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OPINION: Gov. Cuomo Must Stop the Racially Disproportionate Overnight Subway Closure
The measure amounts to a racially disproportionate assault on the livelihood of Black and brown communities, a budding planner argues in a clarion call op-ed.
January 11, 2021
OPINION: To Save the Subway, Tax the Ultra-Wealthy
New York needs to make the billionaires who disproportionately benefit from government to pay their fair share, a lawmaker argues.
November 26, 2020
Gov. Clean: Five Reasonable Arguments For 24/7 Subway Service that Cuomo Simply Ignores
The reasons to bring back overnight subway service as starting to pile up — but Gov. Clean won't have it.
October 5, 2020
New Evasions Underscore 24/7 Subway Service Has Become a Political Hot Potato
Cuomo, Foye pass the buck on when the trains will begin running full time again. Paging Dr. Zucker!
August 25, 2020
OPINION: Class War, Local and Express
What a Twitter spat says about how Gov. Cuomo and his minions run the MTA.
August 19, 2020
Op-Ed: Protests Lay Bare Structural Racism in Mass-Transit Policing
Even after COVID-19, the governor and MTA doubled down on hiring more cops for the subway. Will a popular movement open a debate about the control of public space?
June 4, 2020
Op-Ed: Homeless Will Be ‘Sanitized’ From Subways — But To Where?
Scapegoated again for the system's problems, they will be cast out overnight as the trains shut down. But there are hotel rooms — if the mayor would move.
May 1, 2020
ANALYSIS: LGA AirTrain is Andrew Cuomo’s $2B Parking Lot
UPDATED: The real motivator behind the Backwards LaGuardia AirTrain, a toy train for the business class, is not transit. It's cars.
January 24, 2020
Congestion Pricing Opponents Reveal They Are Completely Out of Ideas — And Easily Flustered, Too!
Assembly Members David Weprin and Rodneyse Bichotte tried to rally opposition to Gov. Cuomo's toll plan, but ended up getting shouted down by scores of supporters of congestion pricing.
March 24, 2019
EXCLUSIVE: Cuomo’s L Train Plan Still Has Lots of Pain [Updated]
Exit-only stations, massive crowds and scrubbed buses are part of the now overnight and weekend fix.
January 23, 2019
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