Andrea Bernstein

One year ago, the Obama Administration began pushing billions and billions of dollars out the door.  The federal stimulus combines tax cuts, huge chunks of federal spending and the extension of benefits in hopes of stimulating the American economy.  So how are American cities changing, and what will we remember about this massive program decades from now?

The White House says the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has created or saved some 160,000 jobs in New York state, and another 65,000 in New Jersey.

The jobs numbers come on the first anniversary of the stimulus bill. They're based not on actual jobs -- which has been hard ...

One year ago President Obama signed a landmark economic stimulus package into law. So far, $272 billion has been sent into the country to keep teachers at work, build bridges and extend unemployment benefits. Now, a year later, we take a look at how the plan is working.

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President Obama is marking the one-year anniversary of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. In a White House report released last night Vice President Joe Biden says the federal stimulus project has so far created or saved 2 million jobs, while some $453 billion have ...

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The deck chairs and umbrellas that began populating Times Square last spring will become a permanent fixture on Broadway, at least as long as Mayor Michael Bloomberg is in office. The mayor ...

Mayor Michael Bloomberg is making permanent the experimental pedestrian plaza on Broadway around Times Square.

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Mayor Bloomberg is expected to announce that he'll permanently make parts of Times Square into a pedestrian plaza. WNYC's Andrea Bernstein has more.

REPORTER: When Mayor Bloomberg closed Times Square to car traffic last summer, the move caused consternation among cab drivers and New Yorkers who ...

Both Senators Kirsten Gillibrand and Charles Schumer are beside themselves with glee about the $151 million grant for high-speed rail development in the Empire State that New York received today as part of the $8 billion stimulus grant package for high-speed rail. In fact, at 12:05 am--just minutes after the ...

In last night's State of the Union address, President Obama proposed the ambitious goal of bringing high speed rail to America. He wants to devote eight billion dollars to be doled out to 31 states to overhaul their mass transit systems.

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New York is getting 151 million dollars as part of a package of high-speed rail grants President Obama is unveiling today. But New Yorkers shouldn't expect bullet trains anytime soon. WNYC's Andrea Bernstein explains.

REPORTER: California is getting 2 billion dollars, Florida well over 1 billion, ...

Takeaway correspondent Andrea Bernstein is just back from a conference in Washington of 10,000 transportation professionals from across the country. There, she learned how cities around the country are introducing novel ideas for transport, trying to make them mainstream. We hear about "Hot Lanes," "Bike Shares," and whether or not some cities may be looking at letting rich people buy their way out of traffic congestion.

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The Port Authority is studying a plan to get more people through the Lincoln Tunnel every morning faster. But it could cost you if you're driving alone. WNYC's Andrea Bernstein explains.

REPORTER: Over 60,000 people come into Manhattan through the Lincoln Tunnel every day on a ...

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City plans for speeding up buses on First and Second Avenues do not include physically separating the buses from other traffic. But the new designs do include miles of protected bike lanes.

Experts say bus rapid transit, or BRT, as its called, has been most successful ...

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It could be said that Sen. Charles Schumer is a senator now, and not still a congressman from Brooklyn, because of an epithet uttered against him in the final weeks of his 1998 Senate campaign against then-U.S. Senator Alfonse D'Amato. Okay, that's a gross ...