Word: metropolitanism
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...area where Bloomberg's green vision has clashed with political realities is mass transit. The subway system is controlled not by the city but by New York State's Metropolitan Transportation Authority. So while PlaNYC includes a call for the subways to be brought up to a state of good repair (a visit to any subway station will indicate they're not there yet), the city doesn't have the power to enforce it. Similarly, the plan pushes new projects like the long-awaited Second Avenue subway line on Manhattan's far East Side. Those multibillion-dollar improvements were...
...deputy, Ron Bloom. Both men had spent much of their careers in the universe of high finance, but they came from different planets. Thanks to the success of his dealmaking firm, Quadrangle, Rattner, 56, lives atop New York society in an apartment overlooking Central Park and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Bloom, who turns 54 today, lived until recently in Pittsburgh and trained as an investment banker so he could help unions negotiate complicated deals, which he has done for the past 15 years as an assistant to the president of the United Steelworkers union...
...famous New York magazine profile, his onetime Lazard Frères mentor, Felix Rohatyn (Bill Clinton's ambassador to France), accused Rattner of being a social climber averse to public service and cultural pursuits. Rattner now sits on the board of a variety of charities as well as the Metropolitan Museum...
...Nevertheless, London's Metropolitan Police has advised financial workers to dress down during the protests, and newspaper fashion writers have offered help on blending in. "Boring cardigan, neatly buttoned and worn with a skinny-ish tie and narrow fit trousers" should offer male bankers some anonymity, one wrote this week. As for women, "flat boots", and "leopard-print cardigan" ought to give marchers the slip. (See pictures of the Top 10 scared traders...
...includes more than twenty hospitals and clinics providing services throughout Cambridge, Somerville, and the northern metropolitan area of Boston...