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
A senior Justice Department official suggested Wednesday that President Trump’s administration is justified in prioritizing a public official’s political cooperation over prosecutors’ suspicions that the official might have broken the law. The official, Emil Bove III, raised the idea during a hearing on Wednesday at which a judge asked him to explain his rationale for … Read more
At the center of the uproar surrounding the Justice Department’s motion to dismiss criminal charges against Mayor Eric Adams is a single Latin phrase: quid pro quo. The expression — this for that, in English — means a favor, something granted in exchange for something in return. The judge presiding over Wednesday’s hearing may scrutinize … Read more
A hearing Wednesday in Federal District Court in Manhattan will determine whether the Justice Department will be allowed to drop the criminal charges pending against Mayor Eric Adams. The Justice Department request sent shock waves through the ranks of current and federal prosecutors. Here are the people who may participate in the extraordinary proceeding. Mayor … Read more
President Trump is famous for his love of everything gold and other trappings that connote royalty, whether it be large military parades or extravagant inaugural balls. But in a post on his social media platform Truth Social, Mr. Trump went a step further, likening himself to a king as he celebrated his administration’s move to … Read more
Donald Shoup, a professor of urban studies whose provocative and occasionally amusing 734-page treatise on the economics of parking sparked reforms in thousands of cities, helping reduce traffic, create green space and make cities more walkable, died on Feb. 6 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 86. The cause was a stroke, his … Read more