Sentences with phrase «transportation authority chairman»

The storm surge breached New York City's hundred - year - old sea walls and flooded the underground network of subway tunnels — the most destructive event in the subway system's 108 - year history, according to Metropolitan Transportation Authority chairman Joseph Lhota.

While taking occasional jabs at each other, former Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman Joe Lhota, businessman John Catsimatidis and Doe Fund founder George McDonald agreed on many of the issues during their debate.

Just a week before Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman Joe Lhota is due to present the MTA's 30 - day subway overhaul plan, Mayor Bill de Blasio has outlined his expectations for the MTA and Governor Andrew Cuomo — asserting that it is «time for the MTA to level with its New York City riders.»

Other local officials backing Runner are: Lancaster Vice Mayor Marvin Crist, Santa Clarita Councilman Dante Acosta, Castaic Councilman John Kunak and Antelope Valley Transportation Authority Chairman Norm Hickling.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- Republican mayoral candidate and former Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman Joe Lhota reportedly said this week that he did not think it was «appropriate» to shut down two subway lines for a pair of lost kittens.

The Republican field now includes businessman John Catsimatidis, former Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman Joseph Lhota and George McDonald, who heads a nonprofit for the homeless.

Mayor Bill de Blasio said the city wouldn't contribute additional funds toward the $ 836 million plan unveiled by Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman Joe Lhota this week until the state returned the nearly half a billion in funds it has drawn from MTA coffers since 2011.

But Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman Joe Lhota said a contribution from the city to fix the transit system can not wait.

Anthony Simon, general chairman of the United Transportation Union, left, and Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman Thomas Prendergast, right, shake hands in front of Gov. Andrew Cuomo after a tentative labor agreement was reached at Cuomo's office in New York on Thursday.

Metropolitan Transportation Authority chairman Thomas Prendergast and United Transportation Union president Anthony Simon signed the agreement at a press conference with Governor Cuomo on Thursday at 1:30 p.m.

On Tuesday, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority chairman, Joseph J. Lhota, an appointee of Mr. Cuomo's, outlined a plan to upgrade a system plagued by increasing delays and rider anger.

That could lead to a mano - a-mano contest between former Metropolitan Transportation Authority chairman Joe Lhota, who is backed by Giuliani, and supermarket billionaire Catsimatidis, who was endorsed by Pataki.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- CBS 2 has learned Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman Joe Lhota will resign his post and run for mayor of New York City in 2013.

Other Republicans who have thrown their names into the ring or are likely to include former Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman Joseph Lhota, Tom Allon, a publisher, and George McDonald, the head of a nonprofit that helps the homeless.

Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman Joseph Lhota has also been named as a possible Republican candidate for mayor, and has won the support of former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani should he decide to run.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- Former Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman and current New York City mayoral candidate Joseph Lhota expressed confidence in his campaign, but sounded a warning for the city, as he spoke out on WCBS Newsradio 880 Wednesday morning.

Former Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman Joseph Lhota will announce his candidacy for mayor later this month, according to former Staten Island Congressman and former borough president Guy Molinari.

There is heavy - hitting support for Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman Joe Lhota, a man who got high marks for his handling of Hurricane Sandy.

Republican contenders include former Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman Joseph Lhota; Tom Allon, a publisher; billionaire businessman John Catsimatidis; and George McDonald, the head of a nonprofit that helps the homeless.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman Jay Walder had applied for the $ 294.7 million grant in April, and Maloney later wrote a letter to U.S. DOT Secretary Ray LaHood in support of it.

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Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, center, and Metropolitan Transportation Authority chairman Joe Lhota, right, on tracks, watch as a worker cuts a gap in a section of track to create a continuous welded rail at the Avenue M Subway Station in Brooklyn, on May 7.

Not exact matches

He was hugged and kissed by dozens of well - wishers at party, hosted by Peter Kalikow, a real estate developer and former chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

Prendergast's Metropolitan Transportation Authority career has included stints as president of the LIRR and NYC Transit, and MTA chairman and CEO since June 2013.

