In the 2018 election and many before it, New Yorkers faced a voting hurdle unlike voters in most other major cities: a relatively low number of polling places, scattered unevenly through the city.
The Department of Transportation is considering a proposal to let some Access-a-Ride (AAR) vehicles utilize the city’s bus lanes — an effort to speed up trips for users, who complain the service is painstakingly slow.
A hearing revealed that Councilmembers struggle with how to oversee a convoluted system where the state has taken on a dominant role.
The speaker weighed in on whether Mayor de Blasio’s presidential flirtation is a distraction, what he’s learned so far as Council leader, what he wants to see out of charter revision and what vision he’ll project if he runs in 2021.
Those issues, which relate to stories City Limits reported over recent months, are just a few of the dozens of topics covered in the Council’s detailed budget counter-proposal.
Bail reform, congestion pricing, education aid … the 2020 state budget had a lot. Including, according to a quiz City Limits’ editor took on air, hundreds of uses of the word ‘miscellaneous.’
Meetings of a school siting task force and Neighborhood Advisory Councils for each of the four proposed borough jails have been closed to the public.
The weather is warming. The budget is done. And rent regulations that affect millions of tenants and thousands of landlords are up for renewal.
In an effort to improve the AAR program, the MTA began offering e-hail services to users in 2016, allowing them to reserve trips in taxis or for-hire vehicles instead of the traditional blue and white AAR cars.
The more than 600 fiscal intermediaries statewide allows elderly and disabled people to hire and manage personal assistants. Critics say the governor’s executive budget would cut that number by at least 90 percent by changing eligibility requirements.