The plan to charge drivers to enter Manhattan south of 60th Street, which last month moved closer to federal approval, will deliver two notable gifts to New York and the region when it begins, perhaps as soon as next April. The first is that congestion pricing will cut traffic not just within the so-called charging […]
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A coal train, blaring its horn in the dark, was the first to rumble past the Bahanaga Bazar rail station, the site of one of the deadliest train disasters in India’s history, as rail lines reopened in both directions after midnight on Monday. The restoration of the important rail route, watched by senior train officials […]
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For years, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority has mostly relied on the same approach to deter people from sneaking into New York City’s subways without paying. As passengers trickle in, police officers stand next to turnstiles and write tickets to those who jump them. Yet even after a dramatic increase in enforcement, the transit system lost […]
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A 39-year-old man was charged on Tuesday with shoving a woman’s head against a moving subway train in an apparently random attack at a Manhattan station that left the woman critically injured, the police said. The man, Kamal Semrade, was arrested late Monday at a homeless shelter near La Guardia Airport in Queens, the police […]
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The Latest The Metropolitan Transportation Authority on Monday proposed raising the base fare for a single New York City subway, bus or paratransit ride 5 percent, to $2.90 from $2.75 — the first increase to the base fare since 2015. The proposal would raise the cost of a seven-day MetroCard 3 percent, to $34 from […]
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Last year, on a spring evening, a 28-year-old man confronted a woman on a San Diego bus who was filming him with her cellphone, according to court documents. Edward Hilbert, 56, another rider, decided to intervene. He grabbed the man, Anthony J. McGaff, 28, put him in a chokehold and held him for eight minutes, […]
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Why It Matters The deal creates a more permanent funding stream for the M.T.A., which is often at the center of feuds between the city and state over how to prop up its finances. During each budget cycle, the authority has had to jockey for money against an array of other interests. There is also […]
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Free bus service could come to 10 bus routes in New York City under a proposal by state lawmakers to lure more riders to the city’s struggling transit system and help those who cannot afford to pay the $2.75 fare. Two bus routes in each of the city’s five boroughs would be designated for a […]
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Even as New York returns to something close to prepandemic life, the city’s transit system remains mired in a crisis of decreased ridership and shaky finances. To some extent, the Covid-19 emergency simply exacerbated problems that had plagued the system for decades. How best to stabilize the subway for the future has been one of […]
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The law also restricts the square footage of the floor area of new residential buildings to 12 times the size of the lot the buildings are built on — even as Manhattan is covered in commercial buildings with floor-area ratios into the upper 20s. Some of the city’s most celebrated older residential buildings exceed the […]
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State Senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal, whose district includes the area around Penn Station, also viewed the presentation and called it “intriguing,” in part because of the involvement of HOK. The demolition of the Theater at MSG would free up substantial room for the train hub below, which is crowded with structural columns that disrupt the passage […]
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In the pecking order of mass transit projects, trains always seem to trump buses — even if the trains are designed to go in the wrong direction. “Some will say that buses aren’t sexy,” said Janette Sadik-Khan, a former New York City transportation commissioner. But Ms. Sadik-Khan recently joined other New York transportation authorities and […]
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What makes a city great? Whether you’re living in Durban, South Africa, or Medellín, Colombia, perhaps no two people living in one place will have the same answer. But ask residents across different cultures and regions about challenges facing their own cities, and common issues will emerge, like the need for more affordable housing, better […]
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I asked Joel Kotkin, presidential fellow in urban futures at Chapman University and executive director of the Urban Reform Institute in Houston, about the economics of major cities, and he replied by email: “The era of urban supremacy is over. The party that addresses this will win. These areas need infrastructure and tax structures that […]
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There will be no AirTrain to La Guardia Airport. Gov. Kathy Hochul has abandoned plans to build a light-rail link to La Guardia after a review found that the project’s cost had ballooned to $2.4 billion, more than five times initial estimates. When Ms. Hochul’s predecessor, Andrew M. Cuomo, first announced the pet project in […]
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President Biden’s budget plan, released on Thursday, routes about $1.2 billion to two of the biggest transit projects in New York City: the Second Avenue Subway extension and new train tunnels under the Hudson River. Because the funding was already allocated in the $1 trillion infrastructure bill that was signed into law in 2021, it […]
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MANILA — In the Philippines, they are known as “kings of the road,” colorful, open-air vehicles with loud horns and diesel engines that ferry millions of Filipinos on their daily commutes. Called “jeepneys” for their origins as U.S. military jeeps, they are cramped and stiflingly hot, ubiquitous on the busy city streets where many riders […]
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Shouts and expletives rang out at a station in Jamaica, Queens, on Thursday morning as commuters raced to catch connecting trains during the first week of a Long Island Rail Road schedule that has benefited some passengers but upended rush hour for those traveling to Brooklyn. The service changes offer some commuters who used to […]
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For years, an indication of Ka’Von Wooden’s dream to one day operate a subway train hung on his bedroom wall: a map of the No. 6 line. Ka’Von would picture himself in a conductor’s booth, hurtling through the subway tunnels, his mother, Y’Vonda Maxwell, said. Ka’Von, a shy 15-year-old from the Bronx with autism, was […]
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Across the New York City suburbs, a thicket of local zoning laws thwarts the building of all but the most expensive single-family homes. In some parts of Scarsdale, in Westchester County, new homes must be built on lots of at least two acres. In most parts of the village of Muttontown, on Long Island, new […]
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The mayor and governor said that rates of major crimes had dropped 16 percent from Oct. 25 to Jan. 22, compared with the same period a year earlier. Overall, since 2019, the rate of violent crimes — murder, rape, felony assault and robbery — has more than doubled in the New York City system, even […]
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