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City of Mpls seeks to diversify boards and commissions

Courtesy of City of Minneapolis

Are you interested in shaping key policy decisions for the City of Minneapolis? There are more than 50 openings for volunteer-based boards, commissions and advisory committees that advise the City on issues, help develop policy and administer services.

Boards and commissions fall into a handful of categories: appeal boards, development boards, general advisory boards and special service districts (defined areas within the city with special services). Appointments to boards and commissions are made twice a year: in the spring and fall.

Minneapolis’ appointed boards and commissions are becoming more inclusive with a steady increase in residents of color serving. A new study shows that the City has met its race diversity benchmark with board and commission members within 80 percent of the city’s demographics.

Thirty-three percent of the City’s board and commission members are people of color, whereas the population of Minneapolis is 36 percent people of color.

The City is still in pursuit of more diverse representation in its appointed boards and commissions with more high school and technical school graduates; renters; and people ages 18-24.

There are 77 open positions on 10 City boards and commissions listed below:

● Animal Care & Control Advisory Board. (Apply by April 19.)

● Census Complete Count Comm. (Open until filled.)

● Neighborhood and Community Engagement Commission. (Apply by April 12.)

● Pedestrian Advisory Comm. (Apply by April 19.)

● Racial Equity Community Advisory Comm. (Apply by April 12.)

● Southside Green Zone Council. (Apply by March 30.)

● Upper Harbor Terminal Community Planning and Engagement Comm. (Apply by April 14.)

● Violence Prevention Steering Comm. (Open until filled.)

● Workplace Advisory Comm. (Apply by April 12.)

● Zoning Board of Adjustment. (Apply by March 30.)

For more info, go to minneapolismn.gov/boards/openings, call 612-673-2216 or email [email protected].

This article originally appeared in the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder.

Source: https://www.blackpressusa.com/city-of-mpls-seeks-to-diversify-boards-and-commissions/

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Coconut Cacao Pancakes made with Califia Farms Almondmilk

PANCAKES! Do you remember when I was the queen of #glutenfree pancakes?! Two-ingredient, three-ingredient, FOUR and more… I made them all! Until I discovered my smoothie obsession and put my pancake game on pause. WELLLL, it’s time to spruce up my pancake collection… and what’s a better way to do so than by adding a little cacao into the mix?! Introducing my Coconut Cacao Pancakes! With a special thank you to Califia Farms for saving me on a day-to-day with their incredible dairy-free Almondmilk.

What You Will Need:

1 Cup Almond Flour 1/4 C Coconut Flour 1 T Honey 2 T cacao powder (TRY 2T to start!) 1/4 Cup + 1 T Unsweetened Vanilla Califia Farms Almondmilk 4 Eggs 1/2 tsp Baking Soda pinch of salt 1 tsp Vanilla

What You Will Do:

In a bowl, combine almond flour, coconut flour, baking soda and salt. In a separate bowl, combine Califia Farms Almondmilk, eggs, honey, and vanilla. Pour wet ingredients into dry ingredients and stir until totally combined. Add cacao, and stir! Spray a heated skillet with coconut oil spray. Pour batter into 3″ diameter circles on your skillet (should be able to make 4 at a time). Let the pancakes cook for ~1 minute, or until they start to bubble/firm on top and are firm on the bottom. Flip and cook for ~30 seconds! Stack your pancakes and top with melted chocolate chips or chocolate sauce (NECESSARY), and more toppings of your choosing! (I added more honey!)

Enjoy!

Source: https://nobread.com/recipes/coconut-cacao-pancakes-made-with-califia-farms-almond-milk

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Yesterday’s Snowfall Toppled Trees Around the Lower East Side [PHOTOS]

Yesterday’s late-fall snowstorm (aka “Snowvember”) had trees falling around the Lower East Side.

Over on Norfolk Street, the weight of the wet snow-pack toppled several large limbs at around 5pm, smashing into parked cars and blocking southbound traffic below Stanton Street. (Video below.)

Firefighters quickly responded with the chainsaws to clear the debris.

One person reportedly suffered a minor injury.

A few blocks over on Ludlow Street, meanwhile, another tree fell down directly in front of Ludlow House. Similar scene, similar sight.

