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Clinton sent a message of support today to a transgender woman who recorded herself being verbally assaulted on the New York City subway last Thursday.

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Angry subway riders rallied last night outside Cuomo's Midtown Manhattan office to demand a credible plan to fix the city's crumbling subway system.

After months of refusing to pay for emergency subway repairs, Mayor de Blasio on Saturday announced that the city would finally cough up its $ 418 - million share of the emergency repair plan created last year by MTA boss Joe Lhota.

In just the last week (and with the mayoral election nearing), Cuomo has big - footed de Blasio on self - driving cars, congestion pricing and the city's handling of the homeless on subways.

A report released last week revealed that ride - sharing apps like Lyft and Uber were largely responsible for the increase in traffic congestion in the city in the last few years, and Cuomo's plan will consider adding a surcharge on these services, funds from which will directly go toward subway improvements.

The subway system's decline has had an appreciable effect on the city's economy — a study by the Independent Budget Office last fall found that the constant delays cost residents about $ 864,000 per day in lost wages, and a study by Comptroller Scott Stringer's office noted that the figure could add up to $ 389 million per year if the transit system is not brought into a state of good repair.

Last month, Mayor Bill de Blasio scored what seemed to be a win in his ongoing feud with Governor Andrew Cuomo over the deteriorating subway system: The city was able to temporarily block more than $ 200 million in upgrades, as part of the MTA's Enhanced Station Initiative, that would bring improvements to subway stops — but not the system's aging signals or other issues the city deemed more pressing.

He had spent the last year or so making pre-candidate moves, including speeches from Queens to Chautauqua County, schmoozing with Republican leaders in Albany and producing an ad that attacked Cuomo, a Democrat who says he will seek a third term in office this year, over his stewardship of New York City's subways.

Once aboard, Hizzoner — who was joined by a pack of journalists — launched into a diatribe against Cuomo and MTA Chairman Joe Lhota, who last week blamed de Blasio for refusing to spend the city's $ 4 billion - plus budget surplus to fix the subways.

Reports of sexual offenses on the New York City subway are up more than 50 % compared with last year, according to figures released yesterday.

At the same time, commuters and travelers in and around New York City are contending with delays and derailments of subways, which Gov. Andrew Cuomo has felt political heat over in the last several weeks.

Cuomo backed a congestion pricing as a means of funding the ailing mass transit and subway system in New York City, criticism of which for him reached a boiling point with strap hangers amid a series of delays and disruptions last summer.

The $ 530 million includes $ 254 million that the city has to contribute to an $ 836 million short - term emergency plan unveiled by MTA chairman Joe Lhota to fix the city's beleaguered subway system — which has been plagued by delays and service problems over the last several months — and $ 140 million less than the city had expected to receive in state aid for city schools.

GREENWICH VILLAGE — City Council Speaker Christine Quinn joined community leaders at a local subway station early Thursday to help catch a suspect in last week's vicious sexual assault inside a massage parlor.

Last year saw the opening on Manhattan's far West Side of the city's first new subway station since 1989.

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.»

During nearly four hours of questioning at a state budget hearing on transportation spending, MTA Chairman Joseph Lhota assured Senate and Assembly members that an $ 836 million «subway action plan» launched last summer to fix the city's subway system is improving service, although he admitted there still is plenty of work still to do.

Governor Andrew Cuomo unveiled New York's fiscal year 2019 budget on Tuesday, at last offering insight into how the state will begin to fund dire upgrades to the ailing New York City subway system.

Cuomo is facing increasing political heat over the ongoing troubles with New York City's subways, which have seen an increase in delays as well as derailments over the last several months.

Andy Byford, who headed Toronto's transit system until last month, now has the job of turning around subway and bus service in America's most populous city as the new president of New York City Trancity as the new president of New York City TranCity Transit.

«Anyone who has been an MTA customer in the five boroughs over the last few years can tell you that our City's subway system is crumbling.

Just days after a Harlem subway train derailment last month where more than 30 people were injured, Governor Andrew Cuomo declared a state of emergency for the city's subways.

Just last week, de Blasio said the city received only 15 minutes warning from the state before Cuomo made the decision to shut down the subway due to an impending snow storm.

«The fact of the matter is the Mayor abrogated his responsibilities to the riders of the New York City subway system last summer by pointing fingers, this way, that way, playing politics,» said TWU President John Samuelson.

While some riders told PIX11 they have seen some improvements since Governor Cuomo declared a state of emergency for the city's subway system last year, other riders said they are just fed - up with the delays.

This time around, the meltdown of the city's subway system, which was not an issue the last time, seemed to provide a stronger argument for congestion pricing.

«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.

The plan, which would provide a link between Secaucus Junction, one of New Jersey's major transit hubs, and the New York City subway system, was floated by the Bloomberg administration last week in response to Christie's termination of a multi-billion dollar Hudson River rail project.

Over the last eight months, New York City's subway system has found itself caught in a feud between Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Astoria's elected officials blasted the city's decision to shut down its W train service last week, saying thousands of western Queens residents rely on the subway to commute to Manhattan.

In the last 10 days, Mr. Cuomo has also engaged in fresh public battles with Mr. de Blasio, his longtime Democratic rival, calling elements of his record «repugnant,» threatening to declare a state of emergency in the city's public housing and working closely with the City Council to secure money for the subways that the mayor has resisted spendcity's public housing and working closely with the City Council to secure money for the subways that the mayor has resisted spendCity Council to secure money for the subways that the mayor has resisted spending.

In the big cities like Shanghai where I lived for my last 10 years in China there are also more and more subway lines that get you across town much quicker and smoother and without the crazy traffic jams that often clog up the streets.

The New York City subway might be the last place you'd expect to check out a library book, but that could soon change if some students from Miami Ad School have their way.

New York City's Metropolitan Transportation Authority has been testing a new tap - to - pay system for the subway since last year, but a complete rollout will take years.