Published Aug. 3, 2024, 11:03 a.m. ET
By Matthew Sedacca
Seven Staten Island pols are pressing Gov. Hochul to remove an MTA board member who recommended stripping the forgotten borough of its promised new railcars.
The reps penned a letter to the governor excoriating the “outwardly hostile bias and callousness” of nonvoting MTA board member Norman Brown at a June committee meeting on the now-paused $15 congestion pricing tolling program.
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Published June 23, 2024, 5:14 p.m. ET
By Carl Campanile
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has halted construction projects at two Queens rail stations to put pressure on Gov. Kathy Hochul after she knocked down the unpopular congestion pricing plan, sources said.
The MTA sent a letter ordering a contractor to immediately suspend work on making its Long Island Railroad stations in Forest Hills and Hollis more accessible to riders with disabilities
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Published June 8, 2024, 10:44 a.m. ET
By Rich Calder
The Hochul administration is staring at the grim prospect of having to flush a half-billion dollars in taxpayer money down the toilet over the botched congestion pricing scheme.
The boondoggle could’ve been avoided had Gov. Kathy Hochul and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority seriously studied what the economic impact on New York residents and businesses would be by charging drivers $15 to enter parts of Manhattan, critics said.
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Published June 5, 2024 Updated June 5, 2024, 12:19 p.m. ET
By Carl Campanile , Craig McCarthy , Vaughn Golden and Olivia Land
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is ditching the MTA congestion pricing plan indefinitely — with insiders saying she’s worried that it’s “not the right time” as New Yorkers face a cost-of-living crisis.
Hochul announced plans to delay the $15 toll’s June 30 start date on Wednesday, citing the increased cost on working people, including teachers and firefighters.
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Published March 12, 2024, 7:16 p.m. ET
By Joe Borelli
John Samuelsen, president of the 155,000-member Transit Workers of America, is blasting the latest version of congestion pricing for failing to improve express bus service to the outer-boroughs.
He’s right. But his principal complaint was more visceral: For him, congestion pricing’s biggest outrage is that it’s “classist.”
Boy, is it!
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Published Feb. 14, 2024, 5:33 p.m. ET
By Joe Borelli
Congestion pricing cameras set up in Manhattan. Christopher Sadowski
Turn on the news, and you are bound to hear any one of a number of congestion pricing’s most sycophantic promoters telling us we must look to our sister city across the pond to see the fruits of its implementation.
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Published: Feb. 07, 2024, 5:50 a.m.
By Paul Liotta | pliotta@siadvance.com
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Staten Island’s delegation of elected officials and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey are working to ensure that 300 employees who previously staffed a local E-ZPass office are rehired by a new contractor.
The office of Councilwoman Kamillah Hanks (D-North Shore) shared correspondence between the elected officials and the Port Authority laying out their efforts to ensure workers at the South Avenue E-ZPass office do not end up unemployed.
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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. 21, 2023, 5:13 p.m.|Published: Dec. 21, 2023, 3:23 p.m.
Erik Bascome | tbascome@siadvance.com
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Late-night riders of the Staten Island Railway (SIR) can now feel safer entering and exiting the Great Kills train station.
On Tuesday, Councilman Joe Borelli (R-South Shore) announced that new lighting fixtures have been installed in a dark alley at the rear entrance of the station.
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Updated: Apr. 25, 2023, 9:37 a.m. | Published: Apr. 24, 2023, 2:24 p.m.
By Kristin F. Dalton | kdalton@siadvance.com
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – Borough President Vito Fossella called a stabbing at the Great Kills station of the Staten Island Railway (SIR) on Friday and other recent incidents of violent crime the direct result of the “turnstile concept of justice.”
Fossella, Rep.
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