The MTA owns the space.
The MTA , you may have heard, is an agency that is billions of dollars in debt.
a former MTA engineer, who got him interested in this particular location, which is just a couple blocks away from his office on the Lower East Side.
That's actually an MTA employee.
That the MTA doesn’t have that much money right now and probably wants to make a lot of money on any purchase of what they own.
It's the MTA 's space.
Dan Barasch: The MTA made this weird promotional video for the site.
We're able to hoodwink the MTA into a tour, which is a lot harder than it sounds, and when we got down there, we were really blown away by the height, the scale of what you
'Cause I'm assuming that the MTA does this.
one must take the hat off to mta in los angeles they've been doing a fantastic job of building better bus systems and bus
We've been working really closely with the MTA .
And in it, the MTA spokesman made a joke about how it could become a nightclub, which was so weird coming from a public official.
And we promised that all of that would be given to the MTA , which we don't even control-- Which is run by the state.
A key piece here is that the core reality is that the MTA currently owns the location and is looking to put the proposal, essentially open it up for proposals at some point later
Currently, JW Cortés actively serves as a New York state MTA police officer and dedicates a lot of his time to two causes
That's cool with CBS outdoor, which administers these ads on behalf of the MTA and the city.
So, I had someone from my office go down to MTA Archives and again, what was the term you used?
And there's a lot of people, both in the MTA and outside the MTA , who think this is a wonderful idea and are basically saying, "We give you all of our support.
FEMALE #2: Do you have a sense of, you mentioned MTA was opening up this space for proposal.
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And I had the good fortune to come across Greyston, which is 25 minutes north on the MTA , and I said,
I mean, I heard from Nicole that you did not film that in the city, because MTA said no, we're not--
Actually, speaking of coming to the city, like, hi, there was a lot of stuff with production where I'm sure Nicole just called up MTA
And to me, this is where the sort of intellectual bankruptcy of the policy becomes clear, because the MTA and the City of New York define graffiti as vandalism.
This elaborate caper comes together to attempt to paint every train at once, thus affecting either a total shutdown of the MTA , which would wreak havoc on New York,
And I think you bring up a very valid and interesting point, but until we actually get a team of engineers, cleared by the MTA , to go down into there and start exploring some
will be able to say actually we've spent the time talking to the community about what it wants to do and this isn't simply a conversation around short-term gain for MTA , but there
James Ramsey: Isn't it fun we're talking about tree houses and the MTA is talking about
Look, even my son has an app, which I disclose that its my son, but he has an app called MTailor that takes your measurements