A visibly angered Gov. Kathy Hochul addresses the demand by the Trump Administration to cease the New York Congestion Pricing program. ( Photo: Office of NYS Governor) Hochul Fires Back after “King” Trump Tries to End Congestion Pricing with Edict It is all out war over congestion pricing after President Donald Trump’s Department of Transportation issued an edict to... News 20 Feb 2025 | 04:43
Congestion pricing tolls after one month showed commute times way down, but traffic in-zone not moving much faster than it was a year earlier. ( Photo: Ralph Spielman) Congestion Pricing at 1 Month: Faster Commutes but Slower Ambulance Response Times The controversial congestion pricing toll after its first four weeks has succeeded in reducing commute times into the city... News 13 Feb 2025 | 06:16
Riders on a recent SBS M60 bus in Manhattan have the option of getting a ride ticket at stops or using their OMNY cards or phones to pay. The MTA estimates that 40 percent of bus riders don’t pay. ( Photo: Ralph Spielman) MTA Fare Evasion Down Thanks to Crackdown but Losses Still Staggering While the numbers for bus and subway fare-beating are down somewhat, one out of 10 subway riders is not paying their legal... News 03 Feb 2025 | 02:37
Owner Bruce Caulfield stands at the front of his brand new Penn Cellars wine and spirits store in Penn Station Long Island Rail Road Concourse which opened on December 23, 2024. ( Photo: Ralph Spielman) Restaurant Delayed at GCM, but Beer/Wine Will Soon Flow at Mini Tracks; Wine Cellar Opens in Penn As the Grand Central Madison terminal and concourse observes its second anniversary of opening on January 25, its retail... News 13 Jan 2025 | 04:15
The MTA wants to buy 435 more of the subway cars known as the R211s. Pictured here is the inaugural ride of the first R211A subway to enter customer service, from 207 St on the A line on Friday, Mar 10, 2023, taken at 145th Street in Manhattan. As of 2027, there were be 1610 Kawasaki-built R211s, including the open-gangway cars, the single unit R211A as pictured here. ( Photo: Marc A. Hermann / MTA) Cameras Will be in 435 New Subway Cars that MTA Wants to Buy for $1.27B–But Only If New Budget Gets OK The good news: at its last board meeting of 2024, the MTA tentatively approved a $1.27 billion contract to purchase 435 new... News 03 Jan 2025 | 01:35
MTA Chair & CEO Janno Lieber (right) and MTA Construction & Development President Jamie Torres-Springer (at podium) are jointed by NYCT President Demetrius Crichlow, and MTA Chief Accessibility Officer Quemuel Arroyo to announce that the 14 St Station on the F/L/M/1/2/3 lines is fully ADA accessible on Thursday, Dec 19, 2024. ( Photo: Marc A. Hermann/MTA) MTA Holiday Presents: Completes Nearly $500M in Renovations at E. 68th St. and W. 14th St. Subway Stations While Subway riding Holiday shoppers, visitors and other travelers were riding through Manhattan in recent days, the Metropolitan... News 26 Dec 2024 | 06:51
Vintage ads, such as the Coca Cola ad to the rear of the car, adorn the 1930s era subway cars which are providing today’s passengers a chance to travel back in time. The vintage cars run on Sundays only. ( Photo: Ralph Spielman) Time Travel Treat for DT and UES Sunday Subway Riders; Metro North Gets into Spirit too Nostalgia trains are riding again, every Sunday on the New York City subway lines and now Metro North is getting into the... News 04 Dec 2024 | 05:37
John Tauranac has spent a long academic and literary career in Manhattan; known for his chairmanship of an MTA Map Committee that produced the subway map in current use, he has created a 2024 enhanced poster size version, easier to read and filled with more detail than currently available. ( Photo: Ralph Spielman) Man who Oversaw Subway Map Redesign 50 Years Ago is Pushing a New Version The subway map that John Tuaranac oversaw more than 50 years ago and which is still in use today is referred to as the Tuaranac... News 01 Nov 2024 | 02:42
