What you should know Subway users who frequent the Queensboro Plaza station will be affected for two weeks due to construction projects, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) recalled on Wednesday. Trains bound for Manhattan (7 , N and W) will avoid this station for two weeks, from Monday, July 31 to Monday, August 14, from … Read more
What you should know The MTA’s Music Under New York is a program that has allowed local artists to entertain passengers on train platforms since 1985. In an effort to recognize these artists, the city has created the MTA New York Riders’ Choice Award. The winner would receive a session in a recording studio with … Read more
What you should know Staten Island Borough President Vito Fossella plans to file a lawsuit to stop the MTA’s congestion pricing plan. In this way, he would join the governor of New Jersey, Phil Murphy, who already filed a lawsuit on Friday against the US Department of Transportation (USDOT) and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) … Read more
What you should know New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy filed a lawsuit on Friday against the US Department of Transportation (USDOT) and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to block the congestion pricing plan of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) and New York City agencies. a toll from next spring for traveling south of 60th Street … Read more
What you should know The MTA will begin a pilot program that will offer free service on some bus routes. There are five routes, one in each county, that will offer free service to 43,900 daily passengers starting at the end of September of this year for a term of six to 12 months, Gov. … Read more
What to Know New York Governor Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams were at the Fulton Street Station in Lower Manhattan, along with dozens of police officers, to announce that crime on the city’s subway has dropped. The MTA says its ridership survey shows an increase in riders reporting feeling safe or very safe jumped, … Read more
What to Know They are asking Mayor Eric Adams to pressure Albany to fix the MTA, while improving subway and bus service without raising fares, a tall order for an agency that is seemingly constantly out of money. Advocates are backing a new bill in Albany that would completely revolutionize bus service in the city, … Read more
NEW YORK — The NYPD is searching for the culprit who unprovokedly beat an MTA employee at a Manhattan station. The attack happened around 8:15 p.m. Sunday at the Hudson Yards station, according to police. The victim is 70 years old and was on duty at the station when the man came up from behind … Read more