"Gridlock" Sam Schwartz
Streetsies 2025: Advocate(s) of the Year
Little changes on New York City's streets without fighting for it — but who did it best? Please vote for this year's honoree.
December 22, 2025
‘Gridlock Sam’: MTA Has a Cheap, Cop-Free Way to Make Platforms Safer
Installing metal barriers, with gaps for subway car doors, could be accomplished at hundreds of stations for the same cost as expensive platform screen doors.
August 27, 2024
Komanoff: William (Vickrey), It Was Really Nothing
Former City Council Member Kathryn Freed once said "traffic is killing us in Lower Manhattan." Now, she sues to stop Nobel-Prize-winning economist William Vickrey's congestion pricing idea.
May 20, 2024
MTA Ditches License Plate-Based Congestion Pricing Disability Exemption
Transit official won't grant congestion pricing disability exemptions any car with a disability license plate after all — opting for a case-by-case registration process instead.
February 26, 2024
‘Gridlock’ Sam: Give Truckers Credits So Congestion Toll Doesn’t Add to Bronx Pollution
September 14, 2022
The MTA May Finally Be Ready To Embrace Variable Price Tolling
December 10, 2020
Tuesday’s Headlines: No More Toll-Shopping Edition
November 10, 2020
