The Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) manages mass transit in the New York City metropolitan area. Its mission is promoting subways, buses etc., striving to keep cars from clogging up the streets, but they’re hypocrites.
The Roosevelt Island Daily News
Hypocrisy: the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one’s own behavior does not conform.
Finishing off work on Midtown Access, the MTA removed ugly fencing, but instead of returning the space to its original condition, they paved the space no longer in use.
One advantage, of course, is that it partially masks the disgusting portable toilets left out in the open and the green fencing of the trash drop-off for Riverwalk Commons.
This is what most visitors and Roosevelt Islanders look at when. arriving on Roosevelt Island.
Unequal Bargains
On June 18, the Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation’s Real Estate Development Advisory Committee gathered to discuss ground leases, the master retail lease, and the ten additional years being offered under the Island’s master lease. Howard L. Polivy, the committee’s chair, opened the meeting as a longtime host shows guests through a familiar house, pointing out the furniture as if it had never moved an inch.
