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Borough Hall, 1898

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MTA has announced OMNY, the new transit payment system for subways and buses that will replace the Metrocard. The system, which will allow straphangers to use contactless entry via their cellphones, will be phased in starting May 1st. The first line to get the OMNY will be the Lexington Avenue subway line (4,5,6). OMNY stands for One Metro New York and will also be available on Staten Island buses.
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•The new systems are “tap and go”, but you don't even have to tap it, just wave your device or card in the air, in front of the reader, similar to the Oyster card in London, the CharlieCard in Boston or Apple and Google Pay. By 2023 the readers will be in every station.
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•No more long lines – cards can be replenished from anywhere or automatically. –Cash will always be an option and the reduced price fares will continue to work, for those 65 and older and students, but will operate with a new contactless payment method.
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World Trade Center construction, 1970. Designed by Minoru Yamasaki with associate architects Emery Roth & Sons and structural engineer Les Robertson.

Aerial view of Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Can you date this historic photo? *** Last day for 30% OFF fine-art prints with code PREZ30*** #bowery #thebowery #chinatownnyc #nychistory #aerialphotography #municipalbuilding #brooklynbridge #eastvillage #lowereastside #nyc #downtown #urbanism

The federal government is funding $400 million for a flood barrier for Staten Island, or as Crains put it, "the only borough to vote for President Donald Trump is getting a wall." On Tuesday a deal was reached between the feds, city, and state to fund a five-mile system of protective barriers including berms, levees, and walls that will rise to 22.5 feet in certain areas. The barriers will start at #FortWadsworth, just south of the #Verrazzzano and go down to #OakBeach with recreational areas, bike paths and boardwalks along the way. The barriers will protect the eastern shore of Staten Island that was flooded during superstorm Sandy in 2012.

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The Grand Central Depot, circa 1890 and 1900. Grand Central Depot was the first train terminal built on the site at 42nd and Park, built over four decades before the current building. The train yard – occupied by three railroad companies; the NY Central and Hudson River Railroad, the NY, New Haven, and New Hartford Railroad, and the Harlem Railroad – was the largest interior space in the country, with a vaulted roof made of iron and glass.
When it opened in 1871 Grand Central Depot had 170 trains traveling in and out each day. But by the 1890s the city and the railroad industry had outgrown the Depot – 500 trains were using the terminal daily. Additionally, the poor ventilation and the dangerous grade crossings made the need for a new station urgent. After a deadly train crash in 1902 in the Park Avenue Tunnel, The New York Central's chief engineer William J. Wilgus announced a request for proposals to improve the tunnel and terminal. Wilgus envisioned demolishing the current station and building a double level terminal for electric trains only. Grand Central Terminal would open 11 years later and today is the largest* train terminal in the world.

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#MapMondays! The Temporary Parallel Bypass Method for the Brooklyn Queens Expressway and Promenade as proposed by the Brooklyn Heights Association in response to the Department of Transportation's two options as presented to residents for rebuilding the crumbling expressway.
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Both DOT options were awful; traditional lane-by-lane closures causing traffic on local streets, or the "innovative method" of building a temporary six-lane highway on the promenade (the walkway that runs along the top of the BQE in Brooklyn Heights) while the structure underneath is rebuilt. The latter would take less time, cost less and allow for everything to be rebuilt with better access, landscaping, and traffic calming. Either way, the promenade will have to be closed at some point and rebuilt since it is supported by the expressway. The DOT has yet to determine if the BHA proposal, which would require at least 30% of the traditional lane closures and related traffic, is even feasible. Locals agree that temporarily closing the iconic promenade would be devastating but worry about lane closures diverting trucks through local streets. A tunnel or closing the highway altogether were already analyzed and determined to not be feasible.
Either way, it is a bad situation. At least the city is finally stepping up to address the problem after decades of neglect and local leaders passing the problem off to the administration. 👷‍♂️ What do you think should be done with the #BQE?

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NYC, 1913

Aerial photograph of Lower Manhattan including Manhattan Bridge, Municipal Building, Newspaper Row, Woolworth Building and Brooklyn Bridge, 1913.

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Photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White taking a photo atop the Chrysler
Building gargoyles in 1930. Bourke had her photo studio in the
Chrysler Building. The eagle gargoyles were designed to resemble an
actual Chrysler hood ornament.
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