Why, because she's Russian?

"Netrebko had endorsed Putin for president in 2012, but denounced the war in February and later distanced herself from Putin. Her statements led her to be ousted from her Russian contracts and called a traitor."

You're paying $0.56/therm? Up here in north Jersey, if you add supply, delivery, and rebalancing together, it comes out to $1.24/therm!

Are we talking Manhattan only for some reason?

Plenty of normal 1 bd apts in normal parts of the boros for that price.

It's $87k now, which using the 1/3 income rule gets you a $2400/month apartment.

How do you get up there??

How does freight from east williamsburg make it off long island? By truck?

Pretty big difference if the clog in the system is a large rail yard in the port of Newark, as opposed to the tunnels under Hudson yards.

There seems to be a lot of missing details in this reporting... How does the poo freight leave NYC to begin with? Via the commuter rail/Amtrak tunnels?

Or does all this poo go to NJ or upstate freight yards first via barge and truck anyway?

When you go eastbound on 280 approaching Newark, if you stay on the highway, the highway abruptly ends and you end up on local streets in Newark.

To continue on 280, you need to take 2 exit lanes on the right, which takes you on a section of 280 which is suddenly 2 lanes in each direction without any shoulders.

That's because they never continued 280, they just connected it to a previous road, and renamed it 280.

Yes they should have, but there was a highway revolt when they were building 280. (That's why it's so narrow when it goes through Newark, and went you have to exit to stay on it).

The same folks are the r/fuckcars type now.

Yep.

One thing I'm surprised about is that after closing down the lanes, they didn't bother to retime (or remove) the traffic lights at both ends of the chokepoint.

They make a bad situation much much worse, and that would be a simple fix for the duration.

I'm kind of surprised there's no reporting on this in the press.

I've seen this with other projects too, you might get an article to the effect of "construction will last until November 15th" but then no follow up if the date slips.

Maybe that's part of the reason it always slips, no accountability.