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Captured this video this morning at the Douglaston LIRR station.  An unmarked helicopter (just labeled “001″) continued to fly in sweeping, erratic fashion back-and-forth over the inlet of Alley Pond Park.  Note how it barely makes it over the treetops on each pass; it continued this behavior for nearly ten observed minutes before my train [...]

New York City’s massive commuter rail and subway systems and related infrastructure, filled with hundreds of miles of tunnels and thousands of cars, switches, and other electrical equipment, have often proven to be excellent barometers of the City’s economic fortunes throughout its checkered history. During the dark years of New York City — those times [...]