Matthew Schuerman

Senior Editor, WNYC

Matthew Schuerman appears in the following:

MTA Station Agents Still Working Plenty of Overtime

Thursday, July 08, 2010

Subway station agents are still working high levels of overtime--and getting paid time-and-half for it--more than a month after transit officials said excess overtime would be reduced.

Officials at the Transport Workers Union first raised the issue in May, charging that the MTA had increased the ...

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Power Outage Leaves Bed-Stuy Block in the Twilight Zone

Thursday, July 08, 2010

New York's bulk power grid has been holding up despite the heat wave. But thousands of residents have gone without power for short periods of time in locations throughout the five boroughs. That’s what happened to Spencer Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant at about 10 p.m. on ...

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NYPD: No Tickets for Parking in Poorly Marked Former Bus Stops

Friday, July 02, 2010

Drivers--and ice cream trucks--are coveting the curb space of the 570 former bus stops that the MTA has abandoned.

Drivers--and ice cream trucks--are coveting the curb space of the 570 former bus stops that the MTA has abandoned.

The police department is going easy on ...

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MTA Cuts Get Lost in Translation

Monday, June 28, 2010

The M train icon on subway signs for the New Utrecht line are blacked out--but several people weren

The M train icon on subway signs for the New Utrecht line are blacked out--but several people weren't aware the line was ...

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Your Monday Morning Commute, Post-Cuts

Monday, June 28, 2010

WNYC reporter and director of the Transportation Nation blog Andrea Bernstein checks in on how service cuts are impacting riders and commuters. WNYC's Matthew Schuerman calls-in after talking with commuters.

How was your commute this morning?  Post your comments here!

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MTA Service Cuts Begin: A Guide

Friday, June 25, 2010

Beginning Sunday, 38 bus routes will be cut entirely, while another 76 will run shorter routes or shorter hours. Off-peak subway service will be reduced on 11 subway lines starting Sunday, while two others will be eliminated as of Monday.

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A Guide to NYC Bus and Subway Service Cuts

Friday, June 25, 2010

Beginning Sunday, 38 bus routes will be cut entirely, while another 76 will run shorter routes or shorter hours. Off-peak subway service will be reduced on 11 subway lines starting Sunday, while two others will be eliminated as of Monday.

Along with reductions on commuter railroads, ...

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Highest NY Court Upholds Columbia University Expansion Plan

Thursday, June 24, 2010

New York's highest court has ruled in favor of Columbia University's expansion plan over 17 acres in West Harlem, and the state's plan to seize private property in its footprint.

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NY's Highest Court Upholds Columbia University Expansion Plan

Thursday, June 24, 2010

The state's highest court has unanimously rejected a lawsuit by two West Harlem businesses that challenged Columbia University's $6.3 billion expansion plan.

The university controls the overwhelming majority of the 17 acres where it wants to build a third campus, and has already begun digging sewage ...

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Bloomberg Names New Deputy Mayor for Economic Development

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Mayor Michael Bloomberg is appointing Robert Steel, a former Wall Street banker, as his deputy mayor for economic development, according to city officials.

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Bloomberg Names New Deputy Mayor for Economic Development

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Mayor Michael Bloomberg is appointing Robert Steel, a former Wall Street banker, as his deputy mayor for economic development, according to city officials.

Steel will be the third deputy mayor for economic development under Bloomberg to come out of the finance world. He spent most of ...

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MTA Saves Free Student MetroCards

Friday, June 18, 2010

The MTA is abandoning its plan to revoke free MetroCards for students to get to school.

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NYU Plans New 38-Story Building in Greenwich Village

Thursday, June 17, 2010

New York University wants to build a 38-story hotel and faculty residence on Bleecker Street as the first of several projects that will increase the university's physical size over the next 20 years.

The glass and concrete tower would be about 40 percent taller than three ...

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MTA Saves Free Student MetroCards

Thursday, June 17, 2010

The MTA is abandoning its plan to revoke free MetroCards for students to get to school.

MTA Chairman Jay Walder had threatened to start charging students half-fare starting in September unless the city and the state contributed more money. But aides say Gov. David Paterson has ...

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'Riverside Center' Development Plan Draws Objections

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

A development company wants to finish off a job that Donald Trump began more than two decades ago. Back then, Trump proposed to build a massive complex of office and residential buildings on a platform above an old train yard between West 59th and West 72nd streets near the Hudson ...

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Subway Construction Disrupts Businesses Along Second Avenue

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Upper East Side businesses struggling through subway tunnel construction are asking the City Council for help.

At hearings yesterday, Second Avenue Business Association head Joe Pecora estimated that 14 businesses have closed or been forced to relocate as a result of construction on the new subway ...

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WTC Settlement

Friday, June 11, 2010

WNYC reporters Fred Mogul and Matthew Schuerman discuss the new ground zero settlement, which awards plaintiffs $712.5 million.

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New Proposal Could Boost WTC Workers' Settlement by $125M

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Lawyers say they've reached a new settlement for almost 10,000 emergency personnel and construction workers who may have suffered health problems while working on the pile at Ground Zero.

The revised proposal, which still has to be approved by 95 percent of the workers, would increase ...

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MTA's Proposed Layoffs Get Another Hearing

Wednesday, June 09, 2010

Station agent at the 23rd St. stop. (Photo by Stephen Nessen)

Station agent at the 23rd St. stop. (Photo by Stephen Nessen)

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority's board has voted to hold a new round of four public hearings next month to discuss ...

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Judge Rules MTA Must Reopen Station Booths

Tuesday, June 08, 2010

A state civil court judge has ordered the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to reopen, and restaff, 42 subway station booths that she says the MTA improperly closed in May.

The ruling, from Judge Saliann Scarpulla, comes just days after she threw out the MTA's plan to close ...

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