Transit

Subway

OMNY Complaints Mount as MTA Still Working Out Bugs in New System

May 20, 2025, 7:56 p.m.May 21, 2025, 8:15 a.m.

Commuters say they are running into delays on being billed for transit trips. The MTA insists kinks will be ironed out by the end of the year.

Morning commuters ride on an open-gangway G train in Brooklyn.

Transit

MTA Eyeing Another Batch of ‘Open Gangway’ Subway Cars

May 15, 2025, 5:00 a.m.May 14, 2025, 7:09 p.m.

The futuristic trains have been popular with riders — and are already standard around the globe.

A commuter uses their MetroCard at Union Square.

MTA

MetroCard Holdouts Cling to Slivers of Plastic Despite Tap-and-Go OMNY-presence

April 30, 2025, 11:55 a.m.April 30, 2025, 11:55 a.m.

As card machines go the way of the token, officials say a third of riders are reluctant to give up the now old-school swiping method.

Subway

Notes From the Underground: A Look at Subway Cars New and Old

April 14, 2025, 5:00 a.m.April 14, 2025, 2:34 p.m.

The MTA wants to spend a big chunk of its next capital budget on train cars — which would be the most significant upgrade in decades. But how well do you know what’s already on the tracks?

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy spoke to the press after riding the subway with Mayor Eric Adams, April 4, 2025.

Transit

Mayor Adams and Secretary Duffy Dodge MTA Brass for Subway Photo-Op

April 4, 2025, 4:27 p.m.April 4, 2025, 8:19 p.m.

Mayor Eric Adams and federal transportation Secretary Sean Duffy rode the rails together on Friday but didn’t let local transit officials or press know. The DOT head threatened to have DOGE look at the MTA's books.

MTA Chief Security Officer Michael Kemper speaks at an agency board meeting in Lower Manhattan.

Subway

‘Not a Game’: MTA Brass Counter Trump Insults and Threats With Facts and Figures

March 26, 2025, 5:38 p.m.March 26, 2025, 5:59 p.m.

Using a “professional, fact-based approach,” transit officials highlighted that felonies in the subway system last year were down — while acknowledging that assaults have risen in the past six years.

Commuters packed onto an A train during the morning commute.

Transit

Crime Down and Tolls Working, MTA Fires Back After ‘Shithole’ Jab From Trump DOT Chief

March 24, 2025, 4:00 p.m.April 4, 2025, 3:26 p.m.

One transit authority board member called Sean Duffy’s comments “a real slap in the face” as the MTA tries to get back on track.

An MTA police officer watches people enter a turnstile at Penn Station.

Transit

Latest Trump Threats to MTA Are More About Politics Than Safety, Transit Advocates Say

March 19, 2025, 1:29 p.m.March 19, 2025, 8:56 p.m.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has said the feds will cut funding to New York City Transit if they don’t get information on how New York will reduce subway crime.

Gov. Kathy Hochul speaks at an MTA board meeting inside Grand Central Madison about her fight to project congestion pricing.

Traffic

Hochul: We Won’t Be ‘Steamrolled’ by Trump on Congestion Pricing

Feb. 26, 2025, 5:15 p.m.Feb. 27, 2025, 3:46 p.m.

The governor showed up at a Manhattan MTA board meeting to talk tough and promise that New York will fight a federal shutdown of the tolling plan with “orderly resistance.”

A M22 bus travels from Battery Park City to the Lower East Side.

Transit

Manhattan Buses Got a Bit Faster in First Month of Congestion Pricing

Feb. 21, 2025, 5:00 a.m.April 4, 2025, 3:29 p.m.

Just as President Donald Trump moved to shut down the tolling plan, data shows — and riders say — the bus experience going crosstown has become better.

Transit

OMNY Complaints Mount as MTA Still Working Out Bugs in New System

MTA Eyeing Another Batch of ‘Open Gangway’ Subway Cars

MetroCard Holdouts Cling to Slivers of Plastic Despite Tap-and-Go OMNY-presence

Notes From the Underground: A Look at Subway Cars New and Old

Mayor Adams and Secretary Duffy Dodge MTA Brass for Subway Photo-Op

‘Not a Game’: MTA Brass Counter Trump Insults and Threats With Facts and Figures

Crime Down and Tolls Working, MTA Fires Back After ‘Shithole’ Jab From Trump DOT Chief

Latest Trump Threats to MTA Are More About Politics Than Safety, Transit Advocates Say

Hochul: We Won’t Be ‘Steamrolled’ by Trump on Congestion Pricing

Manhattan Buses Got a Bit Faster in First Month of Congestion Pricing

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