And back to Norfolk Street…

Source: https://www.boweryboogie.com/2018/11/yesterdays-snowfall-toppled-trees-around-the-lower-east-side-photos/

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Conception Art Show

We are currently accepting artists for our one day event in NYC Thursday, February 21st. Join us for a fun night of networking, displaying and selling your work. We feature painters, sculptors, photographers, mixed media artists as well as specialty wood, glass and metal artisans.

To submit your work/be contacted to have your questions answered personally please go to www.conceptionarts.com and choose “submit work”. Our staff will be in touch ASAP.

Source: http://www.artinnewyorkcity.com/2019/01/01/conception-art-show/

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jetBlue – $306: New York – Grenada. Roundtrip, including all Taxes

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Artist Duo Debut Powerful Joint Exhibition “Dislocation/Reclamation” at North of History Gallery

“Dislocation/Reclamation,” a new 32-work exhibit by artists Rebecca Allan and Richard Kooyman, debuts at the Gene Kaufman-owned pop-up gallery, North of History this month. Allan and Kooyman address the interrelated yet distinct issues of suppression and invisibility of women in history, tapping into their traditional training while bringing a modern understanding of female figures, both literally and figuratively.

Allan’s drawings of native plants alongside abstract paintings of the landscape, and Kooyman’s portraits of women retrieved from their “absence” in Classical Western art make for a powerful pairing. Allan’s work focuses on the fragile connections of plant species to their particular habitats, while Kooyman’s work crops out the patriarchal imagery in historical Western art, to redefine the political and aesthetic vitality of female actors through a contemporary lens.

Allan observes: “What visitors will see in our exhibition is how we reintroduce women to being central figures in various scenarios, historically versus today. While both Richard and I are classically trained painters, we also share an understanding and appreciation for reimaging roles through our collective work.”

On the evening of October 23rd, music and art will converge. The exhibition will be elevated by a special performance by pianist Terry Eder and composer Laura Kaminsky, where the experience will be enhanced, as each piece will be shown within a previously undiscovered context.

WHAT/WHEN: Dislocation/Reclamation Grand Opening on Tuesday, October 18th, 6-8PM AND Performance of works by Laura Kaminsky, by pianist Terry Eder on October 23rd, TIME

WHERE: North of History Gallery, 445 Columbus Avenue at 81st Street

COST: Free and open to the Public. To find out more information, please visit www.northofhistory.com.

Source: http://www.artinnewyorkcity.com/2018/10/14/artist-duo-debut-powerful-joint-exhibition-dislocation-reclamation-at-north-of-history-gallery/

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New York council speaker wants city control of MTA's subways - Bond Buyer

New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson on Tuesday proposed a municipal takeover of mass-transit operations within the five boroughs from the state-run Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

"State control is not working," Johnson told an overflow crowd during his State of the City address at LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, Queens.

Johnson's comments, outlined in a 104-page report called "Let's Go," marks the latest hand grenade in decades of dispute between state and city over transit funding and operations.

The state legislature would have to approve the proposal, which would feature a new agency called Big Apple Transit.

"I see too many questions for this to work right now," said Howard Cure, director of municipal bond research for Evercore Wealth Management. "A lot of this requires the state to pass off to the city control of taxing authority and construction, and I don't see that happening."

Cure cited logistical problems related to debt transfer and subsidies related to transit and commuter rail revenue.

Johnson assailed the MTA, one of the largest municipal issuers with roughly $41 billion in debt, calling it a "Frankenstein's monster."

According to Johnson, recent tax-law changes require keeping the MTA around long enough to finish servicing its current debt.

Fares, tolls and certain dedicated taxes would first flow through the legacy MTA to service that debt before flowing back to Big Apple Transit and Long Island and Metro-North commuter railroads. BAT and the railroads, not the MTA, would issue bonds. That, said Johnson, would assure that existing MTA debt "will be responsibly addressed," while freeing the new system to make capital improvements.

Johnson's analysis assumes the MTA would continue to issue the roughly $12 billion of debt to close out the MTA's current 2015-2019 capital plan, while the new authority would issue subsequent borrowing.

"We would also expect any revenue pledged directly to BAT, combined with any remaining MTA-pledged revenue, to fund BAT's operating budget and service its debt," the report said.

