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Nolan Hicks

@ndhapple.bsky.social
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This is me, not an official account. Led NYU-Marron’s passenger rail modernization effort; co-authored/edited the landmark ‘A Better Billion’ subway report. Now working on next gen trains at the MTA. City beat reporter in a former life. Hook’em🤘. 🏳️‍🌈.

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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 1h
IMO: It’s crazy that we went a decade with two council districts accounting for ~30% of all new housing construction in the city.
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 2h
Reupping this from yesterday. If you’re in transit and facing down tariff bills and related supply chain disruptions/costs, hit me up. DMs are open.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 4h
NEW: It's that time of year: time to launch my annual guide to November's elections! I guide you through over *650* interesting elections, & why they matter. Judges, AGs, govs, mayors, lawmakers, AGs, county & school boards—plus many (many) ballot measures. Oh, & Congress. Explore & bookmark!
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Your Cheat Sheet to the 2026 General Elections - Bolts
Congressional races will take center stage on Nov. 3, but they’re just the tip of what to watch. Prosecutors and governors, attorneys general and sheriffs, school boards and mayors, utility... Read Mo...
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 4h
Jimmy Kimmel, otoh,
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 6h
Not just proceeding on a red but accelerating???????
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Fenit Nirappil @fenitn.bsky.social · 6h
But our pollster @sfcpoll.bsky.social also offers this caution
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Fenit Nirappil @fenitn.bsky.social · 6h
NEW: We polled two of the competitive Virginia House districts that could portend a blue wave or a blue tsunami on Election Night. These are good signs for Democrats. Gift link: wapo.st/4hBQfoq
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 7h
'The 12 Neighborhoods the Mamdani Administration Is Targeting for More Affordable Housing' -- www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/10/01/a...
thecityreporter.nyc
The 12 Neighborhoods the Mamdani Administration Is Targeting for More Affordable Housing
The city Planning Department’s new list of districts with weak records on housing includes the Upper East Side and several neighborhoods in Queens and Staten Island.
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 16h
okay might be time to switch to slow horses
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 16h
Yankees score like four runs this inning with the small ball you'd never expect from a Yankees team and then Bellinger comes up and launches one about 380 feet.
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 17h
Drone shot flying over the subway train approaching Yankee Stadium was pretty pretty cool
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 17h
The Sox have come apart
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 17h
Spencer Jones is 6'7" and doing sprints
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 17h
Safe and it ain't close
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 17h
But this is a delightfully gimmick free broadcast compared to what we've gotten in recent years from FOX, which in game interviews and all kinds of other stuff getting in the way of the baseball
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 17h
I don't understand sending Rice
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 17h
I don't love these ads inserted into the top and bottom of the innings. Baseball gives you plenty of natural breaks.
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 17h
The sports gambling app ads are endemic
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 18h
Haven't spent a lot of time this season listening to Jason Benetti's calls. The booth tonight is quite enjoyable.
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 18h
Someone's gotta explain to me burning a challenge in the bottom of the second with no one on.
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 19h
This thread has the video of the MTA rolling stock group chief's presentation to the MTA board; plus the slides as presented to the board; plus the letter from the Governor to the feds asking for a tariff exemption for Made in America (Buy America compliant) buses and trains.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 19h
Senators appear to have struck a deal aimed at tearing down regulatory roadblocks that can make building big things in the U.S. impossible. The proposal would rewrite project review rules and speed up legal challenges that stymie energy and transportation projects.
washingtonpost.com
Building big things in the U.S. is hard. A Senate deal aims to fix that.
A sweeping bipartisan plan takes aim at the bottlenecks scuttling new infrastructure.
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 20h
*27.9%*
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 23h
The MTA on Wednesday said President Donald Trump’s tariffs on foreign imports are on track to add $1 billion to the price of New York’s new train cars and buses. gothamist.com/news/mta-say...
gothamist.com
MTA says Trump's tariffs added $1B to cost of NYC's new train cars, buses
New York's train cars and buses are manufactured in the United States, but they rely on loads of components manufactured all over the world.
