Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Adriano Espaillat

In Race to Succeed Schneiderman, Support for Transit, Skepticism on Tolls

By Brad Aaron | Jun 8, 2010 | No Comments

Senate District 31 contenders Miosotis Muñoz, Mark Levine, Anna Lewis, and Adriano Espaillat One would be hard pressed to find a more broadly drawn constituency in the city than that of state Senate District 31, which spans from the Upper West Side to Harlem, Washington Heights and Inwood before hopping the Harlem River into Riverdale. […]

Lawmakers Stricken With Collective Amnesia as Transit Cuts Loom

By Brad Aaron | Jan 13, 2010 | 2 Comments

When Albany slapped a Band-Aid over the MTA budget hole last spring, no one except the architects of the plan pretended that the transit system was actually on sound financial footing. As yet another day of reckoning approaches, lawmakers continue to go to bizarre extremes to avoid admitting that their slipshod funding package has failed. […]

Adriano Espaillat Reaffirms Love of Traffic, Distaste for Tolls

By Brad Aaron | Jun 30, 2009 | 2 Comments

We wondered a few months back why Upper Manhattan Assembly Member Adriano Espaillat, a supporter of congestion pricing, would side with the usual suspects in opposing Ravitch-backed East and Harlem River bridge tolls. At the time, Espaillat told Streetsblog readers that new tolls would place an unfair burden on his district, and blamed MTA financial […]

Adriano Espaillat: Upper Manhattan Prefers Doomsday to Bridge Tolls

By Brad Aaron | Apr 2, 2009 | 21 Comments

Doomsday damage to Inwood (10034) as seen on RPA’s live map of planned MTA service cuts It was a little surprising to see Upper Manhattan Assembly Member Adriano Espaillat, one of the few state electeds to support congestion pricing without reservation, come out so strongly against the Ravitch MTA rescue plan, and the tolling of […]

Upper Manhattan Pols Share a Common (Windshield) Perspective

By Brad Aaron | Mar 19, 2009 | 4 Comments

Adriano Espaillat doesn’t believe in bridge tolls or parking laws. Some residents of Inwood aren’t happy with Assembly Member Adriano Espaillat’s vocal opposition to bridge tolls on East and Harlem River bridges. On the neighborhood blog Inwoodite (maintained by yours truly), Espaillat constituents sounded off last week, with one pointing out the assemblyman’s illegal parking […]

Espaillat to Westchester: My District Is Your Doormat

By Brad Aaron | Mar 4, 2009 | 8 Comments

Espaillat and Sander in March 2008. Photo: Brad Aaron. Last March, Assembly Member Adriano Espaillat stood with Mayor Bloomberg in Fordham Plaza, celebrating the announcement of the city’s inaugural Select Bus Service line. In the thick of the battle over congestion pricing, its fate to be determined within days, Espaillat was one of few state […]

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