Thomas Prendergast, left, chairman and chief executive of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, appears with Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D - N.Y.) at the 96th Street stop on the new Second Avenue Subway line on Thursday, Dec. 22, 2016.

«By doing that, it's actually less expensive than what Mayor Bloomberg wants to do,» said Lhota, who stepped down as chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to run for mayor.

All the men also pointed to the things they did get done, including a five - year renewal of Kendra's law, the appointment of a new chairman for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and Court of Appeals judge, legislation requiring state contracts to use American - made steel and allow medical marijuana to be prescribed for post-traumatic stress disorder.

Not apparently related to the Rockland County Prendergast family Governor Andrew M. Cuomo has nominated Thomas F. Prendergast to serve as chairman and CEO of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA).

A former state assemblyman, Port Authority commissioner, and chairman of the North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork / AP)-- A former New York City deputy mayor has been nominated to serve as chairman and CEO of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Thursday.

About three years earlier, Mr. Cuomo had made Mr. Zemsky chairman of the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- Wednesday marked Joe Lhota's last board meeting as the chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

The administration detailed the plows and other supplies it has deployed in preparation for Wednesday's storm, and Joe Lhota, chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, said Metro - North trains would operate on a reduce schedule.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday touted the state's spending on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the recent appointment of Joe Lhota as chairman, and then quickly pivoted to blasting Amtrak for not upgrading infrastructure at Penn Station in New York City.

As the late great Harold Fisher, treasurer of the Brooklyn Democratic Party, and less importantly, chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, once said at one of THEIR dinners: «Look at this!

In a move that surprised city officials, the chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority said on Monday that the de Blasio administration should significantly increase its contributions to the agency's $ 32 billion capital plan.

Ravitch, a Yale - educated lawyer, has a long history of running into flames and rescuing institutions: the Urban Development Corporation in the seventies, Bowery Savings Bank in the eighties, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, both as chairman during Mario Cuomo's administration (they butted heads) and as the architect of the bailout plan approved by lawmakers in the spring.

Joseph J. Lhota, who won the Republican nomination to run for the Mayor of New York is former Chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

Joseph J. Lhota, the chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, faced lawmakers in Albany on Thursday during a budget hearing.

WHITE PLAINS, NY — As Chairman and CEO of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), Thomas Prendergast is steering a $ 29.5 billion, five - year capital program, the largest and most comprehensive in the organization's history.

Following Superstorm Sandy, Lhota — then chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority — made headlines for saying Bloomberg acted «like an idiot» for predicting the Queens - Midtown tunnel would open before it was ready.

Lhota was once the right - hand man to Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and was former chairman of the New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

ALBANY — From Hudson Valley trains to Nassau County bus shelters and Coney Island subways, Joseph J. Lhota, the chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, seemed to have an answer Thursday for every question at a hearing over the authority's part of the proposed statAuthority, seemed to have an answer Thursday for every question at a hearing over the authority's part of the proposed statauthority's part of the proposed state budget.

And let's not forget MTA Chairman Joe Lhota, a registered Republican whose stock has risen considerably since his able leadership of the aged transportation authority in the wake of Sandy.

Since Gov. Andrew Cuomo appointed Mr. Lhota the chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority about a month ago, Mr. Lhota has sparred with Mr. de Blasio and backed up Mr. Cuomo as the governor feuds with the mayor.

The State Senate has confirmed the appointment of businessman Howard Zemsky to be the new chairman of the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo has nominated an experienced New York City transit executive to be the next chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

If Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the state Legislature don't approve the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's 2015 - 19 capital plan by June 30, the agency will «run out of money» and be unable to begin new projects, MTA chairman Tom Prendergast said Wednesday.

The funding will be dedicated to an MTA «lockbox» and offer long - term funding to support the subway action plan unveiled by Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Chairman Joe Lhota, transit improvements in the outer boroughs and a general transportation accountTransportation Authority (MTA) Chairman Joe Lhota, transit improvements in the outer boroughs and a general transportation accounttransportation account for the city.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority did raise fares and tolls while Mr. Lhota was its chairman, although those increases had previously been planned.