Updated: Jul. 02, 2024, 2:01 p.m. | Published: Jul. 02, 2024, 7:00 a.m.
By Pamela Silvestri | silvestri@siadvance.com
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Faith leaders and pantry operators had been holding their breath after the mayor proposed $31.2 million in cuts to a city program that serves 22 pantries across the Island, with an emphasis on fresh food.
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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. 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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Updated: Jan. 12, 2023, 3:22 p.m. | Published: Jan. 12, 2023, 2:52 p.m.
By Paul Liotta | pliotta@siadvance.com
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Rollout of New York City’s congestion pricing plan has long been delayed, and on Thursday, City Councilman Joseph Borelli (R-South Shore) said it was with good reason as he took his latest swipe at a similar international program.
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