Marshall Rose, a real estate developer who was instrumental in reviving the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue and transforming the adjacent Bryant Park from a mecca for drug dealers into a verdant Midtown oasis, died on Saturday at his home in Manhattan. He was 88. The cause was complications of Parkinson’s disease, his … Read more
Janno Lieber, the head of New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority, had won. Congestion pricing, the tolling program designed to cut down traffic in Manhattan and raise billions of dollars for the region’s aging transit infrastructure, had survived an onslaught. Attempts by lawmakers to narrow its scope. A wave of lawsuits from truckers, residents and powerful … Read more
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Good morning. It’s Thursday. Today we’ll look at the Trump administration’s move to end congestion pricing in Manhattan. We’ll also get details on a hearing on the administration’s effort to drop the criminal charges against Mayor Eric Adams. President Trump said last week that he had a plan to force New York to “kill” the … Read more
Janno Lieber, the head of New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority, had won. Congestion pricing, the tolling program designed to cut down traffic in Manhattan and raise billions of dollars for the region’s aging transit infrastructure, had survived an onslaught. Attempts by lawmakers to narrow its scope. A wave of lawsuits from truckers, residents and powerful … Read more
On the campaign trail, President Trump vowed to end New York’s congestion pricing plan. His administration followed through on Wednesday by moving to revoke federal approval for the tolling program just weeks after its Jan. 5 debut. The program, the first of its kind in the nation, aims to reduce traffic and pollution on some … Read more
A federal judge on Wednesday afternoon questioned Mayor Eric Adams of New York, Mr. Adams’s lawyer and a top Justice Department official over the department’s decision to seek the dismissal of corruption charges against Mr. Adams. It was the latest episode in a legal saga that has led to resignations of prosecutors and city officials … Read more
President Trump and his new transportation secretary, Sean P. Duffy, made it sound as if their power to pull the plug on New York City’s six-week-old congestion pricing program was absolute. Mr. Duffy, who has been on the job for less than a month, wrote to New York’s governor on Wednesday that “I have concluded” … Read more
Danielle R. Sassoon, the interim U.S. attorney for Manhattan who resigned rather than drop the prosecution of Mayor Eric Adams, explained her refusal in a Feb. 12 letter to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi. Ms. Sassoon’s letter reads as if it also has another intended audience: Federal District Judge Dale E. Ho, who is holding … Read more
