Danielle Furfaro
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Electric Citi Bikes will be easier to find but more expensive
Electric Citi Bikes will be slightly easier to find now — but members will have to pay more to ride them, company officials announced Thursday. Citi Bike plans to add...
LIRR, MTA want car drivers to be held responsible for crashes
The president of the Long Island Rail Road and at least one MTA board member want to find ways to make car drivers pay for crashes they cause like the...
MTA raising price of weekly and monthly MetroCards
The MTA voted Wednesday to raise the price of weekly and monthly MetroCards, while nixing bonuses on pay-per-ride cards — as one of its board members blasted the decision, saying...
Andrew Cuomo wants L train 'experts' to review MTA's future projects
They’re back! Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants to put the eggheads who cooked up his controversial overhaul of the L train’s Canarsie Tunnel in charge of reviewing all of the MTA’s...
Cuomo, de Blasio say pot sales will help fix the subway
The subways are going to pot — and that may be a good thing. Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio on Tuesday announced that revenue from legal marijuana...
Citi Bike covered in barnacles surfaces on Upper West Side
No, Citi Bikes are NOT river compatible. Rider Ted Geoghegan tweeted photos of a barnacle-covered bicycle that he found when he hustled over to the 73rd and Riverside dock to...
What the hell happened to this MTA escalator?
Straphangers at a Midtown subway station were seconds away from potential injury when the top steps of an escalator shredded during rush hour -- leaving one passenger "shaking." "Still shaking....
MTA has been leaving dangerous debris exposed for years: conductor
Tracks all across the subway system are littered with dangerous debris that could potentially injure riders and people on the street — and MTA brass has long ignored warnings that...
MTA to begin pilot for MetroCard replacement next week
The MTA’s new fare payment system will be called OMNY – short for One Metro New York – and agency employees will test out the new contactless cards starting next...
Wood from subway tracks crashes through car windshield
Wood from the elevated 7-train tracks crashed into the windshield of a car in Queens just after noon on Thursday afternoon, terrifying residents who were standing below. Several videos and...
Travel mug lodged under brake pedal might have caused deadly bus crash
A travel coffee mug lodged between the brake and accelerator pedals of a charter bus likely caused a horrific 2017 Queens crash that left three people dead, officials said Thursday....
Councilmen planning bailout for taxi drivers after medallion prices plummet
Two City Council members are working on a bailout plan for taxi-medallion owners who say their livelihoods have been destroyed by ride-share apps. Ydanis Rodriguez — who heads the council’s...
Congestion pricing plan wouldn't roll out for two more years: MTA
The full rollout of congestion pricing in Manhattan is about two years away, even though it’s already been studied for years, MTA officials told state lawmakers Tuesday. The testimony from...
Raccoons have invaded this Brooklyn subway station
Masked bandits are taking over a Brooklyn subway station. A plague of furry raccoons has struck an L train station in Canarsie — prompting a state senator to demand the...
City has left scorched car in busy Brooklyn crosswalk for days
The shell of a burned-out car has been sitting in a Brooklyn intersection for close to a week — and ticked-off residents say the city is ignoring the eyesore. Someone...
Cabbies upset Johnson axed for-hire vehicle committee
Taxi drivers and medallion owners are in a state of panic over Speaker Corey Johnson’s axing of the council’s for-hire vehicle committee, which had been Ruben Diaz Sr.’s pet assignment....
Uber sues NYC over new cap on rideshare cars
Uber is suing over the city's cap on ride-share cars, claiming that the move unlawfully stifles competition. The suit was filed Friday afternoon and claims that the city cap, which...
Anti-Amazon legislators heckled at Queens rally
Politicians and activists who'd opposed Amazon building a new headquarters in Queens staged a victory rally after the company announced it was scrapping the project Thursday -- but were confronted...
MTA scraps plan to turn 14th Street into busway during L train repairs
The MTA will not transform 14th Street in Manhattan into a car-free busway during L train construction, agency officials said Wednesday — angering transit advocates who had been hoping to...
L train with swastikas removed during morning rush into Manhattan
The MTA took two L trains — including one during the morning rush hour — out of service on Wednesday when someone at the agency finally noticed anti-swastika stickers that...