Perhaps I'm Being a Naysayer

But I really don't find the whole Big Apps initiative that interesting because the city data I think is most interesting is transit data, and that won't be included.

And that highlights one of the most retarded things about transit development in NYC - it's controlled by a regional authority, and not the city.

Think about this sentence: NYC does not have control of its own transit system.

You can go on and on about how nice it is to share power with the state, or upstate republicans, or naussau county republicans who insist on driving to work and scuttling the LIRR and Metro North, but who's city is this, anyway?