New York offered New Jersey a measly $3 discount for its drivers crossing into Manhattan to try to offset the new $9 Midtown toll, but Garden State officials scoffed the break would mean virtually nothing once the tax jumps to $15, sources say. The pooh-poohed proposal was pitched during secret court-ordered negotiations to try to … Read more
Congestion pricing is full speed ahead — again. Gov. Kathy Hochul officially announced Thursday that she will lift her “pause” on the controversial toll program for New York City — paving the way it to take effect by the New Year. Cars entering Manhattan below 60th Street will face $9 day-time base tolls starting in … Read more
More New Yorkers than ever despise the Big Apple’s proposed congestion-pricing toll — but Gov. Kathy Hochul’s move to indefinitely halt the plan hasn’t meant any popularity boost for her, a new poll shows. According to the statewide Siena College poll, 59% of New York voters want to scrap the congestion pricing scheme for Manhattan … Read more
Gov. Kathy Hochul scuttled the congestion toll to enter Midtown because she believes too many people are afraid to take the subway so they drive in instead, ex-Gov. David Paterson said Sunday. “What she told me in a private conversation was she just thought about people who were afraid to ride the subways, so they … Read more
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is reportedly considering tapping the brakes on the state’s controversial congestion pricing plan over worries that it could hurt House Democrats in November’s election, insiders hinted. Hochul’s camp has recently started voicing concerns about the plan to charge motorists $15 for entering Manhattan south of 60th Street, three people familiar … Read more
Commercial truck drivers have joined the long list of opponents who’ve filed lawsuits to block the controversial first-in-nation congestion toll to enter parts of Manhattan. The Trucking Association of New York (TANY) slammed the congestion pricing program as unconstitutional and a “scheme for which there is no prior precedent in this country” in a suit … Read more
The Issue: Gov. Hochul’s veto of an MTA plan to charge a $750,000 fee to run the New York Marathon. Kudos to Gov. Hochul for nixing the insane bridge fee and putting the MTA in its place (“Kat: I toll you no!” April 5). Now continue with bail reform and put the criminals in their … Read more
New York City Council members feeling the heat from thousands of angry co-op and condo owners are urging state pols to OK tax breaks over a new “green” mandate that could cost more than $20,000 per unit. The City Council had actually approved the mandate, the Climate Mobilization Emissions Law, in 2019 requiring residential buildings to initially … Read more
Here we go again. First Mayor Adams tried (and failed) to ship migrants to upstate counties following his defiant declaration, “New York City will remain a sanctuary city under an Adams administration.” Now his city’s public-transit system wants to balance its books on the backs of bedroom communities like my own Cornwall-on-Hudson via what it … Read more
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 … Read more