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Congestion toll is a 'money grab,' not about traffic: top NYC pol

"There’s a mentality unfortunately in this city and state by a handful of folks -- they just don’t want people driving cars," Staten Island Beep Vito Fossella said Sunday. 💝

Ho♒chul mulls lower-cost NYC con🥂gestion toll — with city workers exempt — but will wait until after election: sources

ꦆ Gov. Kathy Hochul is considering proposing a lower congestion toll for Manhattan — and nixing it altogether for municipal workers such as cops and teachers, The Post has learned.

MTA board♕ member wants to strip Staten Island of new trains in congestion pricing retaliati♋on

N🍰orman Brown recommended stripping the Staten Island Railway of promised new train cars over the borough’s opposition to the congestion pricing program. 

MTA set to bow to Gov. Hochul's suspension of $15 congestion pricing toll — for now

The MTA board is expected to vote on a resolution Wednesday begrudgingly bowin♎g to — not challenging — Gov. Kathy Hochul's decision to "pause" im🗹plementation of the "congestion" toll. 

MTA halts construction projects in move to 'scare NYers,' pressure Hochul after axing congestion toll: sources

 The MTA hꦆas halted construction projects at rail stat🃏ions in Queens to pressure Gov. Hochul to restore congestion pricing — or find another revenue service to maintain its capital spending...

Planned, new NYC migrant shelter at Staten Island church sp꧅arks outrage ⛎

𒈔 The proposal will place 15 cots inside the Faith United Methodist Church on Heberton Ave, wಞhich would then be an overnight haven for single adult men seeking asylum in the...

How powerful forces 'from left to right' came together to stop NYC's controversial congestion pricing program

♛ An extraordinarily broad coalition of powerful people who often don't see eye to eye joined forces and prompted Gov. Kathy Hochul to blink and scuttle the controversial $15 congesti🙈on toll...

 $500M of taxpayer 🧸dough wasted? Hochul, MTA lack Plan B for NYC congestion pricing infrastructure

The Hochul administration is staring at the 𝔍grim prospect of 🍸having to flush more than a half-billion dollars in taxpayer money down the toilet over the botched congestion pricing scheme.

 Truckers sue NY over🐎 controversial $15 congestion toll to enter Manhattan

Truckers have joined the conga line of opponents who've filed lawsuits to block the controversial first-in-nation congestion toll to enter Manhattan's business district south 𝄹of 60th Street.

State official won't say how many illegal pot shops there are as NYC begins crackdown: 'Larger than we'd like it to be'

A state cannabis regulator refused to say how many illegal pot shops𝐆 there are in New York while Mayor Eric A♊dams announced a "Padlock to Protect" program to close down...

NYC teachers union's lawyers blast MTA's decision with setting June 30 start date for controversial $15 congestion toll

The lawyers for the teachers' union lawsuit seeking to block the first-in-the-nation co🍷ngestion pricing scheme sent a letter to a federal judge flunking the MTA's announcement that the new $ဣ15...

'City of No'?: Adams plan to boost economy under fire by NYC Council

 Both Democrats and❀ Republicans on the NYC Council are expressing serious concerns over Mayor Eric Adams’ “City of Yes for Economic Opportunity” proposal aimed at boosting businesꦚses and job growth.

SI politicians, union heads welcome local NAACP chapter to conge♚stion pricing opposition

 A bipart🍸isan contingent of elected officials and local leaders are railing against the city's planned congestion pricing toll hike.

Republican NYC pols want stiffer penไalties to curb 🍬historic wave of car thefts

Big Apple car thefts have soared recently, es🎃calating to 13,500 stolen vehicles last year – the highest since 2006.

Time for ins𒁃ane NYC congestion pricing plan to hit 🍒the road

The latest entrant to the lawsuit against New York's insane congestion pricing plan is the Municipal Labor Committee, a heavyweight union. Time for this plan to hit the road. ♚

Unions for nearly 400K NYC workers oppose 'crazy' $15 congestion toll, back lawsuit to block it

 The labor coalition representing all the city's nearly 400,000 government wo✅rkers is backing the federal lawsuit filed by the teachers' union to block the "crazy" $15 congestion toll to enter...

18 NY legislators join UFT suit to block $15 congestion toll ไ

Eighteen elected officials have joined the teachers' union's fedeওral lawsuit aimed at blocking the controversial new $15 congestion pricing toll to enter Midtown.

Hochul suggests deporting mob of migrants who pounded cops in caught-on-camera attack near Times Square 🍬

Hochul says deporting the thugs should ൲be on the table.

'Taking the lead': NYC teachers' union to pay legal tab for Staten Island's congestion-pricing fight

New York City’s powerful teachers’ union is bankrolling Staten Island’s legal fight to s𒆙top the MTA’s congestion pricing plan, The Post has learned.

'Final nail in the coffin': NYC drops controversial plan to house migrants at ex-Staten Island Catholic school

The Adams administration no longer has plans to house migrants at a former St. ♓John Villa Academy Catholic school on Staten Island, following plenty of pushback from local pols and... ꩵ