This arrangement, he said, cited the need for sufficient new funding sources. "Without this, the new authority's credit rating would suffer and borrowing costs would grow," said Johnson.

Capital spending would fall under the purview of the city's capital plan. The mayor would be accountable for BAT, with a dedicated deputy mayor also responsible for oversight. A new board, said Johnson, could reflect interests of transit riders rather than business professionals.

"Transit is the lifeblood of New York City and it is in crisis," Johnson said. "Our economy lives and dies on how people move around."

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's response was predictable.

“The city already owns the New York City transit system," said his communications director, Dani Lever.

Under MTA bylaws, the governor picks the MTA chairman and controls a plurality of board seats. Cuomo in the past three years has extended his influence on the authority and last week called for further tightening his grip through the creation of an uber-oversight board and aligning MTA board appointments to match political terms.

By contrast, New York's mayor controls but four of the 17 MTA board seats.

One exception to recent state control was the bond-financed extension of the No. 7 westward from Times Square to Hudson Yards, which Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration coordinated.

Johnson also implored state lawmakers in Albany to pass a congestion pricing plan for Manhattan, which Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio have jointly endorsed. "If Albany does not approve congestion pricing, the City Council will," Johnson said.

Gov. Nelson Rockefeller and Mayor John Lindsay bickered over control of the authority in the 1960s, with Rockefeller prevailing and unifying separate subway systems under the state-run MTA in 1968.

Rockefeller took over the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority, with its toll and bridge money backstopping subway financing. It also marked the end of the long career of city uber-commissioner Robert Moses.

Originally, the subway was privately owned. The city opened its own IND line opened in 1932, and under Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, assumed control of the entire system in 1940. In 1953, the subways were ceded to a new entity, the New York City Transit Authority, now an MTA unit.

Source: https://www.bondbuyer.com/news/council-speaker-wants-city-control-of-new-york-subways

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From Sweat Shop to Sumptuous Living - 44 Lispenard Street

Not long after New York's labor force returned from fighting in the South a building boom engulfed the Tribeca area as vintage homes and shops were replaced by tall loft buildings. Among the most prolific of the architects working in the area was Isaac F. Duckworth, who routinely made use of the increasingly popular cast iron facades. In 1866 he was hired by Emanuel Ehlfelder to design a five story structure on the site of a one-story brick building at No. 44 Lispenard Street.

Ehlfelder had made his fortune as a merchant of "fancy goods and trimmings." He intended to continue his business at his Broadway address, erecting the Lispenard loft as an investment. Completed in 1867, Duckworth had turned to the relatively new French Second Empire style. Flat Corinthian pilasters separated the openings of the storefront, while the identical upper floors--each defined by prominent cornices--featured flat-arched openings with curved corners and paneled piers. The upmost, or terminal, cornice incorporated an arched pediment which announced "ERECTED 1866."

(Interestingly, Duckworth would recycle the foundry molds, creating identical structures at No. 315-317 Church Street, No. 54 Lispenard Street, and No. 38 Lispenard Street.)

Ehlfelder's new building filled with a variety of tenants. Among the first was M. Bleha, listed as "manufacturer and importer of artificial flowers, ostrich and fancy feathers." His listing in The Merchants' Directory in 1867 promised "Feathers cleaned and repaired equal to new."

Other initial tenants were dry goods dealer Emanuel Buchstein, silk merchants Despres, Hartley & Co., and cloak manufacturer S. Heineman & Co. Like some other businessmen in the area, all three would have problems with burglars and thieves

The first to be burglarized was Buchstein. Soon after he moved his operation into the building, on the night of July 8, 1867, thieves broke into his space making off with four pieces of cloth valued at $300--more than $5,000 today. Detectives quickly nabbed Charles Mayflower and Henry Schleabach who were found guilty and sentenced to four years and six month in the State Prison exactly one month later.

At the time of the crime construction was nearing completion on No. 42 Lispenard, next door. Five months later, at around midnight on December 11, Police Office Kerns noticed a "suspicious individual" within the construction site. When Kerns moved in to investigate, he became the target of loose bricks. Officer McInerny, responding to Kerns's whistle, fired two shots at the trespasser, who jumped down 17 feet and tried to escape, but was immediately captured.

