NYC Transit: Subway, Bus & MTA News | amNY

Commuters at the Staten Island Ferry amid congestion pricing

Congestion pricing: Staten Islanders bemoan Manhattan tolls as they ditch cars for the ferry

Posted on January 8, 2025

yellow taxi cab during congestion pricing in NYC

Congestion pricing: Cabbies and commuters continue to fume over Manhattan toll era

Posted on January 8, 2025

Department of Transportation Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez.

Clean your plates: NYC law proposed to crack down on congestion pricing toll evaders

Posted on January 7, 2025

Cars pass under the toll gantries at the Manhattan Bridge amid congestion pricing in New York on Jan. 7, 2025.

Congestion pricing: Where you will pay (and not pay) to drive in Manhattan

Posted on January 7, 2025

Rally for congestion pricing in Manhattan

Congestion pricing: What MTA projects will your $9 daily drive into Manhattan help pay for?

Posted on January 6, 2025

Uber and Lyft drivers in Lower Manhattan.

Lyft will credit riders $1.50 into and out of Midtown and Lower Manhattan during January

Posted on January 6, 2025

NYC firefighters unions rail against congestion pricing

Congestion pricing: FDNY unions, MTA trade verbal jabs over lack of exemptions for first responders

Posted on January 6, 2025

MTA platform railings at Washington Heights subway station

Spate of violence in NYC subways prompts call for more platform barriers

Posted on January 6, 2025

Cars operating at congestion pricing gantry

Congestion pricing launches ‘smoothly’ as MTA sets sights on ‘getting projects done’ with new cash flow

Posted on January 5, 2025

Congestion pricing traffic on Manhattan street

Congestion pricing: EMS workers say they’re set to leave Manhattan posts as toll program starts

Posted on January 5, 2025

two people unveiling a congestion pricing sign at night

IT’S ON: NYC opens first-in-the-nation congestion pricing toll program in Manhattan

Posted on January 5, 2025

Traffic leaving the Manhattan Bridge.

Congestion pricing is now active in NYC — here are 10 things New Yorkers should know

Posted on January 5, 2025

A congestion pricing toll gantry in Manhattan

Congestion pricing set to begin at midnight Sunday as federal judge clears path for Manhattan toll

Posted on January 4, 2025

A train crossing into Rockaway

Ask the MTA | A train outage in Rockaways, and explaining a Brooklyn station name

Posted on January 3, 2025

An express bus operating on a rainy street on Staten Island

Staten Island commuters fume over poor express bus service leading into 2025

Posted on January 2, 2025

A 6 train at Pelham Bay Park station in the Bronx.

Bronx

MTA worker stabbed in the Bronx while on duty at subway station

Posted on January 2, 2025

The One Train at the station

New Year’s Eve horror: Man fighting for life after being shoved onto Manhattan subway track, suspect in custody

Posted on December 31, 2024

Traffic on the Queens side of the Queens-Midtown Tunnel.

These are new traffic laws in New York slated for 2025

Posted on December 31, 2024

MTA bus and congestion pricing gantry

Congestion pricing still on for Sunday start after federal judge rules against New Jersey lawsuit

Posted on December 31, 2024

A Q train arrives at DeKalb Avenue in Brooklyn

NYC Transit boss and his female subordinate investigated for inappropriate work behavior

Posted on December 30, 2024

NYC transit train

The road ahead: What to expect with NYC transit in 2025

Posted on December 30, 2024

Guardian Angels Founder Curtis Sliwa with a homeless man on board a subway train at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue station on Dec. 29, 2024.

Brooklyn

Guardian Angels resume subway patrols following subway arson attack as founder Curtis Sliwa questions transit safety

Posted on December 29, 2024

An LIRR train at Far Rockaway in August 2023.

New discounts for the LIRR and Metro-North available this winter

Posted on December 29, 2024

Thomas DiNapoli New York State Comptroller

MTA needs to take additional money-saving measures, DiNapoli audit finds in wake of capital plan veto

Posted on December 26, 2024

7 trains arrive at 40th Street station.

NY legislative leaders suddenly reject MTA’s $68 billion capital plan

Posted on December 26, 2024

The 2025 numerals arrived in Times Square on Dec. 18.

