Press & records
Source documents, chronologies, and analysis on Penn Station, regional rail, governance, and congestion pricing, organized for press use and background research.
View press resourcesMake the better option legible before decisions harden.
Infrastructure decisions close faster than the public record can support them. I work with civic organizations, funders, journalists, and legal teams to test the assumptions behind major projects while there is still time to act.
That work starts with the record: contracts, cost models, operating assumptions, environmental review, procurement language. It ends with an alternative concrete enough that people can quote it, defend it, and act on it.
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Three ways into the work.
Decision support
Records review, assumption testing, and decision memos for boards, coalitions, funders, and campaigns facing a live decision.
See selected workRecords practice
FOIA, FOIL, and OPRA requests, appeals, and chronologies that pull the document record behind major proposals into public view.
View records archiveFeatured cases
Two cases where the record changed the question.
Penn Station records and the FRA service-optimization study
Question. What analysis supported Penn Station expansion, and where did the public record fall short of the claims built on it?
Work. I built a records archive, filed FOIA and FOIL appeals, traced the planning chronology, and turned the gaps into a public case.
What changed. The archive documented holes in the cost and capacity analysis behind expansion and contributed to the Federal Railroad Administration opening an independent Penn Station Service Optimization Study.
The governance case for NJ Transit reform
Question. How do you turn documented board failures and rider frustration into a bill a legislature will pass?
Work. I contributed research, governance analysis, and policy framing to the reform effort.
What changed. The enacted reform expanded the board, created dedicated rider seats, and strengthened independent oversight.
Read the governance caseMethod
From scattered assumptions to a usable decision record.
Assemble the record
Gather agency documents, contracts, models, presentations, emails, environmental materials, and procurement language.
Typical output: Records index, chronology, document map.
Clarify the assumptions
Test cost, capacity, ridership, operations, phasing, and stated public benefits against the documented record.
Typical output: Assumption memo, rebuttal, issue brief.
Map the decision path
Find the vote, approval, financing action, hearing, or procurement step where timing still matters.
Typical output: Decision calendar, leverage map, testimony plan.
Make the alternative usable
Turn records findings, operating cases, and design concepts into briefings, public comments, and visuals people can put in front of a decision-maker.
Typical output: Briefing memo, public comment, visual package, or deck.
Visual work
Visual futures for infrastructure decisions
Some decisions only move when people can see the alternative. Alongside records work and operating analysis, I produce conceptual renderings and illustrated narratives that turn infrastructure proposals into images people can recognize and argue over.
I build them from public records, historical research, site photography, and AI-assisted compositing, for campaigns, coalitions, institutions, and publications.
BQE / Off-Ramp NYC
Concept renderings featured in CityNerd's BQE episode, built to make an alternative to full reconstruction visible and comparable.
View BQE workPenn Station concepts
Renderings of through-running and expansion alternatives, grounded in the planning and operating record.
Open Penn hubIllustrated futures
Cover and campaign images that compress a regional argument into a single recognizable scene.
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Roles and affiliations.
Chair, Transportation & Infrastructure
The City Club of New York
Associate Director
Permanent Citizens Advisory Committee to the MTA
Policy & Communications Manager
Tri-State Transportation Campaign
Transportation Analyst
ReThink Studio
Bring a live decision.
Decisions that look settled often are not. Tell me what you are facing. I will tell you where the record falls short and whether a better option is still in reach.
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