Inside the uncompleted building the officers found bundles of silk and other goods from Despres, Hartley & Co., later valued at more than $25,500 in today's dollars. Inside No. 44 other goods had been packed up, ready for removal. The New York Herald identified the burglar as "a young Frenchman named Alphonse Deplechon and reported "It is supposed that Deplechon had some confederates in the burglary, but they managed to make their escape."

In the meantime, S. Heineman & Co. seems to have been doing well. On July 9, 1868 it advertised "Wanted--A few first class operators on W. & W. [sewing] machines, accustomed to work on cloaks." And a year later it was again increasing its staff, promising "good pay and constant employment to competent hands."

S. Heineman & Co. was the victim of crime in the fall of 1870; not by burglary but a slick 15-year old and an irresponsible mailman. Augustus Mockers offered to deliver some of letter carrier Thomas W. Parson's mail, including an envelope addressed to S. Heineman & Co. Instead, he opened the letters and removed anything of value, including the $16 draft (about $300 today) made out to Heineman & Co. The teen discovered that stealing from the mails was a bad idea when it was not S. Heineman & Co. who landed him in court, but Special Agent James W. Taylor of the Post-Office Department.

At the same time another tenant was having problems. Wm. Maas & Co. dealt in novelties, and in the winter of 1870 had been "constantly missing small packages of goods" little by little for months. Simultaneously, two other novelty dealers in the immediate neighborhood were experiencing identical losses. Detective Field concocted a trap to discover the culprit. In February 1871 he hid in the store and waited. The New York Times reported that he "detected the charwoman, named Catharine Lehan, in the act of stealing a small quantity of cheap jewelry." She was arrested and in her rooms on Watts Street the detective found "a large quantity of miscellaneous goods which had been stolen from the stores in which she had been employed."

By 1875 linen dealer and accessory maker Emil S. Levi was in the building. That year he interviewed potential workers in his office for his social club. An advertisement in The New York Herald on February 18 read "Wanted--A caterer (German) for a first class club, composed of over 230 members. Applicants call on S. Levi, 44 Lispendard st."

Levi's business was doing well enough that he needed a manager the following year. In June 1876 he was looking for "Forewoman on Ladies' Collars and Cuffs." He shared the building at the time with Isidor Rosenthal, woolens dealer, and Isidor Bloom, maker of ladies underwear.

In 1878 Bloom's business failed and the courts named Joseph Biernoff its assignee. Within months he had formed Biernoff & Livingston with Lewis M. Livingston, at the same address. A want ad on August 8, 1879 suggests that they had turned the old firm around. "Wanted--Experienced hands on all kinds of ladies' underwear; study work."

At the same time S. & G. Lorsch was in the building. The firm manufactured children's dresses and infants' robes.

Dry goods and apparel firms would continue to call No. 44 home over the decades. In the 1885 Bischoff & Rodats, "embroidery material," moved its offices and salesroom here. Founded in 1835, its mills and factory were in Hamburg, Germany. New York's Great Industries called the firm in 1885 "a house of standard and in fact world-wide reputation."

As the 1890's neared, S. & M. Stern, cloak and jersey maker, was here, as were woolens dealer M. McCrossan and Berg Brothers Co., "fancy goods wholesalers." (An overheated register caused a scare for M. McCrossan on February 2, 1889, when it sparked a small fire.)

Leo Moses had been a traveling salesman for S. & M. Stern for two years at the time. His territory engulfed parts of New England and Canada. On October 21, 1889 he boarded the steamer Cumberland headed, according to Fur Trade Review, to Eastport, Maine. He never made it there. When the vessel arrived at St. John, New Brunswick the following day the 55-year old was found dead in his stateroom.

Neither foul play nor suicide was suspected. Before boarding the Cumberland Moses had sent a letter to the office with orders and confirming he had received his pay in the mail. The esteem in which he was held by the firm was evidenced when Solomon Stern, senior partner, accompanied Moses's nephew to St. John's to recover the body.

Berg Brothers Co. hired 14-year old Joseph Silver as an errand boy in 1890. His short-lived employment ended when he was fired in June that same year. It was not the last the firm would hear of the enterprising lad, however. As The New York Times worded it, "he had learned more than how to run errands."

