Winnie Hu

New York Times reporter covering how New York City works. Transportation, infrastructure, crowding, education. [email protected]

[NYT Metro @NYTMetro]

In cramped Midtown Manhattan, there’s a new way to escape the crowds and traffic. A European-style piazza has been built on top of one of the nation’s busiest railroad corridors. https://t.co/0Wl8RmMM7s

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Six years after New York City officials sounded the alarm over the crumbling Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, there is still no consensus about what to do with this vital but outdated highway, which carries 129,000 vehicles a day. https://t.co/IDpjsv1Os4

[New York News @NewYorkSEO123]

Inside the Designer Birdhouses of Brooklyn https://t.co/ITyjnfCurg

[Robert Gebeloff @gebeloffnyt]

1)In normal times, large northern cities shed population via migration but make up for it via immigration and natural pop increase. 2021 was in many ways not normal. New story with @danagoldstein and @winnhu https://t.co/mLwNK6iCa2

[Kellen Browning @Kellen_Browning]

Our updated story on today's big news on the Uber-taxi company partnership in New York City. It's an agreement that, after years of bitter fighting, seems in some ways "like water and oil."

With @WinnHu and @karenzraick. https://t.co/ElhNuWgbos

[Derek M. Norman @derek_m_norman]

It's been a very tough week and a hard punch to the gut for many of us, learning that a close colleague, mentor and friend had died. Timothy Williams was my team leader over the past year, covering the impact of the coronavirus in prisons across the country

[Winnie Hu @WinnHu]

Move over drones. Your Amazon and UPS packages could soon arrive in Manhattan by old-fashioned ferry. w/@JackEwingNYT
https://t.co/GjNOm8G9x8

[Winnie Hu @WinnHu]

NYC sits on top of hundreds of hidden waterways. This is why a three-decade campaign to unearth Tibbetts Brook has taken on new urgency with climate change. w/@nerdishtendency

https://t.co/3nyYUw4WDv

[spiccoli.bsky.social @spiccoli]

If it feels like you're yelling "Taxi!" into a spiraling cosmic void, @WinnHu, @NYTpatrick and I are here to help you understand why https://t.co/5VGLtvBHcZ

[spiccoli.bsky.social @spiccoli]

Hibernation over for New York subways. Story with @WinnHu and @nateschweber bookending the night last May when the MTA pulled the brake on 115 years of nonstop service to fight the virus. (Nightly cleanings will continue alongside 24-7 service.) https://t.co/vvsMug31MI

[Nicole Hong @nicole_hong]

Even as we see more and more reports of anti-Asian attacks, the video of a Filipino woman being kicked on the sidewalk in Manhattan touched a fresh nerve.

The attack happened in broad daylight as security guards in a nearby building watched.

https://t.co/OOA1N2pTza

[Winnie Hu @WinnHu]

Sofas, refrigerators, coffee makers, TVs. The stacks of cargo containers at the Port of New York and New Jersey can tell a lot about how people spent their year at home in the pandemic.
https://t.co/hEbnXkc9yA

[PCAC to the MTA (🦋@pcac.org) @PCACriders]

They Set Aside Money for Their Commutes. Now They Can’t Get It Back. “I hear from people when they’re unhappy and this is one of the biggest things they’re unhappy about,” said Gerry Bringmann, chair of the LIRRCC. @SenSchumer @SenGillibrand please help! https://t.co/KLfto9JP2i

[Tony Dutzik @FrontierTony]

Commuter tax benefit programs spur people to ride transit, but they're likely to be much less effective if people risk losing the money they set aside. Detailed story by @WinnHu featuring yours truly in the @nytimes.
https://t.co/xnHCWMhJ4Q

[Christina Goldbaum @cegoldbaum]

The MTA was pulled from crisis by billions in federal aid. But as an agency that relies on fares to operate, it needs riders to return to survive in the long run. Will they?

Our deep dive on the future of NYC transit a year into the pandemic: https://t.co/EuUVLyWFCG

[Christina Goldbaum @cegoldbaum]

President Biden’s stimulus package includes the largest single infusion of federal aid that public transportation has ever received.

What does that mean for riders across the country?

Read our breakdown w/ @pranshuverma_ @NickAtNews https://t.co/M5jStjdPSg

[Winnie Hu @WinnHu]

In a city with 25,000 restaurants, bars and nightclubs, New Yorkers kept going back to this Chinatown dim sum hall for 28 years. Jing Fong was so much more than just somewhere to eat. w/ @anjalitsui and Melissa Guerrero. https://t.co/nvrPunZB2u

[Winnie Hu @WinnHu]

Leaky roofs. Mold. Rats. The backlog of needed repairs in New York City public housing soars to 474,790. “If you’re asking people to stay home because of the pandemic and they’re living in terrible conditions, how is that fair to them?” w/@nateschweber https://t.co/fJJw6YNTvM

[Winnie Hu @WinnHu]

No paycheck. No savings. Behind on rent. Rationing food. This is pandemic life in West Farms, a Bronx neighborhood where 1 in 4 are out of work. w/@julianahyekim @MilitaJo @alfiky_amr
https://t.co/xqoSH9H49S

[Christina Goldbaum @cegoldbaum]

NEW: Getting back on the subway and worried about coronavirus?

Here's a (pretty cool) interactive graphic with everything you need to know about how air flows through a subway car

https://t.co/8tIJ1BJ92G