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Transit Equity? Adams Budget Adds No New Funds for Fair Fares Discount Program
Mayor Adams's preliminary budget does not increase funding for Fair Fares, the city's half-price MetroCard program for very low-income transit riders — a program that only last year, Mayor Adams called "transformative."
January 12, 2023
Eric Adams in 2022: Big Words, Lots of Swagger, Modest Accomplishments — An Analysis
To paraphrase one of Mayor Adams's popular predecessors, how's he doin'?
December 29, 2022
Citi Bike Raises Fees as Advocates Urge Mayor Adams to Keep His Promise of Public Funding
Citi Bike told its 215,000 members the bad news: Annual memberships will rise to $205 from the current $185. And electric bikes will cost 17 cents per minute instead of 15 cents per minute.
December 29, 2022
EXCLUSIVE: Fair Fares to Roll Out on OMNY Next Year But Enrollment Still Lags
The city's Fair Fares program providing half-priced MetroCards to low-income New Yorkers will transition to the MTA's OMNY payment system next year, Streetsblog has learned.
October 26, 2022
Queens Composting Overtakes Old Opt-in Program, But Still Has a Long Way to Go
Queens is getting its crap together.
October 24, 2022
Mayor Adams: Keep DOT in Charge of Open Restaurants
Mayor Adams is pushing the City Council to keep the Department of Transportation in charge of outdoor dining, rather than move it to the much smaller Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, a move that advocates fear would sabotage the popular al-fresco "streeteries."
October 20, 2022
‘A NIMBY City Hall’: Adams Appointees Thwart Key Bike and Bus Projects
As the city seeks to redesign its streets to better serve transit riders, pedestrians and cyclists, interference is emerging from an unlikely place: City Hall itself. And one division of City Hall in particular.
October 17, 2022
Update: ‘Get Stuff Done’ Mayor Far Behind on his Vow to Fix 1,000 Intersections
The mayor isn't even halfway towards reaching his promise to "make design improvements" at 1,000 intersections this year — and the promised redesigns have overwhelmingly been merely changing the timing of traffic lights.
September 21, 2022
Tuesday’s Headlines: No Comment Edition
A 9-year-old boy was killed on Friday as he walked on a sidewalk in Sheepshead Bay by a driver. It was all over the news (and on our site, too). On Monday, we asked City Hall if the mayor would like to comment. [Insert cricket sounds here.] Plus other news.
September 20, 2022
Mayor Razes Abandoned Outdoor Dining Structures; Advocates Want That Space for People, Not Cars
Lots of swagger, but not much of a plan.
August 18, 2022