Within a week or two Berg Brothers Co. began receiving invoices from the Clark Spool Thread Company. On July 20 The Times reported "A watch was set and Silver came to grief when he presented an order apparently signed by Berg Brothers calling for $38 worth of goods. It is thought that he obtained fully $400 worth of goods before his scheme was discovered."

Berg Brothers Co. and S. & M. Stern were joined in 1891 by Jacob Seligman, shirts, and I. Goodman, makers of "wrappers and tea gowns." The latter's operation was substantial, employing 52 workers, only five of which were men. Included in the work staff were 20 females under 21, two under 16, and one "child who cannot read or write English." They worked 10 hours per day, according to the State Factory inspector that year. Jacob Seligman's factory would remain in the building for more than a decade.

Another clothing firm here at the turn of the century was Levin & Zutalove, run by Meyer Levin, Jefferson M. Levy and Bernard Zatulove. The trio provided what was apparently a most unpleasant working environment. In 1902 all three were individually cited for "failure to clean, disinfect and ventilate water closets."

Surprisingly, Levy was a well-respected politician and former Congressman. He soon left Levin & Zutalove and partnered with former Mayer Smith Ely to form the National Novelty Clothing Co. The shirt-making firm also took space in No. 44 Lispenard. A change of name did not improve Levy's practices, however. In 1908 he was cited for "failure to provide water closet for female employees" and for "failure to ventilate and screen and keep in sanitary condition water closets at premises 44 Lispenard st."

Levy was persuaded to run for Congress again that year. The disgusting facilities in his factory became an issue. On August 9, 1908 The New York Times reported "In reference to the report that he had been arrested for violating the factory laws at 44 Lispenard Street, the headquarters of the National Novelty Clothing Company, ex-Congressman Jefferson M. Levy said yesterday that he was not the President of the company, but simply a part owner of the property." He told reporters that "alterations requested by the factory inspectors were being carried out."

Presumably with improved restroom facilities, the National Novelty Clothing Co. was still in the building in 1910 when fire broke out on May 16. Berg Brothers Co. suffered $15,000 in damages and National Novelty Clothing and Epstein & Brother lost a combined $10,000. The total in damages would equal about about $665,000 today.

Berg Brothers would stay at No. 44 at least through 1914. Following the fire it was joined by S. Hollander & Son, makers of children's wear and dealers in bridal accessories.

The Millinery Trade Review, July 1911 (copyright expired)

About the time that Berg Brothers left the building, a far different type tenant moved in. Nicholas E. Marcoglou was a tobacco dealer and manufacture of Arabesca cigarettes. His packaging drew the legal ire of Junius Parker, another manufacturer, in 1915. Parker's letter to Marcoglou, dated September 1, complained in part of the "noticable, and, as we thought, unquestionable resemblance of these packages to our Pall Mall cigarettes." Despite the conflict, which ended up in court, Marcoglou remained in business at No. 44 at least through 1921.

In 1920 two firms leased the building, the Efanef Fur Dyeing Co. and the Columbia Doll & Toy Co. Only a few months later Columbia Doll & Toy Co. purchased the property. The toy manufacturer leased space over the coming years to a mixed bag of tenants including the Signode System, Inc., which made strapping for textile bales and boxes; and the Grand Union Equipment Company, dealers in soft goods.

Like so many of its predecessors in the building, Grand Union Equipment Company was the victim of extensive theft beginning in 1930. Over a period of years inventory mysteriously disappeared. Then, in October 1934, the firm's president, Samuel Sackett, dropped into Frank J. Wolfram's engraving shop next door at No. 46. He happened to notice towels bearing his label there. He notified police who obtained a search warrant for Wolfram's furnished room at No. 135 East 104th Street. Not only did they check Wolfram's, but all 95 of the rooms in that building. After a five-hour search, they determined that "virtually all of the furnishings in the house" had been stolen from the Grand Union Equipment Company," according to The New York Times on October 30. Wolfram had hired burglars to make off with an estimated $20,000 in goods over the years. The value of the haul would equal about $366,000 today. Even as the garment district moved north of 34th Street there was at least one hanger-on on No. 44. Lichiman & Son Mfg. Co., makers of children's wear, was here in the early 1940's. When the building was sold to the newly-formed 44 Lispenard Street Corporation in October 1942, The New York Times reported that the building would "be altered by the buyers for their general merchandise business."

