Liam Quigley
@_elkue
photos, news, and hot action! / covering NYC parks & sanitation for @WNYC @Gothamist / [email protected] / mostly on https://bsky.app/profile/elkue.bsky.social
In the future, many of these posts will appear here instead, partially because I am tired of posts from people I follow literally not showing up on the following page here
"Gov. Kathy Hochul plans to relaunch the MTA’s congestion pricing program with a $9 base toll for passenger cars — marking a 40% price reduction from the price previously approved by the MTA, according to four sources briefed on the governor’s plan." gothamist.com/news/hochul-to…
Disc golf enjoyers fought hard to get their first and only course in a NYC park. Now some neighbors want the course torn up and moved gothamist.com/news/disc-golf…
Two mangled citibikes lie at the curb on Vanderbilt Ave after their riders were struck earlier by the driver of this Honda with Pennsylvania plates that has 8 speeding tickets since August. A decal from one of the bikes is on the bumper of the van.
The Elizabeth Street Garden has won yet another lease on life from the appellate court, who granted a stay filed by the garden last month. City Hall spokesperson William Fowler sharply criticizes the decision:
Today is Friday so it's time for a @NYCBIC record I requested in August to be extended for a third time
The Liberty Island trailing suction hopper dredger is at the Brooklyn Navy Yard this week. It's used for dredging up material from the ocean floor and things like that
The first commercial waste zone is still getting set up, years after a law to make the industry safer passed. @NYLPI is out with a new report that finds that safety issues in the industry persist. gothamist.com/news/nyc-is-sl…
The year is 2026. Your fire services are provided by T-Mobile. Text AT&T for fire services. Policing is provided by Wegmans
150 years ago, the Bklyn Union Gas Co & other businesses dumped toxic waste in the Gowanus This century, Nat’l Grid bought Brooklyn Union. Now they’re suing to get others to pay to clean the Gowanus, or they’ll raise rates on consumers (@_elkue) gothamist.com/news/a-legal-b…
I swam in the Gowanus for Gothamist (jk I just interviewed someone who swam in the Gowanus) it's still really polluted btw gothamist.com/news/a-legal-b…
The NYC comptroller Brad Lander (who is running for mayor) stumbled upon Bike Kill so I interviewed him
GET HYPED: The new trash bins are arriving. @HellGateNY reports that more than 100,000 official nyc trash bins have been delivered. Some have been stolen (not mine though) hellgatenyc.com/nyc-trash-cont…
Ten minutes waiting for coffee and six people with dogs have come in. something must be done