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Penn Station project manager Andy Byford told city bigwigs that the cash-strapped Mamdani administration is going to have to cough up some cash to make Penn Station worthy of President Trump’s gilded vision.
That’s the same president who, as you’ll read in today’s headlines, is still arguing that congestion pricing must be halted, despite a year of successfully raising money for transit, reducing crashes, decongesting the city and making everyone flat out happier.
President Trump sort of inadvertently made an argument for banning horse carriages from Central Park on Thursday when he critiicized the City Council’s 40-7-2 vote to end the Central Park horse carriage industry with an ill-conceived analogy to cars.
The city’s much-anticipated program to require speed-limiting devices inside the cars of repeatedly reckless drivers will launch next year, though questions remain.