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Bureaucracy Killed a Bronx Busway… and Other Reasons Why We Created Civic Pulse.
A never-realized 2019 proposal to build a busway in the Bronx is the perfect allegory for everything that's wrong with New York City politics—and what…
May 7, 2025
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Astoria is getting a pop-up pedestrian plaza
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