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Staten Island's train-car crisis proves the MTA doesn't know what to do with taxpayer money
Five of Staten Island's new R211 train cars were yanked from service after just a month on the tracks because of a signal issue.
The blood of teen shooters and their kid victims are on the hands of Albany leaders
The juvenile justice system in New York is broken and failing thanks to Raise the Age — a 2018 law that sends most teen criminal defendants to Family Court and...
Head of NYC union workers urges Trump to overrule Hochul and kill congestion toll
Upset with Gov. Kathy Hochul, Harry Nespoli, the head of the umbrella group representing 300,000 New York City's municipal workers is urging Republican President-elect Donald to kill the reviled $9...
Kathy Hochul, Eric Adams are deaf to voters’ resounding message
Beyond their obvious role in separating winners from losers, elections also serve as teaching lessons to society in general.
Queens neighbors beg NYC to shut down suspected brothel operating across from science museum
Angry residents in Corona, Queens are demanding that authorities padlock a brothel brazenly operating on a block across from the New York Hall of Science museum, a major tourist destination...
Mayor Adams praises Hochul on congestion pricing, insists NYC safe from Trump blowback
Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday hailed Gov. Kathy Hochul for resurrecting the city’s hated congestion pricing plan — and insisted the Big Apple is safe from potential blowback by President-elect...
Career criminal's stabbing spree: Letters to the Editor — Nov. 20, 2024
Post readers discuss a homeless man with eight prior arrests who stabbed three people to death on Monday.
NJ Rep. Josh Gottheimer rips fellow Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul as he vows to fight $9 NYC congestion toll
New Jersey Rep. Josh Gottheimer ridiculed NY Gov. Kathy Hochul for moving ahead with a $9 congestion toll to enter MIdtown Manhattan, noting the toll will eventually rise to the...
Bronx Democratic rep rips NY as 'impossible' for business — stirring talk of a run for governor
Sounding like a politician with higher aspirations, Bronx Rep. Ritchie Torres delivered a withering assessment of New York's policies and rules as anti-growth while saying voters' disgust with city and...
Hochul’s congestion pricing revival approved by MTA – clearing the way for $9 tolls starting Jan. 5
Congestion pricing is back! The MTA on Monday approved a new plan to charge drivers $9 to enter Midtown Manhattan starting Jan. 5. Gov. Kathy Hochul’s congestion pricing revival got the transit agency’s green light...
NYC congestion toll would hit neighborhoods with some of worst vacancy rates in city — as GOP issues warning to Dems
If they can't stop it, Republicans vow to make their opposition to the revived first-in-the-nation $9 "congestion" toll to enter the Manhattan business district a major campaign issue against Democrats.
Hochul's congestion-toll failures: incompetence — or a long con
Gov. Kathy Hochul’s botch of the toll to drive into core Manhattan is so epic, you must wonder: Is she this bad at politics, or is she doing it on purpose?
Congestion pricing is back, and no one is happy about it: Letters to the Editor — Nov. 18, 2024
NY Post readers discuss Gov. Hochul reviving the controversial congestion pricing program with a reduced fee of $9.
New York is headed for massive shrinkage — thanks to its repellant progressive agenda
Cornell University researchers project a drop of possibly 2 million people — or more! — within just the next 25 years, whittling the count from 19.7 million to less than...
House Republicans pledge full court press against NYC congestion pricing -- as they wait to see if Trump fulfills vow to 'TERMINATE' tolls
New York House Republicans plan to attack congestion pricing from "every avenue," with the aim to kill the contentious toll program that president-elect Donald Trump has vowed to "TERMINATE" from...
NYU Langone ignored in plea to Hochul to exempt congestion pricing for vulnerable patients, staff
Leaders at NYU Langone Health urged Gov. Kathy Hochul to craft congestion pricing exemptions for burdened patients and staff -- a searing plea that went unheeded days later when she...
Hochul claimed she was a regular at NYC diners to talk congestion toll — but one owner has a different story
Gov. Kathy Hochul repeatedly insisted Thursday that she talks to regular folks at New York City diners who support the controversial $9 toll — but one of the restaurants’ owners...
NYC congestion pricing toll is 'insane,' says NJ gov candidate who promises to fight controversial tax
A New Jersey Democratic congressman announcing a bid Friday to become the Garden State's next governor blasted New York Gov. Kathy Hochul as "insane" for reviving the reviled "congestion" toll to...
NYC’s new $9 congestion pricing toll -- everything you need need to know
Gov. Kathy Hochul had abruptly paused the toll, which had been slated to go into effect at a base rate of $15 per day back in June.
Meet the doorman, waitress and taxi driver who will pay over $2K to get to work in congestion plan
Many working-class New Yorkers aren't buying Gov. Kathy Hochul's pitch for her revamped congestion pricing plan.