Press & records
Source documents, chronologies, and analysis on Penn Station, regional rail, governance, and congestion pricing — organized for press use and background research.
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Infrastructure decisions close faster than the public record can support them. I work with civic organizations, funders, journalists, and legal teams to test operating assumptions, surface missing analysis, and keep better options visible while there is still time to act.
The work connects records, operating assumptions, cost estimates, environmental review, procurement language, and visual alternatives — making the better option concrete enough to defend, quote, and act on before the window closes.
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The work covers three linked areas.
Decision support
Records review, assumption testing, and decision memos for boards, coalitions, funders, and campaigns with live decisions on the table.
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FOIA, FOIL, OPRA, and chronology work to surface the document record behind major infrastructure proposals.
View records archiveFeatured cases
Two cases where assembling the record forced different questions.
Penn Station records and the FRA service-optimization study
Question. What analytical basis supported Penn Station expansion decisions, and where did the public record fail to support the claims behind them?
Work. Built a records archive, filed FOIA and FOIL appeals, traced the planning chronology, and translated technical and procedural gaps into a public-facing case.
What changed. The records work documented gaps in the cost and capacity analysis underpinning expansion decisions and contributed to the Federal Railroad Administration opening an independent Penn Station Service Optimization Study.
The governance case for NJ Transit reform
Question. What structure of governance analysis converts documented board failures and rider frustration into a legislative blueprint?
Work. Contributed to the research, governance analysis, and policy framing that translated documented structural failures into a legislative blueprint.
What changed. The analysis contributed to an enacted reform that expanded the board, created dedicated rider seats, and strengthened independent oversight.
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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, governance, alternatives, and stated public benefits against the documented record.
Typical output: Assumption memo, rebuttal, issue brief.
Map the decision path
Identify the vote, approval, financing action, hearing, procurement step, or legal threshold where timing still matters.
Typical output: Decision calendar, leverage map, testimony plan.
Make the alternative usable
Translate operating cases, records findings, and design concepts into briefings, public comments, visual futures, and decision packages that people can quote, defend, and act on.
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, operating analysis, and public alternatives, I produce conceptual renderings and illustrated narratives that translate infrastructure proposals into images people can recognize, critique, and support.
The work combines public records, historical research, site photography, AI-assisted image generation, and compositing to produce visuals for campaigns, coalitions, institutions, and publications.
BQE / Off-Ramp NYC
Concept renderings featured in CityNerd's BQE episode, built to make an alternative to reconstruction visible and comparable.
View BQE workPenn Station concepts
Renderings for Penn Station through-running and expansion alternatives, grounded in planning and operating context.
Open Penn hubIllustrated futures
Cover and campaign-style images that compress a regional or civic 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, record, or proposal.
Decisions that appear settled often are not. The work identifies where the record falls short, what analysis is missing, and where the window for a better option is still open.
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