MTA Chair & CEO Janno Lieber, Chief Customer Officer Shanifah Rieara, Metro-North President Catherine Rinaldi, and NYCT President Demetrius Crichlow host a local media roundtable for Manhattan, Bronx, and Hudson Valley outlets at the West Farms Depot on Friday, Oct 25, 2024. ( Marc A. Hermann / Metropolitan Transportation Auth) Transit Bigwigs Address State of the Train & Bus Systems On Friday October 25, the poobahs of New York City and state public transportation held a 90-minute a roundtable event with... News 28 Oct 2024 | 05:01
The Nostalgia Train looped around the Old City Hall Station, much as the inaugural subway did in its first run on October 27 1904. The station is no longer used by regular passenger-carrying subway trains, one of many “ghost stations” that the four-train nostaglia train visited last weekend. ( Photo: Ralph Spielman) “Ghost Stations” on Itinerary As Nostalgia Train Hauls Subway Passengers Back in Time Five hundred lucky New Yorkers took a trip back in time last weekend on a special four-train nostalgia ride that included... News 28 Oct 2024 | 12:46
MTA Chair & CEO Janno Lieber (at mic) hosts a groundbreaking ceremony with developer BXP at the 343 Madison Av. site on Tuesday, Oct 1, 2024, At the event were (from left) State Senator Liz Krueger, Daniel Garodnick, City Coucil Memer Keith Powers, Assembly Member Alex Bores, Lieber, City Planning Executive Director Edith Hsu-Chen, BXP EVP Hilary Spann, MTA C&D President Jamie Torres-Springer, BXP SVP Rich Monopoli, LIRR President Rob Free. ( Photo: Marc A. Hermann / Metropolitan Transportation Auth) Work Begins on New Entrance to Grand Central Madison...but It Won’t Open for 18 Months A new entrance to Grand Central Madison, the MTA’s $11.1 billion station that sits a quarter mile underground, is being erected... News 04 Oct 2024 | 03:14
The new MTA Capital Plan will include over 1,500 new subway cars, some destined for the 1 and 3 trains, whose equipment started running in 1984. ( Photo: Ralph Spielman) MTA Seeks $68.4 Billion for Capital Improvements: Will Albany Find a Way to Fund It? “Fix what you have” said MTA Chair/CEO Janno Lieber at the conclusion of the MTA’s monthly board meeting in late September... News 30 Sep 2024 | 03:10
A new joint NYPD/Sanitation Dept task force is now charged with removing so-called ghost cars that are parked on city streets. In the past, the crackdown focused on spotting moving vehicles in traffic on city bridges. In the new push, Fifteen NYPD officers will be assigned to a new interagency task force. ( Photo: Ralph Spielman) New Ghost Car Crackdown Now Grabbing Parked Cars from NYC Streets; Over 1,000 Seized So Far In the latest crackdown on ghost cars–vehicles with altered or missing license plates–the city now says it will begin grabbing... News 23 Sep 2024 | 10:58
The Great Elephant Migration has mounted public art in a unique way: 100 elephants in an orderly faux migration along lower 9th Avenue, a sight for Gotham residents to behold. They will be residing in this space until October 20. ( Photo: Ralph Spielman) One Hundred Life-Size Elephant Sculptures Thunder into Meatpacking District A herd of 100 elephants thundered into the Meatpacking district earlier this month, but there is no danger of being trampled.... News 16 Sep 2024 | 11:39
The MTA lawsuit involves access to the three buildings along the east side of Second Avenue between 108th and 111th Streets and the agency said two landlords are blocking access to their buildings which need to be assessed before work can continue. While the first building is located at what will be the northern end of the 106th Street Station, the structures a block away adjoin a tunnel that was built for the project in the 1970s. ( Photo: MTA Design and Construction.) Second Avenue Subway Stall: Two Landlords Hit with Lawsuit by MTA for Blocking Access The Second Ave. subway expansion has come to a screeching halt because the MTA claims a couple of East Harlem landlords are... Home 28 Aug 2024 | 10:21