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Letter from Gov. Hochul to Commerce Secretary Lutnick and Trade Representative Greer requesting a tariff exemption for Made in America trains and buses is online — www.governor.ny.gov/sites/defaul...
governor.ny.gov
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 30/09/2026
The MTA—the nation's largest transit agency—wants to spend $23 billion on new trains and buses in the coming years. But the Trump Administration's tariffs could cost the agency $1 billion. That would mean either (a) the agency could buy fewer vehicles; or (b) it would have to spend more money.
bloomberg.com
MTA Seeks to End $1 Billion of Tariffs on Subway Cars, Buses
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority wants the Trump administration to exempt New York City’s purchases of new subway cars and buses from tariffs to avoid $1 billion in added fees on the nation’s...
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
MTA presentation on $1 billion tax on transit that tariffs are taking on our bus and train procurements. We have to pay this tax despite exceeding Buy America requirements and that rolling stock program funds hundreds and hundreds of manufacturing jobs — www.youtube.com/live/0e3tHtO...
youtube.com
MTA Board Meeting - 9/30/2026
YouTube video by MTA Live
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Reupping very cool MTA openings!
The MTA wants *you* to apply
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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Maybe not the right analogy to make in a Yankees +9 environment
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Legit forgot US News/World Report was still a thing: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/n...
nytimes.com
U.S. News Shuffled Its N.Y. High School Rankings. An Uproar Ensued.
After the New York State Education Department denied a request from U.S. News for A.P. scores, perennially top-ranked schools plummeted.
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“Turning an Airfield in Brooklyn Into a High School” — www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/n...
nytimes.com
Turning an Airfield in Brooklyn Into a High School
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“The Student Journalists Who Never Let the Cornell Assault Case Go” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/n...
nytimes.com
Students at Cornell Daily Sun Pursued Sexual Assault Case for Two Years
The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity party since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case.
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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is a hell of a piece.
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Strong work by the photo editors at the FT
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Love a 213mb txt file
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
FWIW: I'm stoked to get baseball back on NBC.
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"US coal miners are suffering from the highest rate of lung disease since 1978 in the mining heartland of central Appalachia, even as US coal production is less than half its all-time high in the late 2000s." -- www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
bloomberg.com
Black Lung Disease Is the Only True Comeback for Coal
President Donald Trump has vowed to return America’s declining coal industry to its glory days. But the only real revival of trying to put this polluting fuel back at its peak is its ability to destro...
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"But borrowing this week instead of three months ago will cost it hundreds of millions of dollars a year in extra interest, now that growing fears about global inflation have lifted borrowing rates" -- www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
Paramount Deal Delay Fuels Fears of Costly $52 Billion M&A Debt
Paramount Skydance Corp. has been talking to investors for months about the debt it’s selling to fund its Warner Bros. Discovery buyout, only to find that the longer it’s been forced to talk, the more...
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Zero growth is *really* expensive
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Confusing the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes, whew boy idk
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
ONLY MURDERS IN THE BLOODLETTING
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"His slam dunk was a brick." classic tab lede from an old school tab rewriteman www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
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GOP senator airballs perjury claim against Jack Smith over apparent Hawks/Hawkeyes mix-up
The Missouri senator’s shot at a gotcha moment against the former special counsel wound up being a very public miss.
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Jay Cohen @jaycohenap.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Homeland Security taps $20M in taxpayer funds for pro-Trump ads
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Homeland Security taps $20M in taxpayer funds for pro-Trump ads
DHS has tapped $20 million to pay for campaign-style ads glorifying President Donald Trump.
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
put a pin in it
Classic @DickNixon, “do you ever think about death”
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“It’s just a fuel crisis Michael, what could you possibly expect the federal government to do”
Jessica Walter as Lucille Bluth”
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Also reupping this very cool C&D posting to help literally shape our station rehab/rebuild plans. Literally!
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We've got a second opening to join the team designing, bidding and building the trains and buses that move millions. We're looking for someone who loves data and can mine datasets with hundreds of millions of rows and extract meaning from them. AND… 1/2 — careers.mta.org/jobs/1828831...
careers.mta.org
Associate, Rolling Stock Strategy & Analysis in New York, New York, United States
Associate, Rolling Stock Strategy & Analysis in New York, New York, United States
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Exclusive: ‘I have no one’: Inside a Texas immigration court where children fight to stay in the US” — www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p...
cnn.com
Inside a Texas immigration court where children fight to stay in the US | CNN Politics
Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to try make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation.
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