NYU is roughly $75k a year. Source: I went there.

NYU at $27K for books only maybe...

Pretty much all the fancy NYC private schools have been 60k+ for a couple of years now. Avenues isn't even the most expensive school.

Also, you're expected to donate to the annual fund. Pay up.

And yeah, NYU, Columbia and the like are probably a bit more expensive, but that's including housing and incidentals. Straight tuition comparison, the K-12 schools are more expensive.

Arguably the best K-12 school in NYC (and perhaps the U.S.) is absolutely free, however. Hunter College Schools. But you have to be in the top quarter of 1% of students to qualify for admission.

^ no doubt, but links fellas, links.

little wary of this, but looks like good news ...


METRO-NORTH
Amtrak Pact Puts MTA’s Penn Station Access Megaproject Back on Schedule

MTA crews will get needed access to Amtrak’s tracks crossing the Hell Gate Bridge, but Amtrak passengers potentially face months of service impacts.

BY JOSE MARTINEZ MAR 3, 2023


Amtrak has agreed to add what MTA officials called “the missing ingredient” in their plan to connect Metro-North commuters to Penn Station — a project facing delays and cost overruns because of a lack of coordination between the two sides.

The federally funded passenger railroad this week pledged to open the tracks along the Hell Gate Line to MTA construction crews and contractors working on the Penn Station Access project. It aims to add four new Metro-North stations in The Bronx by 2027 and create a terminal on Manhattan’s West Side for a commuter railroad that serves the northern suburbs.


more:
https://www.thecity.nyc/2023/3/3/236...station-access

Read that last nite. Frustrating it took this long just to get Amtrak to cooperate. The kind of absurd lack of coordination in this country is maddening. Same thing happened at Harold causing tons of $$$ and ESA delays.

What are you wary about? This is good news.

According to their website, the "general" tuition & fees for NYU is about $60k. It is $61K for Stern, and an astounding $66K for Tisch:

https://www.nyu.edu/admissions/finan...ttendance.html

R211's entered revenue service today. I do hope some tweaks are made before the rest of production proceeds. IMO these include: (more of a good design wish list)

- For the love of all things holy please quietly drop the Cuomo stripes. They look stupid and they're tackyy as hell. If you want a splash of blue put it on the doors like the R-32's had when they were new. That said I'd rather the cab bonnet be black instead of thee blue which shows off the window profiles and headlight shoddiness. I think that looks better.

- Tone down the LED's. Between the door markers, the destination boards and the bullet it looks like a bodega. Those elements should glow not punch you in the face with garish light. And the color of the light they emit is cold colored and aesthetically unpleasant. The resolution is also too low to smoothly display the letterforms.

- Redo the destination boards and bullet. The mockup shown before production showed these elements done tastefully in backlit/LCD system standard Helvetica. These bullets and the design standard breaking typography look terrible. A big step back for NYCT design standards. And on top of that the LED's burn your corneas.

The rest is what it is. Its basically like every other B Division car of the last 20 years just with sinister looking headlights and wider doors. No leaps in styling by any means. At least we'll likely get the majority of the order with open gangway as those will prove to be popular.


https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...199d92_c_d.jpg
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^ did you get to ride on one? i assume they are only to be found on the A and C lines? i am looking forward to it, especially an open gangway trainset.

https://cdn.abcotvs.com/dip/images/1...img.jpg?w=1600

They're only on the A right now I believe. I'm not sure when the open gangway start revenue trials. Its going to be very interesting to see how riders react to them. I predict a mixed bag with a majority in favor. The negatives are going to be driven by concerns and or experiences of beggars and performers travelling up and down the train being more of a nuisance they currently are. I also wouldn't be surprised some mentioning woozyness and motion sickness from looking down the lenghth of the train. It will be a tad anxiety inducing considering how wavy gravy turny curvy the NY subway system is. A modern metro the original system it is not.

new rail car news —



Latest subway cars roll into service, start their journey on the A line

By Sarah Belle Lin
Posted on March 10, 2023


Welcome the new, long-awaited R211 subway cars to the MTA family!

The MTA held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the arrival of its latest subway cars, the first to enter the system in more than five years. The glistening and unspoiled R211 cars with signature blue-and-gold seats started their journey on the A line at the northernmost tip of the line at 207th Street station in upper Manhattan’s Inwood. The event was live-streamed and lucky members of the public jumped on board long before the train pulled out of the station.


more:
https://www.amny.com/news/new-mta-su...on-the-a-line/

https://www.amny.com/wp-content/uplo...o-1200x848.jpg
The inaugural ride of the first R211A subway train from 207th Street on the A Line on Friday, March 10, 2023. Photo taken by Marc A. Hermann/MTA.

LGA AirTrain finally kaput. Looks like bus improvements most likely.

Plans to Build AirTrain to La Guardia Are Officially Scrapped

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/13/n...-airtrain.html

I believe the back-burner plug-the-holes approach is the best approach right now. Wait until there is obvious consensus and a shift in leadership culture for the obvious subway and/or regional rail connection.

Unlike the commonplace sentiment on this forum in the context of a scrapped development or scaled backed ambitions, where the idea of tolerating an empty lot is somehow worse than seeing the wrong solution built and being stuck with it for half a century like. That's what JFK AirTrain is and would have been for LGA.

Also if you're going to dump a lot of airport travelers into Ditmars probably time to fix the terminal issues there, which would benefit everyone.

hmm …


LaGuardia AirTrain proposal officially canned by Port Authority, suggests airport shuttle bus instead

By Ben Brachfeld
Posted on March 13, 2023


The Port Authority on Monday hammered the final nail in the coffin of the controversial proposal to build an AirTrain to LaGuardia Airport.

The move comes more than a year after Gov. Kathy Hochul halted the plan, a pet project of her disgraced predecessor Andrew Cuomo, and commissioned a study for alternatives. On Monday, the Port Authority’s “expert panel” released its final report, shunning the long-contentious AirTrain and declaring the best option to be a new shuttle bus between the airport and the end of the N/W subway line in Astoria, Queens.


more:
https://www.amny.com/transit/laguard...e-bus-instead/

N Train Extension or a spur off of the IBX are the only good options for LaGuardia.

there is no consensus for what to do, so improved bus service is fine for now.

eventually they will probably extend the astoria subway or bring an airtrain from lga to astoria.

i would rather they get crackin on the ibx, second ave phase 2 and the bx mnrr stations for now.

Albany legislators dismiss Hochul’s MTA rescue plan, present their own

By Ben Brachfeld
Posted on March 14, 2023


The State Assembly and Senate have released their long-awaited responses to Governor Kathy Hochul’s executive budget, pointedly rejecting her plan to rescue the fiscally-beleaguered Metropolitan Transportation Authority and putting forth their own.

Virtually all the central planks of Hochul’s fiscal lifeboat for the MTA — increasing the payroll mobility tax, shifting the $500 million bill for paratransit and student MetroCards to the city, directing future casino revenue to the authority, and raising fares this year and in 2025 — were cast to the wayside by the State Senate in its one-house budget resolution, after being blasted by virtually every stakeholder except the governor and MTA.


more:
https://www.amny.com/transit/albany-...ent-their-own/

IMO, the Airtrain should connect LGA with JFK and to major hubs between Astoria via the Grand central in the north and Stillwell in the south along the Belt. Dont ask me how to pay for it though, lol.

abso-freakin-lootly. thats why i was never against cuomo’s airtrain plan. it was angled toward jamaica.