Adam Fisher-Cox
@adamfishercox.com
Product designer focused on transportation and the public realm. You’ve probably seen my work if you’ve taken transit in NYC!
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the fact that there is free parking at all in manhattan is wild to me
“Pairing free buses with paid parking says we value people in motion more than cars at rest,” writes Nicolas Rohatyn.
Opinion | The Way to Pay for Free Buses Is to End Free Parking
Free buses would be transformative not only for riders, but for the ecosystem of the city as a whole.
nyti.ms
December 24, 2025 at 1:38 PM
the fact that there is free parking at all in manhattan is wild to me
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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Unfortunately I am a MetroCard hater and side with the “good riddance”
December 22, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Unfortunately I am a MetroCard hater and side with the “good riddance”
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An Editor’s Note from 60 Minutes
December 21, 2025 at 9:30 PM
An Editor’s Note from 60 Minutes
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As I’ve said before, politics in New York City don’t fall along traditional partisan lines, they fall along the divide of inner boroughs and outer boroughs and the outer boroughs think they’re the only real New Yorkers. They all also have clearly melted their brains on the Internet.
the reaction from the TWU President:
December 21, 2025 at 2:40 PM
As I’ve said before, politics in New York City don’t fall along traditional partisan lines, they fall along the divide of inner boroughs and outer boroughs and the outer boroughs think they’re the only real New Yorkers. They all also have clearly melted their brains on the Internet.
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Inner Brooklyn needs a congestion pricing zone so bad. Same dysfunctional clusterfuck vibe that Lower Manhattan had until a year ago.
December 20, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Inner Brooklyn needs a congestion pricing zone so bad. Same dysfunctional clusterfuck vibe that Lower Manhattan had until a year ago.
Not the point, but did CBS News fire all their designers for being too woke? This graphic looks like Bari cobbled it together herself in PowerPoint.
A "debate" where the two sides are a conservative operative and an Epstein files guy. Remember what I said about how "stacked panel" propaganda works.
December 20, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Not the point, but did CBS News fire all their designers for being too woke? This graphic looks like Bari cobbled it together herself in PowerPoint.
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I remain quite angry at the people, many of them fellow Jews, who spent so much energy worrying about leftwing campus antisemitism when it was so clearly used as a distraction from the growing acceptance of mask-off Nazism within the Republican party. So many people allowed themselves to get played.
We need to read this. People need to understand. Antisemitism IS actually an urgent threat, but the crisis point isn't campus protests.
From the right-wing Manhattan Institute's focus group of Gen Z conservatives -- just jaw-dropping stuff. We have a very sick society. www.city-journal.org/article/manh...
December 19, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I remain quite angry at the people, many of them fellow Jews, who spent so much energy worrying about leftwing campus antisemitism when it was so clearly used as a distraction from the growing acceptance of mask-off Nazism within the Republican party. So many people allowed themselves to get played.
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From the right-wing Manhattan Institute's focus group of Gen Z conservatives -- just jaw-dropping stuff. We have a very sick society. www.city-journal.org/article/manh...
December 19, 2025 at 6:46 PM
From the right-wing Manhattan Institute's focus group of Gen Z conservatives -- just jaw-dropping stuff. We have a very sick society. www.city-journal.org/article/manh...
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the reality is Spanish is our de facto second language and white people need to sack up and face reality
Cannot believe this version of the Republican Party won a record number of Latino/Hispanic voters, this country is so cooked lol
December 19, 2025 at 7:15 PM
the reality is Spanish is our de facto second language and white people need to sack up and face reality
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Great news: Gov Hochul has reportedly decided to veto a bill requiring two-person train operation.
This poorly-considered bill would've mmediately impacted services that are currently run with one person, and would've make it impossible to fully automate new lines like the IBX.
This poorly-considered bill would've mmediately impacted services that are currently run with one person, and would've make it impossible to fully automate new lines like the IBX.
Gov Hochul will veto a bill to require both a conductor and a driver on every subway train, according to two sources familiar with the decision. Story to follow. Details on the bill here:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/n...
Does the Subway Still Need Train Conductors?
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Great news: Gov Hochul has reportedly decided to veto a bill requiring two-person train operation.
This poorly-considered bill would've mmediately impacted services that are currently run with one person, and would've make it impossible to fully automate new lines like the IBX.
This poorly-considered bill would've mmediately impacted services that are currently run with one person, and would've make it impossible to fully automate new lines like the IBX.
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New Jersey does not build enough housing, but we build almost twice as much as NYC.
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: / Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
December 19, 2025 at 4:50 PM
New Jersey does not build enough housing, but we build almost twice as much as NYC.
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Zohran Mamdani explains that thousands and thousands of New Yorkers are already eligible for free and reduce public transportation, but because of the bureaucratic hurdles they never get enrolled in the program.
That's why he wants to just make the bus free.
That's why he wants to just make the bus free.
December 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Zohran Mamdani explains that thousands and thousands of New Yorkers are already eligible for free and reduce public transportation, but because of the bureaucratic hurdles they never get enrolled in the program.
That's why he wants to just make the bus free.
That's why he wants to just make the bus free.
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i'm fascinated by how much people love and are amazed by chat gpt saying "nice catch!" and "great observation!" because i personally find the condescension and obsequiousness the most skin-crawling thing about how LLMs "talk"
If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
December 18, 2025 at 12:09 PM
i'm fascinated by how much people love and are amazed by chat gpt saying "nice catch!" and "great observation!" because i personally find the condescension and obsequiousness the most skin-crawling thing about how LLMs "talk"
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I reject this idea that we should never impose consequences for antisocial behavior because doing so might harm a poor person.
