commute, according to 2000 Census data.Brodskyite populist posturing would seem especially out of place in these ...
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April 4, 2008 3 Comments
What Your District Loses Without Congestion Pricing
... at the moment, but not so long ago he stood with Richard Brodsky in support of the Westchester pricing foe's $6.50 taxi drop charge ...
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April 4, 2008 36 Comments
God’s Love: We’re Not Against Congestion Pricing
... its kitchen out of this building on Spring Street.Richard Brodsky may have overplayed his hand in his latest attempt to cast congestion ... bane of the less fortunate.As we noted Wednesday, after Brodsky received a letter from the charity God's Love We Deliver asking for a ...
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April 3, 2008 36 Comments
Open Thread: What Are Your Reps Saying About Pricing?
... friends do not own cars, and that the argument that Brodsky types have been making do not hold any water. She agreed with that ...
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April 3, 2008 38 Comments
Glick Worried Pricing Will Make Air Quality Worse
... Lower Manhattan, has come up with a novel twist on Richard Brodsky's call for further environmental review of congestion pricing. Read on ...
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April 2, 2008 21 Comments
Brodsky Presents Dems With a Choice: God’s Love or Al D’Amato
... Brodsky is using this letter to rally opposition to congestion pricing. To ... download this letter that Westchester Assemblyman Richard Brodsky circulated to his fellow Democrats yesterday. In it, Brodsky repeats the debunked claim that congestion pricing is a ...
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April 2, 2008 46 Comments
Brooklyn Assemblyman “Protects Families” From Pricing
... Brodsky may have lost on Monday, but today his colleagues in Albany are ...
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April 1, 2008 4 Comments
NY1 Poll: How do You Want Your Legislator to Vote?
... is on NY1 tonight with Westchester Assemblyman Richard Brodsky. It should be a good show. ...
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April 1, 2008 7 Comments
Parsing the Council Pricing Vote
But seriously folks, here are some quick hits from last night's congestion pricing council victory: All ten Manhattan and seven Bronx council members voted in favor. In Brooklyn the vote was 7-9 against; Queens 5-9, and Staten Island 1-2. Eri ...
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April 1, 2008 24 Comments
Pay Back: Richard Brodsky Proposes Road Pricing for Westchester
... an April Fool's Day post... State Assemblyman Richard Brodsky, a prominent opponent of congestion pricing, introduced his own plan ... initiative. "New York City? Who needs it?" Brodsky said in a press conference this morning with the mayors of Yonkers, ...
