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.
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Published: Jan. 27, 2024, 4:59 p.m.
By Paul Liotta | pliotta@siadvance.com
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Borough President Vito Fossella announced Friday an updated complaint in his federal court case against New York’s congestion pricing plan — likening it to one of Staten Island’s greatest environmental disasters.
Fossella brought the lawsuit earlier this month with the United Federation of Teachers, led by Staten Islander Michael Mulgrew and a host of the city’s public school teachers.
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