Hello, I'm City Journal editor Brian Anderson.

Thanks for joining us for the Ten Blocks podcast featuring urban policy and cultural commentary

with City Journal editors, contributors, and special guests.

Hello, everyone. My name is Steve Melanga, senior editor at City Journal.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey was founded in 1921 to quell the squabbling between the two states for control over the New York Harbor.

It was conceived as a good government agency

that was supposed to be organized to operate efficiently and beyond politics. Today, the

authority is responsible for operations and security for some of the largest transit and shipping

hubs in the world and for some of the region's most valuable real estate. But it has been

embroiled in controversy for decades.

City Journal has written several articles dedicated to problems at the Port Authority,

from bloated budgets to unmanageable assets to political corruption.

Our latest piece, the New York Police Force that doesn't work,

is on controversy surrounding the law enforcement

agency responsible for security at Port Authority properties, a force of 1,900 officers

operating entirely separate from the NYPD or other state agencies.

The piece, written by Judy Miller, includes revelations about a till now secret report,

which found that the Port Authority's security practices were profoundly deficient at every level,

in every key functional area. Judy is a contributing editor to City Journal and a fellow

at the Manhattan Institute. Before she was with us, Judy was a reporter with the New York Times,

where she was part of a team that won the Pulitzer Prize.

Judy, thanks for joining us.

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