Reader’s ‘real deal’ behind transit strike
		
		Please let me cut to the chase, and offer the short version in 50 words or less. The MTA leaned hard on the union to have workers pay a portion of their health and pension costs which the MTA said was needed to adhere to frugal austerity goals, and would		 
		
	Throw the key away
		
		The police say they captured the alleged robber, Darrel Cordes, as he tried to exit an MTA bus on the Horace Harding Expressway in Flushing. Bus driver Courtney Granston allegedly saw the man rifling through the pocketbook of an elderly woman and radioed		 
		
	Thank You, CB6!
		
		Editor’s Note: This is a copy of a letter sent to Community Board 6 in response to the board’s vote against a composting facility under the elevated subway at 2nd Avenue and 10th Street. 
		 
		
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