@Dvvwiththefacts @dsantos9797 @AsadFromNYC MTA capital plan is $65 billion for the next 5 years. $62 billion is for a state of good repair and ADA accessibility.
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@Navglad
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@Navglad @dsantos9797 @AsadFromNYC To be clear I’m 100% for congestion pricing. I just don’t see the link to more people taking mass transit as a result of it as a good thing unless that’s being accompanied by increased funding to modernize the system.
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Congestion pricing works:
"Ridership grew from 1.21 billion in 2024 to nearly 1.3 billion riders in 2025, a 7.7% increase. Most of the 39 stations that saw a more than 20% increase were outside Manhattan." ny1.com/nyc/all-boroug…
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@Dvvwiththefacts @AsadFromNYC Yes a few lines at certain hours are congested. Lexington line without a doubt. Second Ave subway completion will definitely help.
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@Navglad @AsadFromNYC “No sweat” is kind. Several lines could be described as severely overcrowded when passengers are having to skip trains. I also watched a handicapped person mortified that there was no way but up the stairs to exit Union Sq-14th St. Many parts of the system are in disrepair.
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@dsantos9797 @Dvvwiththefacts @AsadFromNYC Nothing compared to the summer of hell in 2017. It's an old system. It's getting billions for a state of good repair and improvement on time performance. Nothing to do with its capacity. which is more than it carried last year.
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@Navglad @Dvvwiththefacts @AsadFromNYC You seem to have forgotten the disaster the subway was in 2019. Multiple switch failures everyday, subways breaking down consistently causing passengers to remain trapped on the train for hours. You should look up what happened on July 20th, 2019.
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@Dvvwiththefacts @AsadFromNYC Overwhelmed? Subways were doing 1.7 billion pre-pandemic. It could handle 2 billion. No sweat.
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@AsadFromNYC A 7.7% increase in an overwhelmed system facing a bunch of issues isn’t necessarily a win though. The city, state and MTA need to have an actual plan for improving the transit experience besides taking Trump to court which has already taken a year atp
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@queens_parents 100 years from now congestion pricing haters. ” this one lawsuit will make congestion pricing illegal and the MTA will have to return $15 quadrillion Dollars”
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Fascinating. There’s still a pending federal lawsuit in NJ that gets to the heart of the issue with Congestion Pricing money grab: did MTA ever had legal authority to toll in Manhattan?
To summarize:
1. MTA is claiming they’re entitled to toll on federally funded roads which are typically prohibited via a VPPP program — but, wait for it — that program is DEFUNCT and Congress hasn’t given it a dime since 2012. In other words, if it hasn’t been funded in 14 yrs, the argument is it’s NOT a program.
2. VPPP only applies to roads on the federal interstate system NOT federally funded roads “like 57th Street, Lexington Avenue and 3rd Avenue below 60th” — the MTA overreached.
Amazing. It ain’t over ‘till it’s over @GovKathyHochul and @MTA Janno Lieber.
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What does SEQR reform really mean?
If communities say yes to housing and infrastructure, we let them build.
Let's break it down:
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📢Big changes coming to Ninth Avenue!
9thAve in Midtown/Hell’s Kitchen will get wider sidewalks, a wider protected bike lane, and an extended bus lane to 50th St. This redesign will reduce sidewalk crowding, improve bus reliability and expand cycling infrastructure.
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@JAllen_NYC No new money I believe, just a bunch of old programs being pulled underneath one department.
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Israeli settlers have increasingly used violence against Palestinians in a bid to drive them from their homes in the occupied West Bank. But sexual assault appears to be a new weapon in these settlers’ arsenal of intimidation, pointing to a troubling new level of violence. cnn.it/4du8vj6
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@PeteSikora1 If that happens, it should be used for better loans to green energy projects that are being decimated by the trump tariffs.
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Does anyone think a NY windfall profits tax on oil and gas corporations and returning the money to new yorkers as a cash payment is viable politically and worth organizing around?
I'm not sure, just wondering.
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She's right, but the wealthy AND the working class need to pay more on taxes.
Acyn@Acyn
Foxx: One of our colleagues just talked about the fact that wealthy people pay small percentages of their income on taxes. But what he didn't say is they pay over 50% of all the taxes paid in this country, and that working class people don't pay nearly as much as they do.
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It sure is! It’s about TWICE the per capita size of almost all other USA cities’ police departments.
Ben Max@TweetBenMax
Tisch says NYPD budgeted uniform headcount is just over 35K & PD currently has a little under 35K - she says she'd of course be happy to have more cops but sticking with ~35K is a "strong" force
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@Noahpinion I mean he is a huge backer to SEQRA reform that will happen in NYS This year and cut back on environmental review for housing and most everything else. That is huge!
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Sadly, I predicted this. But there's still time to turn it around!!
Ann Korchak@amkorchak
“A little more than three months into his tenure, the mayor hasn’t presented a single substantive housing proposal that addresses the affordable housing crisis long-term,“Instead, it has been a collection of catchy slogans, headlines, landlord-bashing, and schemes that would unlawfully take property from struggling small generational, immigrant owners and hand it over to predatory investors and nonprofits with questionable track records.” nypost.com/2026/03/17/us-…
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@RefrmDemocracy @r0berto_best_4 Zohran ran against a hated sex pest, the mayor was a conservative corrupt bald ninja turtle and with trump as president. It took that environment for him to win 50% of the vote. Elections are reactions to the past not present trends. DSA, democrats, GOP, never learn that lesson.
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@Navglad @r0berto_best_4 Underappreciated story of this election night.
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Time for NYC-DSA to get serious. What happened in Illinois can happen here.
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@morematerial Who will enforce it. When landlords say the supreme Court says different?
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Also they should just ignore the court.
Peter Sterne@petersterne
The ultra-reactionary court that wants to bring back the Lochner Era could very well rule in the future that rent regulation is unconstitutional. But blue states can't just refuse to implement progressive policies for fear the Supreme Court will eventually overturn them.
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People running city-funded "nonprofit" homeless shelters shouldn't be making $1,000,000. Not only is it outrageous, it breeds corruption and subverts democracy. The mayor of NYC makes $258,750 a year. People working under him, including those who award city contracts, make less.
Charlie Smirkley@charliesmirkley
NYC “Nonprofit” shelter execs: what they make running a system that costs ~$82K/person/year: Jack Brown, CORE: ~$1M+ Raul Russi, Acacia: ~$1M Lymaris Albors, Acacia: ~$0.9M Joanne Oplustil, CAMBA: ~$0.8M Rosa Gil, Comunilife: ~$0.7M
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@JAllen_NYC I mean anyone who stops Cában from having influence in politics deserves a pat on the bat. She is insane.
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@nathanXisaacs @KennyBurgosNY @MorePerfectUS It will go up more with a rent freeze than it would without one.
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@KennyBurgosNY @MorePerfectUS Rents will raise even if there isn't a rent freeze. I'm tired of the rich holding the whole country hostage by saying "any threat to our bottom line and I will destroy the economy"
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BREAKING: New report shows that the median rent in Manhattan has now hit $5,000/month for the first time.
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