Throughout the decades of varying use, the cast iron facade remained essentially unaltered. In the mid-1990's two art galleries--Thicket and Kurt Mundahl--moved in, signifying the arrival of the Tribeca rebirth. A renovation completed in 2018 resulted in one loft residence on the second floor and a sprawling triplex above. That 3,000 square foot residence was offered for sale in 2018 for $7.05 million. photographs by the author

Source: http://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2018/12/from-sweat-shop-to-sumptuous-living-44.html

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KOMANOFF: Good Tidings for Congestion Pricing From Governor Cuomo

Gov. Andrew Cuomo bolstered congestion pricing with a crafty jab and a solid punch in his State of the State address yesterday. The combination bodes well for finally getting a robust toll plan through the legislature by the close of the budget session on March 31.

The governor’s crafty jab was to shape his toll proposal as a revenue target rather than as a particular set of toll rates. Not only does that keep the focus on the gain (revenue for transit) and not the pain (“They’re making me pay this stinkin’ toll?”). It also serves to discourage the legislature from undermining the eventual toll proposal with carve-outs for select roadway users, since any revenue shortfalls would have to be made up by raising toll rates somewhere else.

Gov. Cuomo started a new push for congestion pricing during his State of the State address on Tuesday.

The solid punch is the revenue target itself: The governor called for it to be sufficient to bond $15 billion in transit investment. Using the customary 15-to-1 “debt service ratio,” whereby each dollar’s worth of annual revenue can service 15 dollars of debt, his target requires that the congestion tolls net $1 billion in annual revenue.

That billion dollars will add up to even more dollars, for two reasons:

First, the $1-billion target pertains only to the cordon toll on cars and trucks. It explicitly excludes the surcharges on for-hire vehicles (yellows, Ubers, Lyfts, etc.) that must be part of comprehensive congestion pricing. These will add hundreds of millions a year, perhaps a half-a-billion or even more, as I discuss below.

Second, the implied $1 billion a year revenue target is net of toll-administration costs. Those will almost certainly exceed $100 million a year.

For comparison, let’s look at one of the most robust versions of congestion pricing laid out a year ago in the governor’s Fix NYC report — what I’ve dubbed the Fix NYC Higher-Range Plan. The cordon toll part of that plan would raise $1.01 billion annually ($430 million from East River bridge tolls, $580 million from the 60th Street tolls). When we take account of toll-administration costs, the governor’s message yesterday actually surpasses the high end of Fix NYC.

As for charges on for-hire vehicles: As Streetsblog readers know, I’ve sketched a plan that would charge FHV’s for every minute they’re carrying a fare in the Manhattan taxi zone (south of 96th Street). Ubers and Lyfts would pay an additional “trawling surcharge” for each minute they hang out in the zone waiting to be pinged — a vexing contributor to gridlock.

A surcharge program that equalizes yellows’ and Ubers’ “congestion causation” with that of private cars could raise more than $700 million a year ($460 million from Uber/Lyft, $270 million from yellow cabs) in new annual revenue. Getting such a program in place of the surcharges the legislature rushed through last March (which are now tied up in court) needs to be a priority for pricing/transit advocates.

Is there a cloud to the big silver lining I’m seeing in the governor’s address? Some are pointing to the proviso in the executive budget deferring the startup of the cordon tolls to 2021. But everyone schooled in city and state hardball politics has always assumed a two-year buildup, not just to design and build the tolling infrastructure, but to fend off litigation. In that light, a 21-month delay to Jan. 1, 2021 (assuming the bill is passed and signed on March 31) is no great concession.

What should concern transit advocates is the possible watering down of the governor’s $15-billion target by the legislature — especially when key Democrats can’t or won’t articulate a defense of congestion pricing.

Case in point: During new Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins’s turn Wednesday morning on the Brian Lehrer show, a caller fretted on behalf of an acquaintance who commutes to the central business district by car from the Bronx. Stewart-Cousins toyed with the idea of graduating the toll by income, ignoring not just the administrative costs or the lack of a sliding scale on other tolls (and transit fares), but the benefit to the Bronx commuter and all other drivers of a faster commute as some trips get priced off the streets and highways — not to mention that revenue lost at the bottom must be made up at the top to stay on track to the $15 billion.

