Depending on your definition of a “major aspect of the city that required reconstruction,” this might not be quite the last. Work is still continuing on building the replacement for the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church.

I can see the demographic logic of a soccer stadium in Queens, but as a lifelong resident of the neighborhood, I can tell you that Flushing Meadows-Corona Park is very heavily used and can't afford to lose acreage. The promise of make-up land elsewhere is nice, but there's nothing suitable nearby, certainly not within…

In phase one of his career, at Apple, and in phase two, at Next, Steve Jobs built automated automated production lines that were at, or maybe past, the leading edge of what was practical at those times.

These could be great, IF they can be mass-produced cheaply enough.

Just to be clear, these are used by the folks who work on the right of way (i.e., the tracks, signals, third-rail, etc.), not the train operators.

Thanks for the provocative article. There are some minor scratches — a few too many worshipful invocations of Dieter Rams — but it doesn't break when dropped.