Sentences with phrase «city subway crisis»

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While the MTA is undertaking a $ 836 million emergency plan to reverse the New York City subway's precipitous slide, an equally consequential crisis has been brewing aboard the city's public buses, which provide more than 725 million rides a year and reach places that are not close to a subway lCity subway's precipitous slide, an equally consequential crisis has been brewing aboard the city's public buses, which provide more than 725 million rides a year and reach places that are not close to a subway lcity's public buses, which provide more than 725 million rides a year and reach places that are not close to a subway line.

As the subway system has descended into crisis, Mayor Bill de Blasio has been noticeably absent underground, opting instead for a caravan of black sport utility vehicles to travel around the city.

A program to install Art Deco - style towers in front of the city's bridges and tunnels has come under heavy scrutiny this week after it was revealed that the MTA had set aside $ 100 million for the project, in the midst of a subway crisis.

Strategists nod to her recent appointment of L. Joy Williams, the president of the Brooklyn NAACP and board chair of Higher Heights, as a senior adviser, and Nixon's campaign launch in Brownsville, Brooklyn, a majority black neighborhood that encapsulates many of the flashpoints in the Democratic primary: It's the poorest neighborhood in Brooklyn and among the poorest in New York City, it's at the center of the affordable housing crisis, and residents are prepping for the 15 - month L train shutdown in early 2019, a symptom of New York City's dilapidated subway system that Nixon's branded» #CuomosMTA.»

Though the plan is divisive, the governor contends that congestion pricing will help fund the city's ailing subway system, and help stabilize the ongoing crisis.

A series of subway and commuter train crises last spring prompted the Democratic governor to declare a state of emergency for the city's transit system after predicting riders faced a «summer of hell.»

The governor is also relying on some one - time revenues from bank settlements after the financial crisis, to pay for improving the New York City subways, funding hospitals and other health care providers, and paying for some day - to - day state operating expenses.

Pat Foye, who served as Gov. Andrew Cuomo's executive director, is leaving the agency to become the MTA's president, just as that agency is reeling from the city's subway crisis.

Fixing New York City's subway crisis will require taking the drastic step of creating a state - controlled corporation dedicated solely to rebuilding and modernizing the city's teetering subway system, according to a new report from an influential urban research and advocacy grCity's subway crisis will require taking the drastic step of creating a state - controlled corporation dedicated solely to rebuilding and modernizing the city's teetering subway system, according to a new report from an influential urban research and advocacy grcity's teetering subway system, according to a new report from an influential urban research and advocacy group.

ALBANY — Service disruptions on New York City's subways have escalated from a frequent annoyance to what advocates have deemed a crisis.

With the city's subways in crisis — with daily delays increasingly common and its equipment in dire condition — Cuomo, who once doubted that congestion pricing would gain any traction in the state, is planning to resurrect the idea and will expend political capital to see it succeed.

The governor also is relying on some one - time revenues from bank settlements after the financial crisis to pay for improving the New York City subways, funding hospitals and other health care providers, and paying for some day - to - day state operating expenses.

«The governor is born and raised in New York City and is totally committed to addressing the subway crisis and is personally engaged in turning around the MTA.

«Corruption, pay - to - play, mismanagement, deteriorating quality of life, of a homeless crisis, broken subways or if they want to take our city in a different direction,» Malliotakis said Tuesday morning, trying to make a last - minute push to voters.

Albanese, a former City Council member, went on the attack almost immediately and jabbed at de Blasio throughout, criticizing the mayor's inability to reign in homelessness, his ties to real estate interests, his «ineffective» affordable housing policy, his nonchalance towards the city's subway crisis and his «politicizing» of the polCity Council member, went on the attack almost immediately and jabbed at de Blasio throughout, criticizing the mayor's inability to reign in homelessness, his ties to real estate interests, his «ineffective» affordable housing policy, his nonchalance towards the city's subway crisis and his «politicizing» of the polcity's subway crisis and his «politicizing» of the police.

Malliotakis» campaign has argued that she can manage the city better than de Blasio has — she regularly criticizes the mayor for failing schools, the homelessness crisis, crumbling subways, and other quality of life issues.

Cuomo does have his share of shortcomings, including an ethics crisis inside his administration, a record of underfunding the subway system and shortchanging the city on child welfare funds.

This time congestion pricing is back at a moment of crisis — above ground, streets are becoming increasingly snarled in large part because of the boom in ride - hailing apps, while below ground the problem is even worse as the city's aging subway system is riddled with delays and in dire need of money.