(Lehrer didn’t help either, with his inane reference to de Blasio’s millionaire’s tax as “a possible alternative” to congestion pricing when it would raise only half as much revenue and achieve none of the traffic improvements.)

Congestion pricing has never lacked for merits — or, lately, for broad public support. It has lacked a political champion, someone who understands it, wants it and will fight for it. Judging from yesterday’s event, we now have one: Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

The governor’s budget message may be downloaded here. The section dealing with congestion tolling is on pp. 295-306.

Source: https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2019/01/16/komanoff-good-tidings-for-congestion-pricing-from-governor-cuomo/

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Another Benefit of Congestion Pricing? Commuters Will Have Way More Time

Congestion pricing will save money and it will save lives — but it will also save New Yorkers hundreds of hours of stressful commuting.

A new analysis by TransitCenter revealed just how much time: 110 hours per year in unnecessary delays for a typical commute from Jackson Heights to the West Village on the E train, 43 hours per year for a commute from the South Bronx to Canal Street on the 6 train, and 36 hours for a C train commute from East New York to Downtown Brooklyn.

The pro-transit group, which supports congestion pricing as a crucial revenue stream for the cash-strapped MTA, hopes the numbers will pressure outer-borough lawmakers who are reluctant to support tolling drivers even though doing so would benefit the vast majority of their constituents who use transit every day (fact sheet below). The analysis was based on existing wait times on platforms, delays, excess “buffer time” that commuters build into their rides and previously unreleased train arrival data from the MTA.

Those 110 hours, for example, “could mean saving $2,000 in child care costs,” said Mary Buchanan, a researcher with the group. “That’s enough time to make breakfast for your kids in the morning or read to them at night. … And that’s 110 hours you won’t spend fretting about whether you’ll be late because your train was delayed.”

New York City Transit President Andy Byford has put forward a $40- to $60-billion plan to rehabilitate transit across the board, including a subway system burdened by 1930s-era signals across multiple lines. The TransitCenter numbers don’t even take into account time savings that could be achieved if buses are moving faster, thanks to congestion pricing, dedicated lanes or improved enforcement against drivers who block transit, which Mayor de Blasio has recently promised. (Riders Alliance did its own study of the hours that bus riders will save.)

But very little of the so-called “Fast Forward” plan can be achieved without the $15 billion in bonding power created by congestion pricing.

In its most eye-popping statistics, TransitCenter singled out several opponents of the tolling scheme to demonstrate how horrible their constituents’ lives are right now. Queens State Senator Leroy Comrie’s 25,000 subway-riding constituents, for example, would collectively save 838,000 hours per year. Neighboring Senator Joe Addabbo’s subway riders would collectively save more than 1 million hours per year.

Yet both oppose congestion pricing, even though a tiny fraction of residents of their district regularly commute by car into the congestion zone. That opposition appalls supporters of the tolling scheme because it suggests that Comrie, Addabbo and other opponents are simply bad Democrats.

“Fast Forward helps the outer boroughs more than Manhattan,” said Assembly Member Bobby Carroll of Brooklyn. “IN my district, if you’re going to work and the F train shuts down, you have nowhere else to go. So this is the plan for the outer boroughs! It is insane that Andy Byford and others haven’t come out and made that clear. Fast Forward is the way we help working class people in the boroughs. I don’t know why they aren’t shouting that from the rooftops.”

Many have been. But the message is not being received.

Senator Roxanne Persaud of Queens said that she “has some concerns” about tolling Manhattan-bound drivers because her district is a “transportation desert,” said her spokesman Matthew D’Onofrio.

“Many residents drive,” he added. “At this time, she is still looking into what’s best for her constituents.”

What is best for her constituents is transit. According to data compiled by the Tri-State Transportation Campaign, three percent of Persaud��s commuters regularly drive into the central business district of Manhattan, while the majority take transit to work. And in Persaud’s disadvantaged district, the median income of drivers is more than $13,000 per year higher than that of transit riders.

Meanwhile, a new analysis by CHEKPEDS, the Chelsea-based pedestrian group, showed that Persaud’s driving constituents would save 70 minutes per week, or 58 hours per year. That data was built on research from transportation analyst Charles Komanoff.

