Transportation News

Drivers under the south side of the Shea Road under near the Grand Central Parkway ramp in Flushing.

Are You Traveling Over Troubled NYC Bridges?

May 20, 2025, 5:00 a.m.May 21, 2025, 10:33 a.m.

Some 118 sections of local spans of all types were found by inspectors to be in poor condition in 2024, records show. See how the bridges you use fared.

City Hall

How an Indicted Tow Trucker Gained Entree to the Top of the Adams istration

April 15, 2025, 5:00 a.m.April 14, 2025, 5:55 p.m.

Mike Mazzio helped raise nearly $400,000 for Adams’ 2021 campaign and hired the mayor’s former state Senate colleague Jeff Klein as his lobbyist — all while facing charges for illegally rigging the industry.

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.

Trucks were parked longterm along Rockaway Boulevard near JFK Airport.

Streets

Truck-Parking Pilot Excludes City’s Most Impacted Areas, Including Southeast Queens

March 27, 2025, 8:17 p.m.April 4, 2025, 3:32 p.m.

Residents there say they’ve seen more illegally parked tractor trailers in recent years that compromise street safety and hurt businesses.

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.

Transit

Trump Claws Back Approval for Congestion Pricing in Manhattan

Feb. 19, 2025, 12:43 p.m.Feb. 21, 2025, 4:35 p.m.

MTA and Hochul seek court intervention following Federal Highway istration's withdrawal of for the tolling program, while president declares: "LONG LIVE THE KING!"

Tech startup Gravity released renderings of their “DEAP Trees” electric vehicle charging stations.

Technology

Tech Startup Gets on Fast Track to Install Sidewalk EV Charging Towers After Hiring Eric Adams’ Power Broker

Jan. 27, 2025, 5:00 a.m.Jan. 24, 2025, 5:13 p.m.

Gravity Technologies is preparing to plant “trees” to juice up city agency vehicles, with help from the lobbying firm founded by the mayor’s former chief of staff, Frank Carone.

Seven adults and one child in a Spiderman backpack walk out onto Utica Ave to board the B46 Bus. A commuter van is seen on the left, parked in the bus lane.

Buses

Vans Vs. Buses: Swarm of Unlicensed Operators Battles MTA for Street Space and Commuters

Jan. 3, 2025, 5:00 a.m.Jan. 2, 2025, 5:29 p.m.

As legitimate dollar van operators get priced out by high insurance rates, off-the-books competitors are taking their place.

Transportation

Are You Traveling Over Troubled NYC Bridges?

How an Indicted Tow Trucker Gained Entree to the Top of the Adams istration

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

Truck-Parking Pilot Excludes City’s Most Impacted Areas, Including Southeast Queens

‘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

Trump Claws Back Approval for Congestion Pricing in Manhattan

Tech Startup Gets on Fast Track to Install Sidewalk EV Charging Towers After Hiring Eric Adams’ Power Broker

Vans Vs. Buses: Swarm of Unlicensed Operators Battles MTA for Street Space and Commuters

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