Matthew Schuerman

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Officials say they'll stop paying contractors on state construction projects, for at least a week, starting tomorrow. This follows yesterday’s announcement by Gov. David Paterson that the state will delay $2.1 billion in education aid because the state doesn’t have the money.

The temporary state budget ...

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The MTA is letting go of 450 station agents as early as May. Each one earns an average of $75,000, including benefits. Taken together, the layoffs will save $13 million this year during one of the authority’s worst budget crises. Some New Yorkers are already ...

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The Port Authority and developer Larry Silverstein have reached a deal--or at least a deal to get to a deal--allowing the construction of office towers at the World Trade Center to move forward.

Port Authority Chairman Anthony Coscia called it a "framework for coming to ...

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An NYU study finds that the city's building boom was not as intense as it may have looked from underneath a sidewalk scaffold.

Despite years of intense construction activity, the New York region actually ranked eighth among 10 major metro areas in terms of housing growth.

The ...

New York University is planning a massive expansion that will unfold over the next 20 years.

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New York University is planning a massive expansion that will unfold over the next 20 years. According to an individual familiar with the plans, the expansion calls for a new tower at Bleecker Street next to the Silver Towers as well as buildings on Governors ...

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A New York University study finds that Mayor Michael Bloomberg's rezonings concentrate building density in low-income minority neighbhoods, while white neighborhoods’zoning regulations restricted how high or large new buildings could be.

The Furman Center at N.Y.U. looked at 76 rezoning measures that were passed in the ...

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The first part of the new Brooklyn Bridge Park opens this morning. Governor Paterson and Mayor Bloomberg will join Brooklyn officials to cut the ribbon on 6 acres of park out of a total 86 acres that are planned for the site. WNYC's Matthew Schuerman ...

New Yorkers aren’t the only ones who call their buses and subways their “yellow school bus.” Other cities also use mass transit to get their students to school, sometimes just as intensively as in New York. Today, as a group of New York City high schoolers meet with MTA Chairman ...

In his speech at the Atlantic Yards groundbreaking today, Mayor Michael Bloomberg made a comment that many took to be a dig at Gov. David Paterson.

The mayor, who has more than enough money to pay his way for sporting events, was talking about how much he and everyone else ...

A ceremonial groundbreaking has gotten underway for the the Barclays Center -- WNYC's Matthew Schuerman is there and sends this dispatch.

'It's a spectacle by any measure: a huge carpeted tent erected on a dusty empty lot, 70 shovels awaiting a governor or ...

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Developer Bruce Ratner finally got what he’s been waiting seven years for: the groundbreaking of the arena that will house the Nets basketball team.

And it was a grand groundbreaking at that, with several hundred movers and shakers from the city’s interlocking development, government, sports and ...

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After many twist and turns, Mayor Bloomberg, developer Bruce Ratner and rap star Jay-Z, a part-owner of the Nets, are expected to break ground for the basketball arena at the Atlantic Yards site this afternoon. WNYC's Matthew Schuerman has more.

REPORTER: The ground breaking is largely ...

Plus: test your knowledge in the subway-news-quiz!

Call on Port Authority and developer Larry Silverstein to speed up stalled rebuilding effort.

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Several hundred construction workers spent their lunch hour at a rally near Ground Zero to pressure the Port Authority and developer Larry Silverstein to resolve a standoff over the financing of three proposed office towers at the site.

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Union organizing drives might sound anachronistic these days -- many people who are working feel lucky to have a job. But unions are still trying to grow in New York City, even in areas where they have struggled to gain ground, such as government contractors. ...

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The state of New York has taken title to property owned by Daniel Goldstein and other holdouts living in or running businesses in the footprint of the future Atlantic Yards basketball arena.

Judge Abraham Gerges of state Supreme Court in Brooklyn said that all rules were ...

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City Council members are challenging transit officials to justify why they are cutting some bus routes at a hearing today.

In general, New York City Transit said it has targeted bus lines near other mass transit alternatives. But Bronx Council Member James Vacca said several proposed ...

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The MTA announced this morning it would lay off more than 1,000 employees, including up to 500 customer service agents.

A top union official says subway station agents with less than five years experience will likely get the axe.

Maurice Jenkins, vice president of the station division ...