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The article reports on the various potholes faced by New York City in tightening the regulation to transport company Uber. Topics mentioned include the missing data in surge pricing, the avoid by the city officials to fight with the company and not hinder their growth, and the approach to law professor Robert Jackson on potential for-hire vehicle regulations.

The article reports on data from New York City's Taxi and Limousine Commission drivers from smartphone-driven car service Uber took city riders on more than 100,000 trips on the average day in July 2015, a fourfold increase from last year.

The article reports on the preparation of the New York City in handling a potential strike by Hurricane Joaquin.

The article reports that the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is thinking about ending a ban on flights longer than 1,500 miles from La Guardia Airport in New York City. Mike Boyd of consultancy Boyd Group International said such a move would introduce flights to the U.S. West Coast from La Guardia at the cost of fewer flights to smaller and closer cities. Delta Air Lines Inc. has reportedly been lobbying the port authority for longer flights.

The article reports that car-hailing services providers such as Uber does not provide significant advantages to the issues of increasing traffic congestion in Manhattan, New York, according to the study.

The article reports that a deal with developer Larry Silverstein was closed by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which will see the former finishing new office towers at the World Trade Center site.

The article offers news briefs in the U.S. as of November 13, 2015 including the federal mediation board's attempt to resolve labor disputes in New Jersey Transit, the deployment of New York City police officer to crack down traffic violations, and the drug charges of student Zachary Kramer.

This section offers news briefs in Greater New York including the ruling from the Hillsborough Township Historic Preservation Commission approving the demolition of a historic mansion on the Duke Farms property and the planned international competition of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey for a new bus terminal.

The article discusses the role of social media websites such as Twitter and Facebook in promoting protests in New York City because of the U.S. grand jury's decision not to indict the police officer who killed African American Eric Garner.