After months of tense debate over financing for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, state and city officials on Saturday announced a deal to pay for the authority’s ambitious plans to repair and expand the nation’s largest transit system, with New York City agreeing to sharply increase its contribution to the authority, a move state officials had demanded. The agreement resolves a long and publicly contentious standoff between Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio over whether the city should pay significantly more toward the five-year $29 billion capital plan — the authority’s largest ever — which will cover the cost of maintenance and improvements to the sprawling network of subways, buses and commuter rail lines. Transportation officials and transit advocates had warned that the spending plan was vital to ensuring that the region’s public transit system could meet a growing list of challenges, including an aging subway system struggling to handle booming ridership … [Read more...] about New York City and State Reach Agreement on M.T.A. Capital Plan
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New York City Restaurant Week Kicks Off Tuesday
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — New York City Restaurant Week kicks off Tuesday. Hundreds of restaurants are offering special pre-fix menus for both lunch and dinner. READ MORE: New York City Students Return From Holiday Weekend To Revised Attendance Policy The promotion starts Tuesday and runs until February 13. READ MORE: Former NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio Says He Will Not Run For Governor Options include a two-course lunch or a three-course dinner. Prices will be set at $29, $39, or $59. Many of the deals are Monday through Friday only, and reservations are recommended. MORE NEWS: Candlelight Vigil Tonight For Michelle Go, Woman Pushed In Front Of Train At Times Square Subway Station CLICK HERE for a list of participating restaurants and more … [Read more...] about New York City Restaurant Week Kicks Off Tuesday
Key to Improving Subway Service in New York? Modern Signals
At a subway station deep under Manhattan, a dingy room is filled with rows of antique equipment built before World War II. The weathered glass boxes and cloth-covered cables are not part of a museum exhibit, however — they are crucial pieces of the signal system that directs traffic in one of the busiest subways in the world. Much of the signal equipment at that station, at West Fourth Street, is decades beyond its life span, and it is one of the main culprits plaguing the overburdened subway. As New York City’s sprawling subway faces a deepening crisis over delays , the Metropolitan Transportation Authority says that modernizing the signals is a top priority. But the rollout of a new signal network is unfolding at a glacial pace even as the subway system is straining under the demands of a booming ridership. Two decades after the agency began its push to upgrade signals, work has been completed on just one line. At the current pace, transforming every subway line could take … [Read more...] about Key to Improving Subway Service in New York? Modern Signals
‘Money Out of Your Pocket’: New Yorkers Tell of Subway Delay Woes
It was 8:30 a.m. on a Tuesday during the height of the morning rush on the nation’s busiest subway. Suddenly, power went out at one station in Brooklyn, but that lone failure triggered a meltdown that crippled service across New York City, stranding countless commuters whose plans for the day were derailed. One woman never made it to housing court and now faces eviction. Another missed a doctor appointment made months earlier. A graphic designer lost $100 in wages. A computer technician paid more than $50 for an Uber car to make a meeting. A lawyer was late for a sentencing. A pastry chef who needs every hour of work he can scrounge lost an hour and a half of pay. A psychoanalyst never made it to her session with a patient. Neither did her patient. These are the very real human costs, financial and otherwise, of a single subway disruption — just one painful delay in what has become a season of transit misery . On this day, like so many others, New Yorkers missed job interviews, … [Read more...] about ‘Money Out of Your Pocket’: New Yorkers Tell of Subway Delay Woes
As Subway Riders Fume, City and State Leaders Are Mostly Mum
A signal malfunction at the height of the morning commute in New York City upends subway service from Brooklyn to the Bronx. Switch problems leave riders stranded across Brooklyn. A power failure at just one Manhattan station snarls nearly a dozen of the system’s 22 lines. Through this list of recent woes, the person most responsible for ensuring that the trains run on time, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York, has remained mostly silent as subway service gets worse by the day. Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat who may be weighing a presidential run in 2020, has eagerly sought to burnish his legacy by focusing on infrastructure, from personally unveiling the first part of the Second Avenue subway to taking an inaugural joy ride across the new Kosciuszko Bridge . But the subway, the lifeblood of the city and arguably the most critical piece of infrastructure Mr. Cuomo controls, is falling apart on his watch. “Governor Cuomo shows up to open the Second Avenue subway, but he’s missing in … [Read more...] about As Subway Riders Fume, City and State Leaders Are Mostly Mum
Bill de Blasio Will Not Run for New York Governor
Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) announced on Tuesday he will not run for governor of New York, ending speculation about his intentions to do so. “No, I am not going to be running for governor in New York State, but I am going to devote every fiber of my being to fight inequality in the state of New York,” he said in a video posted to social media Tuesday morning. “We’ve got a lot to do together. I’m gonna share some more news with you in the days ahead. And let’s keep this fight going because we proved change can happen in New York,” he continued: I am not going to be running for Governor of New York State, but I am going to devote every fiber of my being to fighting inequality in the state of New York. pic.twitter.com/cBZ03BpO0s — Bill de Blasio (@BilldeBlasio) January 18, 2022 His announcement comes weeks after handing the mayoral reins to Eric Adams (D), who essentially gave up to one million noncitizens in the city access to the ballot box after … [Read more...] about Bill de Blasio Will Not Run for New York Governor
