According to a new audit, the Port Authority is “dysfunctional” and like the MTA, particularly irresponsible when it comes to managing money that isn’t theirs. Read more »
Similar to the MTA, the Port Authority tends to spend money like a blackout drunk with a credit card, and then expects the public to bail them out when it comes to paying the bill. So as of Sunday, the agency raised tolls on all its crossings between between New York and New Jersey. Read more »
According to amNY: yes. The freebie paper reports that the drab poor people transportation hub is “getting a facelift” by way of a giant new LCD screen that will wrap around the entire building’s corner facade. It’s described as “a look that’s a little more Times Square than aging bus station.” And that’s an improvement?
A New York Times photo intern was arrested for disorderly conduct and harassment reports the New York Times. Karly Domb Sadof was snapping photos of Paris Hilton at Port Authority on Thursday—yes I know that sounds absurd already—when Port Authority officers started acting more like private security and at the urging of Hilton’s team, tried to prevent her from taking anymore. That’s when the photographer allegedly pushed a Port Authority cop in the face. Speaking of beat up faces, who’s the blond?
That basically what Chris Ward, Executive Director of the Port Authority, suggested on Wednesday at Crain’s New York Business Breakfast Forum. His exact quote: “LaGuardia should not be the gateway for fliers into New York City; it should fundamentally be torn down and rebuilt again.” Read more »
The World Trade Center will continue to be a festering open sore on the city with Mayor Bloomberg, the Port Authority, and slimy developer Larry Silverstein unable to reach an agreement over financing for three (unnecessary) office towers in addition to the alleged “Freedom Tower.” |NYP|
The latest plan for the seriously delayed and shrinking World Trade Center calls for dumping several skyscrapers. The Port Authority is proposing replacing Tower 2 and 3, at 200 and 175 Greenwich Street respectively, with a pair of “stumps,” four or five story buildings for retail use. They also hope to abandon all plans for Tower 5 at 130 Liberty Street, the site of the toxic Deutsche Bank building, leaving just two towers and half the office space originally envisioned. And just because the replacement designs are smaller doesn’t mean they’ll go up any faster. The so-called “stumps” could take a couple years to redesign, pushing completion of the site’s transportation hub past 2014. |NYDN|
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