The group’s analysis also showed that congestion pricing would save 71 lives currently lost to road crashes and result in 17,000 fewer injuries in its first two years.

“Achieving such significant reduction in crashes without having to wait years and spend millions of taxpayers’ dollars is an opportunity we cannot miss,” said Christine Berthet, CHEKPEDS co-founder.

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Source: https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2019/02/06/another-benefit-of-congestion-pricing-commuters-will-have-way-more-time/

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BOOK REVIEW: Dallas Weekly Publisher James Washington, Releases Book of Popular Columns

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia

Sometimes words alone cannot convey meaning and feelings the way we’d like them to, Dallas Weekly Publisher James Washington wrote in one of his popular “Spiritually Speaking” Columns for BlackPressUSA.com.

“Trust for example. The reference point for my meaning is “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all things acknowledge Him and He will make your paths straight,” Washington wrote, citing a passage from the book of Proverbs (chapter 3, verses 5-6).

As he has become well-known for, Washington provided his readers with a thorough explanation – one that likely encouraged and built up many.

“Trust is such a complex thing. Have you ever been betrayed by someone in whom you had total trust? Have you been able to totally trust another person since? You can see how easily misplaced trust puts you in a terribly vulnerable place. It’s uncomfortable. It’s abnormal. It ain’t fun,” Washington said.

Many argue that James Washington’s style of journalism and talent for delivering simple straightforward advice is tailor-made for a book. And now, Washington has obliged, penning the new book, “Spiritually Speaking: Reflections for and from a New Christian,” available on Amazon.com.

The 258-page book is written to give spiritual insight to the New Christian, Washington said.

It is not based on doctrine but rather unquestioned faith; the kind that answers the question, “Why me?” and understands the answer is and always has been “Why not you?” he said.

“Spiritually Speaking: Reflections for and from a New Christian,” is a collection of some of the columns Washington has written under the heading, “Spiritually Speaking.”

Each week, millions of readers find that they can easily relate to Washington’s prose, which is as thought-provoking as it is rich in spiritual wisdom.

“This week allow me to talk about freedom,” one of Washington’s columns began. “The freedom I’m talking about is the freedom afforded you when you come to Christ. There is something quite liberating when you know or realize that you’ve been, as they say, ‘set free.’”

Even though he writes regularly for the printed and digital press, writing a book hadn’t always been on Washington’s radar. “It was a suggestion from a very good friend who reads the column regularly,” Washington said. “I know it was not something that ever occurred to me and then I asked a few people who wholeheartedly agreed that it was a good thing,” he said.

“I never knew how much support [the book] had until I began receiving emails for markets around the country who read the columns in National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) newspapers,” Washington said.

The NNPA is the trade organization that represents African American-owned newspapers and media companies throughout the country, providing authors like Washington the opportunity to reach all 47 million people of African descent in the United States — along with the millions of others that read NNPA member content online and in print each week.

In addition to his family and supporters, Washington drew inspiration from a host of other people and places. “Inspiration comes from a myriad of sources; some from the pulpit, some from Bible study, but mostly from life situations,” he said.

“Many columns have come from simple meditation, prayer and my Bible’s concordance,” Washington said.

When asked whether there’s a primary or underlying message to be taken from his columns and book, Washington said it’s a difficult question because he doesn’t view himself as a minister.

“I am just a sinner who has come to grips with the blessing of being able to write. I began this journey to publicly declare this talent as a gift from God,” Washington said.

“The result is personal and public evidence that God is indeed in charge. Anything that results from this declaration is His doing, including my first book. I’m just doing what I am led to do. It is truly humbling and amazing to see how folks are responding. I am overwhelmed at times,” he said.

A book signing for “Spiritually Speaking: Reflections for and from a New Christian,” is scheduled for Sunday, July 21, at First Baptist Church in East Point Georgia. Donald Suggs, publisher of the St. Louis American Newspaper, plans to host a second signing for Washington later in the summer.

To order your copy of Spiritually Speaking: Reflections for and from a New Christian,” click here.

Source: https://www.blackpressusa.com/book-review-dallas-weekly-publisher-james-washington-releases-book-of-popular-columns/

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