Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Albany Reform

Who Better Represented “the Little Guy” in the Pricing Debate?

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 18, 2007 | 22 Comments

New York State Assembly Members Jose Rivera, Richard Brodsky and Adriano Espaillat Mayor Bloomberg and the Campaign for New York’s Future never really seemed to get that the congestion pricing debate was fundamentally going to be a fight about class, and the widening divide between rich and poor in New York City. While the Mayor […]

Bloomberg: NYC is Poorer Today Thanks to Albany Inaction

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 17, 2007 | 15 Comments

Mayor Bloomberg had harsh words for New York State’s Democratic leadership at today’s press conference in Brooklyn. Here is an abbreviated transcript of some of the question-and-answer period with the press: Is congestion pricing dead? I don’t know that it’s dead or alive. I think what is clear is that we have not submitted a […]

Brodsky Killed Congestion Pricing But We Hurt His Feelings

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 17, 2007 | 22 Comments

State Assembly Member Richard Brodsky is displeased by the suggestion that his opposition to New York City’s congestion pricing plan had anything to do with the fact that he has accepted more money from parking industry interests than any other State Assembly Member and that his district houses the wealthiest Manhattan car commuters in New […]

Statement from Mayor Bloomberg on Congestion Pricing Failure

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 17, 2007 | 22 Comments

Press conference at 11:30 am today. Here is the Mayor’s statement on the New York State legislature’s failure to act on New York City’s congestion pricing plan: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 17, 2007 STATEMENT FROM MAYOR MICHAEL R. BLOOMBERG ON CONGESTION PRICING AND PLANYC "Although we continue to talk to the Legislature and the Governor, […]

State Assembly Meeting in Manhattan to Talk Congestion Pricing

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 16, 2007 | 4 Comments

Brooklyn Assembly Member Jim Brennan (right) tells me that he sees sentiment against Mayor Bloomberg’s congestion pricing plan running at about "three- or four-to-one against" among his colleagues. Brennan suspects that the plan may not even pass the Republican-controlled Senate. While Brennan supports congestion pricing himself, he is concerned that advocates have "over-sold the benefits […]

Senator Decries Bronx Asthma Crisis Then Rejects Pricing

By Jason Varone | Jul 13, 2007 | 13 Comments

It turns out that pollution-related heart and lung problems aren’t just for poor kids in the Bronx anymore. From yesterday’s New York Times: A study that used the mass of data included in the Women’s Health Initiative found that women who lived in communities with relatively high levels of air pollution in the forms of […]

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