New Year’s Eve in Times Square: A New Yorker’s guide to street closures, train schedules and more

Posted on December 26, 2024

Alleged Brooklyn subway arsonist in court

Brooklyn

Alleged Brooklyn subway arsonist who burned woman alive tried to fan deadly flames throughout train: DA

Posted on December 24, 2024

A family trudges through the snowstorm in Williamsburg, Brooklyn on Feb. 7, 2021.

White Christmas: NYC sees light snowfall on Christmas Eve as Sanitation Department works to keep streets clear

Posted on December 24, 2024

Sebastian Zapeta, 33 was charged with first and second degree murder, as well as arson in the death of a sleeping subway rider on Monday, December 23.

NYC subway riders skeptical of safety after fiery Brooklyn murder, other transit crimes

Posted on December 23, 2024

A taxi passes under an unused congestion pricing gantry.

Congestion pricing survives one legal challenge as federal judge refuses to stop Manhattan toll program in pending case

Posted on December 23, 2024

An Amtrak train at Penn Station

Amtrak experiencing heavy delays in and out of NYC after weekend disruptions

Posted on December 23, 2024

photos of a man and woman exiting a bus after they allegedly shot two people in a Brooklyn subway station

Brooklyn

NYPD releases photos of suspects involved in Brooklyn subway shooting

Posted on December 23, 2024

Subway riders on board a 7 train in Manhattan on Oct. 22, 2024.

2024 YEAR IN REVIEW: A look back at the top NYC transit stories

Posted on December 23, 2024

Drivers sit in traffic at the Jersey City entrance to the Holland Tunnel on May 9, 2023.

NYC to New Jersey bridge and tunnel tolls to increase on Jan. 5

Posted on December 22, 2024

Jericho Turnpike and 91st Avenue in Bellerose, Queens.

78-year-old man dead days after collision with pickup truck driver in Queens

Posted on December 22, 2024

a bus on Queens Boulevard that will soon offer more bus service if a plan is approved

Op-Ed | Revitalizing Queens and the future of bus transit

Posted on December 22, 2024

Bus traveling on Staten Island

MTA to shutter Staten Island bus depot on Jan. 3

Posted on December 20, 2024

faulty subway emergency exit lighting

NYC subway emergency exits are filled with hazards that demand repair, inspector’s report finds

Posted on December 19, 2024

Governor Kathy Hochul took the M train to Queens on Dec. 19, 2024 and spoke with riders (and amNewYork Metro) about subway safety and other issues.

EXCLUSIVE | Governor Hochul talks subway security while riding the M train with amNewYork Metro

Posted on December 19, 2024

people at a podium during press conference about National Guard troops in NYC subways

Hochul to add 250 National Guard troops to NYC subways

Posted on December 18, 2024

The turnstiles at the 28th Street station on the 6 line.

MTA approves transit fare hike as part of 2025 budget, leaving straphangers fuming

Posted on December 18, 2024

Marcus Monroe being emo on a subway platform.

Marcus Monroe is making NYC straphangers laugh on their gloomy subway commutes

Posted on December 18, 2024

MTA bus parked outside Brooklyn

These 24 MTA local and express buses slated for increased service next year

Posted on December 17, 2024

a bus on Queens Boulevard that will soon offer more bus service if a plan is approved

Queens bus network redesign plan providing more service, better rail connections, MTA says

Posted on December 17, 2024

New Yorkers protest outside MTA headquarters in Lower Manhattan advocating for better subway accessibility.

Congestion pricing start will pave way for more accessible subway stations in NYC in 2025: MTA

Posted on December 16, 2024

The R211 train has arrived on the Staten Island Railway.

Hundreds of open gangway subway cars to start rolling into NYC by 2027

Posted on December 16, 2024

New subway cars in fleet

New subway cars to roll into NYC in 2025, replacing 40-year-old fleet

Posted on December 15, 2024

Customers at an MTA customer service center where reduced-fare OMNY is available

MTA’s reduced-fare OMNY program now available to seniors in NYC

Posted on December 15, 2024

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carroll gardens library

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Councilmember Erik Bottcher and more than a dozen other elected officials from Manhattan signed a letter blasting "ongoing dysfunction" at Community Education Council District 2.

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