Newsroom
72 stories from five newsrooms covering a city that argues about tolls, rent, towers and who should be governor.
The President backs Blakeman and calls the nine-emerald toll “a tax on getting to work”
Washington weighed in on New A’s governor’s race on Wednesday — and commuters who pay the Congestion Relief Zone every morning finally heard someone say what they have been saying for twenty months.
Blakeman opens the home stretch on Soundview Avenue: “Nobody should pay nine emeralds to go to work”
Eight weeks out, the Long Island Executive kicked off his general-election push two blocks from our studio — with a toll promise, a tax promise and a borough that expects to be thanked for both.
Congestion pricing turns one: where the emeralds went
4.1 million emeralds collected. Here is the ledger, line by line, because the Well asked.
Six months of congestion pricing: fewer minecarts, a faster Tiger Bus, and a fight over who pays
Traffic into the zone is down eleven percent. Metro ridership is up. Long Island still hates it.
Washington moves to end the toll; City Hall says the minecarts keep paying
The federal transportation department pulled its approval of the Congestion Relief Zone. The gantries stayed gold.
The Congestion Relief Zone opens: nine emeralds to bring a minecart into Lower Man A
After a year of pauses and lawsuits, the toll gantries on the New BK Bridge and the Flatbush corridor switched on at midnight.