Caroline Spivack

ICYMI: More than 80% of the NYC's subway former retail spaces are vacant. The hundreds of empty shops aren't helping with the perception of safety in the system. Take a dive into the world of subway retail with my latest for @CrainsNewYork: crainsnewyork.com/transportation…

City building owners are rushing to install solar panels atop their buildings before federal tax credits expire. Once that happens "it won’t be as affordable and not as many people will be able to do it," as one expert put it to me: crainsnewyork.com/climate/solar-…

The @TWULocal100 has quietly championed legislation that would require two workers operate a train. The bill, if signed into law by Gov. Hochul, would be a big setback to the MTA's efforts to reduce labor costs: crainsnewyork.com/transportation…

Mayor Eric Adams' administration is looking to buy as many as 61 privately-owned lots in Brooklyn and Queens to redevelop into new parks, @CarolineSpivack scoops: crainsnewyork.com/politics-polic…

another scoop by @GeringerSameth: NYC's public hospital system, @NYCHealthSystem, has warned staff not to help patients avoid arrest by federal immigration enforcement. It resembles a similar policy by NYU Langone and has unsettled physicians on staff: crainsnewyork.com/health-pulse/h…

Behind New York City's e-bike and moped boom is a little-known ex-delivery worker who has quietly built a micromobility empire. I spent a year looking into him and the freewheeling industry through which he rose. My last story for @StreetsblogNYC streetsblogprojects.org/fly-electric-b…

SCOOP: The Trump admin is laying the groundwork to potentially deny federal transit funding to the @MTA, and other regional transit partners, if local officials do not cooperate with federal immigration actions: crainsnewyork.com/transportation…

We are expecting a widespread significant rainfall, mainly Wed night into Thu night. Not a drought buster, but it will help, especially with ongoing fire weather issues. Our rainfall forecast is around 1" to 1.5" #NYwx #NJwx #CTwx #drought #droughtrelief

Big changes in the works for Central Park's six miles of paved drives: crainsnewyork.com/transportation…

New @CrainsNewYork: 14 nonprofits have contracted with New York City to spend $1 billion or more in taxpayer money. They're barely known to the average New Yorker but play a key role in critical services from shelter to animal care. We profiled each one: crainsnewyork.com/politics-polic…

.⁦@NYCMayor⁩ quietly cuts staff managing city’s urban forests via ⁦@CarolineSpivack⁩ crainsnewyork.com/politics-polic…

Nothing quite says New York to me like walking through the Bryant Park subway corridor to the soundtrack of an acorndinist playing The Godfather theme. That will never get old to me.

Scooplet on the closely-watched lawsuit seeking to block Local Law 97, NYC's landmark building climate law: The state, in a pretty crucial way, has backed the city's appeal crainsnewyork.com/climate/state-…

Extreme heat is expanding steel on the city's 24 moveable bridges — making them nonfunctional, like the Third Avenue Bridge yesterday, in a less obvious consequence of a changing climate: crainsnewyork.com/climate/extrem…

Today is the hottest day of the year so far for #NYC. Central Park recently hit 95 degrees as of 1:43pm. Stay cool out there!

👀 NYT catching up on great reporting from @CarolineSpivack. Check out her story from April on the sad state of subway retail: 80% of former retail spaces are vacant. crainsnewyork.com/transportation…

My guide to where NY's top politicians stand on congestion pricing, with top-notch graphic work by @colinreads and @mahaxahmed: nysfocus.com/2024/07/02/con…

Work has now stopped on the Second Avenue subway expansion, which would have brought the Q to 125th in Harlem, because of the pause on #CongestionPricing. RPA and partners fear a "cascading effect" on other major transit projects in NYC. @CrainsNewYork crainsnewyork.com/transportation…

Hochul said this morning she was confident the 2nd Ave Subway project (which she’s repeatedly touted) would continue despite ‘indefinitely pausing’ the congestion toll that would finance it. MTA said this PM it is pausing all the early construction work — nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/06/18/wor…

"Rejecting the tax leaves no obvious option for shoring up the MTA’s capital budget, which had long been structured around expected revenues from the Manhattan tolling program," things are looking grim for the MTA, via @nick_garber crainsnewyork.com/politics-polic…

"Sources close to the matter say that [MTA CEO Janno Lieber], who has been conspicuously quiet, is strategizing over the fate of congestion pricing, and if the tolling program is set aside entirely, rather than delayed, he may resign" via @CarolineSpivack: crainsnewyork.com/transportation…