Matthew Schuerman

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Absentee voters are showing up at their borough board of elections office in record numbers. At the Brooklyn office this morning, Jonathan Snyder gave up after being told the wait could be an hour.

SNYDER: A bit annoyed. I'm pretty confident my candidate is going to ...

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With two days to go before Halloween, transit advocates handed out treats to board members of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, as they warned the agency against committing budget-balancing "tricks" on commuters.

REPORTER: Gene Russianoff, with the Straphangers Campaign, handed out fortune cookies, with "fortunes" like, "In ...

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New York City Transit is putting one individual in charge of each of its numbered lines to increase accountability, and hopefully, customer satisfaction.

The transit agency named new line managers that will be in charge of the 1,2,3,4,5 and 6 lines. They are all experienced MTA ...

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Bloomberg Administration officials traveled to Washington Friday to testify before a Congressional committee. At issue was whether the Finance Department manipulated a property appraisal to enable the new Yankee Stadium to get built. WNYC's Matthew Schuerman reports.

REPORTER: The appraisal had to be high enough so ...

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Dozens of community activists, clergy and regular people filled a small City Council hearing room today. Many of them criticized the Bloomberg Administration's proposal for Hunters Point South, a mixed-income housing complex planned for the Queens Waterfront.

About three-fifths of the 5,000 apartments are supposed to ...

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Local government authorities and agencies are beginning to move forward on bond sales that were postponed when the credit crisis began last month. But they're having to make some adjustments. WNYC's Matthew Schuerman reports.

REPORTER: New York State agencies put off borrowing more than $1 billion ...

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Preservation groups are speaking out against a development plan to dismantle and move the old Fulton Fish Market in Lower Manhattan, saying the 42-story hotel and apartment tower in the proposed complex would overwhelm the low-scale historic district. Simeon Bankoff is executive director of an ...

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The Bloomberg administration says landowners at Willets Point, Queens, are intentionally stalling negotiations to sell their property.

REPORTER: At a city council hearing Friday, Deputy Mayor Bob Lieber said opponents postponed closing their deals this week to make it look as if the city had not ...

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Mayor Bloomberg didn't start out as mayor thinking that city officials should be allowed to serve three terms instead of just two. In fact, it was quite the opposite. With the help of WNYC's archivist Andy Lanset, WNYC's Matthew Schuerman dug through our old tapes ...

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The city has convinced three more landowners to sell or trade their land at Willets Point, Queens, to make way for a massive redevelopment of the area. Deputy mayor Bob Lieber said at a City Council hearing today, there are more deals in the works.

REPORTER: ...

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The group says that, by 2010, the city will lose a quarter of its construction jobs, because of the sagging economy and that's the best case scenario.

ANDERSON: The other scenario is there is a hard landing. Budgets are slashed and capital programs are stretched out. ...

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In final rules issued today, the U.S. Department of Transportation says it will auction off the first 58 or 59 slots, or 1 1/2% of the total on January 12th, 2009.

Over the next five years, the department will sell off about 10% of the total ...

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The Port Authority and developer Larry Silverstein are fighting over the World Trade Center site again. Silverstein says he cannot begin building two of his office towers because the Port Authority left a five-foot-wide retaining wall along one side of the bathtub. The wall shores ...

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Built by the Port Authority and located in an area where Silverstin wants to construct an office tower, the wall in question shores up the side of a subway tunnel.

Silverstein says he cannot start his foundation with the wall in the way.

Port Authority executive director ...

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Port Authority Executive Director Chris Ward says he is giving priority to the 8 acre memorial.

In fact, he says the authority will absorb $75 million in extra costs to enable at least part of the memorial plaza to open by the 10th anniversary of the ...

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After years of setting deadlines and pushing them back, a new definitive construction schedule for the World Trade Center redevelopment will come out later this morning. It will replace one devised by Governors Pataki and Spitzer that Governor Paterson has called too optimistic.

A Port Authority ...

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Congressional investigators say federal aviation officials have no legal authority to auction off flight slots, a scheme the government devised to try to cut crippling traffic jams at major airports including Kennedy, LaGuardia and Newark.

The report from the Government Accountability Office comes amid a legal ...

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Mayor Bloomberg's reported plans to extend term limits and run again are getting mixed reviews from the people hoping to take his place. Queens Councilman Tony Avella calls the idea shameful. Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz says he may step out of the mayor's race ...

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The project will take $16 billion to complete, and could add space for express buses and commuter trains.

State Transportation Commissioner Astrid Glynn says it's a better deal because repairing the current bridge, wouldn't save much money, if any.

GLYNN: What we have said after looking at ...