Imposing material consequences for overt expressions of bigotry is a good thing that we should do more often, and not just to people in low level customer service jobs.
Imposing material consequences for overt expressions of bigotry is a good thing that we should do more often, and not just to people in low level customer service jobs.
“Those of us on the left should be fighting to improve protections for workers of all races, and thereby for the betterment of people’s material conditions regardless of their views,” Arash Azizi argues:
Why the Cinnabon Story Doesn’t Make Me Happy
The left should be promoting working-class solidarity, not delighting in seeing workers summarily dismissed.
bit.ly
December 12, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I reject this idea that we should never impose consequences for antisocial behavior because doing so might harm a poor person.
Imposing material consequences for overt expressions of bigotry is a good thing that we should do more often, and not just to people in low level customer service jobs.
Imposing material consequences for overt expressions of bigotry is a good thing that we should do more often, and not just to people in low level customer service jobs.
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25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.
December 12, 2025 at 5:36 AM
25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.
But the MTA is blowing a chance to buy a bunch of open gangway trains that would make surfing much harder
A 14-year-old boy fell from atop a southbound B train in Brooklyn this afternoon in an apparent case of subway surfing.
He avoided hitting the third rail, and is expected to recover from lacerations to his head, leg and arms.
He avoided hitting the third rail, and is expected to recover from lacerations to his head, leg and arms.
Teen injured in fall while subway surfing in Brooklyn
The 14-year-old boy fell from the top of a southbound B train into the roadbed at the Ave. J stop near. E. 16th St. in Midwood around 4:12 p.m., cops said.
www.nydailynews.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:04 AM
But the MTA is blowing a chance to buy a bunch of open gangway trains that would make surfing much harder
Evergreen post, but the doomers will get breathless coverage again with the next thing, because pattern recognition is very difficult for some.
Everything the experts and people knowledgeable about congestion pricing said would happen has happened, and nothing the ignorant doomers whined about for years on X and in community meetings has happened.
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Good data alert coming through! NYCEDC reports that business activity in the congestion relief zone is outpacing the rest of NYC: 4.8% foot-traffic growth in the zone vs. 1% citywide.
www.eenews.net/articles/bus...
www.eenews.net/articles/bus...
December 11, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Evergreen post, but the doomers will get breathless coverage again with the next thing, because pattern recognition is very difficult for some.
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Congress is trying to force through mass surveillance/censorship laws THIS WEEK
BOOST THIS EVERYWHERE before it’s too late. 👇
www.badinternetbills.com
Call and tell your rep:
—NO to KOSA
—NO to Section 230 reform
—NO online digital ID laws
—NO age verification laws
BOOST THIS EVERYWHERE before it’s too late. 👇
www.badinternetbills.com
Call and tell your rep:
—NO to KOSA
—NO to Section 230 reform
—NO online digital ID laws
—NO age verification laws
Bad Internet Bills
All of the bad internet bills. One website.
www.badinternetbills.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Congress is trying to force through mass surveillance/censorship laws THIS WEEK
BOOST THIS EVERYWHERE before it’s too late. 👇
www.badinternetbills.com
Call and tell your rep:
—NO to KOSA
—NO to Section 230 reform
—NO online digital ID laws
—NO age verification laws
BOOST THIS EVERYWHERE before it’s too late. 👇
www.badinternetbills.com
Call and tell your rep:
—NO to KOSA
—NO to Section 230 reform
—NO online digital ID laws
—NO age verification laws
Cover them with a metal sign that is removable so the tiles remain – I've seen this in other stations, always been confused why they didn't do that here.
These signs are not historically significant enough to justify the confusion of leaving them up. This is a major subway interchange primarily called Court Sq., it’s very confusing to have signs that say something else entirely.
December 9, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Cover them with a metal sign that is removable so the tiles remain – I've seen this in other stations, always been confused why they didn't do that here.
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The untold story of the ruling in which Justice Chereé Buggs kills the 31st St. bike lane is that FDNY sabotaged it by deciding, inexplicably, that they can’t stage ladder trucks in a bike lane that was designed for them to be wide enough for exactly that s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
s3.documentcloud.org
December 9, 2025 at 3:02 AM
The untold story of the ruling in which Justice Chereé Buggs kills the 31st St. bike lane is that FDNY sabotaged it by deciding, inexplicably, that they can’t stage ladder trucks in a bike lane that was designed for them to be wide enough for exactly that s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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In addition to all of the other benefits already reported about NYC congestion pricing, "In the first six months of the program, air pollution – in the form of particulate matter 2.5 micrometers and smaller – dropped by 22% in the Congestion Relief Zone (CRZ)"
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
Congestion pricing improved air quality in NYC and suburbs | Cornell Chronicle
Cornell researchers tallied the environmental benefits of New York City’s congestion pricing program and found air pollution dropped by 22% in Manhattan, with additional declines across the city’s fiv...
news.cornell.edu
December 9, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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This is one of those things that makes me so angry about this stuff. We are at an amazing level of technological progress and we can’t even actually appreciate because almost everything they claim it can do is a lie even though what it can do is amazing.
December 8, 2025 at 1:25 PM
This is one of those things that makes me so angry about this stuff. We are at an amazing level of technological progress and we can’t even actually appreciate because almost everything they claim it can do is a lie even though what it can do is amazing.
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They got a cool festive signage for the holiday train and an old subway token as the line symbol!
December 7, 2025 at 4:33 PM
They got a cool festive signage for the holiday train and an old subway token as the line symbol!
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My son was on the train platform and noticed this and decided to wait for the train
December 7, 2025 at 4:33 PM
My son was on the train platform and noticed this and decided to wait for the train