Published Feb. 6, 2024 Updated Feb. 6, 2024, 3:31 p.m. ET
By Post Editorial Board
Opposition to New York’s coming congestion pricing continues to snowball — and rightly so.
The United Federation of Teachers and Staten Island Borough President Vito Fossella are suing to stop the scheme to raise MTA revenue by taxing drivers entering Midtown Manhattan south of 60th Street, and a real gorilla just joined in:
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Published Feb. 4, 2024, 8:10 p.m. ET
By Carl Campanile
Eighteen elected officials have joined a federal lawsuit by the teachers union aimed at blocking the controversial new $15 congestion pricing toll to enter Midtown Manhattan.
More than half the plaintiffs are Democrats whose fellow party members approved the law greenlighting congestion pricing in 2019.
UTF President Mike Mulgrew and Staten Island Borough President Vito Fossella welcomed the growing, bipartisan coalition who object to having constituents and members pay such a high toll to drive into Midtown south of 60th Street.
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Updated: Dec. 11, 2023, 5:55 p.m.|Published: Dec. 11, 2023, 12:01 p.m.
By Paul Liotta | pliotta@siadvance.com
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A looming court decision brought out a group of elected officials and political activists Monday to speak out against what they characterized as a possible gerrymander.
New York’s Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court, heard arguments Nov.
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Updated: Jun. 06, 2023, 7:41 p.m. | Published: Jun. 06, 2023, 6:26 p.m.
By Paul Liotta | pliotta@siadvance.com
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Mayor Eric Adams stood by Monday as a local non-profit leader said during a press briefing that two Staten Island churches would soon house migrants, but on Tuesday, Republican elected officials disputed those comments.
Assemblyman Michael Reilly (R-South Shore) tweeted a statement calling the Advance/SILive.com’s report on those statements inaccurate, citing unnamed city officials.
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Published: May. 16, 2023, 7:00 a.m.
By Paul Liotta | pliotta@siadvance.com
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — It appears part of a new strategy from Mayor Eric Adams’ administration to deal with the large influx of migrants coming into New York City is to use vacant Department of Education properties as temporary housing.
The former Richard H. Hungerford School on Tompkins Avenue in Clifton saw its first wave of migrant arrivals Sunday evening as the city searches for options to house new arrivals in the five boroughs.
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Updated: May. 05, 2023, 6:57 p.m. | Published: May. 05, 2023, 5:32 p.m.
By Paul Liotta | pliotta@siadvance.com
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Anyone driving into lower Manhattan will soon have to pay a hefty fee after the federal government okayed the state’s congestion pricing plan Friday.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s Chief of External Relations John McCarthy issued a statement saying the agency had received a needed and long-awaited letter of legal sufficiency from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) saying they could move ahead with the controversial plan.
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By Joe Borelli February 16, 2023 8:46pm Updated
Ask any woke politician worth his weight what the biggest crisis facing New York City is, and the answer will almost inevitably be the lack of affordable housing. And though there are more than 40,000 vacant apartments in need of major renovations that could significantly alleviate this problem within months, these same officials don’t want to acknowledge the economic reality of what it will take to
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By Bernadette Hogan and Nolan Hicks December 5, 2022 1:58pm Updated
A freshman Democratic councilman in New York City announced Monday that he is switching his political affiliation to the Republican Party — saying he’s disenchanted with the far-left, soft-on-crime bent of his own party these days — and will take on a former ally for a redrawn Brooklyn district.
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