Article: New York transit board head gets a Ferrari.

Byline: Pete Donohue

May 5--Three days before Peter Kalikow chaired an MTA board meeting and refused to vote on a transit union contract, he sat in a much plusher seat -- that of his custom-made Ferrari as it was unveiled in sunny Italy.

With dark sunglasses, a striped button-down shirt and a wry smile, Kalikow posed on April 23 for photographs in the one-of-a-kind collector's car at the 2006 Villa d'Este Concorso d'Eleganza, a prestigious auto show held amid sculpted gardens and historic manors on the banks of Lake Como.

The special Ferrari 612 Scaglietti was fashioned according to detailed instructions drafted by the millionaire developer, ...

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