Jul. 10, 2024 By Selvena N. Brooks-Powers and Leroy Comrie Every day, millions of New Yorkers rely on our city’s vast network of subways and buses to get to work, school, medical appointments and to see their friends and loved ones. But the reality is that too many working-class New Yorkers, including a disproportionately high…
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Tag: fair-fares
Mayor and Council Speaker reach $112B budget deal that restores many unpopular cuts
Jun. 28, 2024 By Ethan Stark-Miller Mayor Eric Adams and City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams capped off another contentious round of city budget negotiations on Friday by shaking hands on a tentative $112.4 billion Fiscal Year 2025 spending plan that restores many of the mayor’s unpopular cuts. The not-yet-finalized budget deal comes just two…
First On amNY: Eligibility for city’s half-price MetroCard program boosted to 145% of federal poverty line in city budget: sources
Jun. 28, 2024 By Ethan Stark-Miller Mayor Eric Adams and City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams have agreed to expand eligibility for a program that provides low-income New Yorkers with half-priced MetroCards in the upcoming city budget, an increase that still falls short of the one desired by the speaker and transit advocates, sources familiar…
City Council seeks expansion of Fair Fares transit discount to 650,000 more New Yorkers: report
Jun. 4, 2024 By Ben Brachfeld
The City Council’s proposed expansion of the Fair Fares half-priced MetroCard would benefit some 650,000 additional low-income New Yorkers, a new report finds.
Fair Fares transit discount program finally compatible with OMNY for trial period
May. 1, 2024 By Ben Brachfeld
MTA riders using Fair Fares can finally start tapping into the discounted system using OMNY, with the transit agency and the city’s Social Services department launching a pilot program this week for select users of the low-income transit program.
Op-ed | Fair Fares makes public transit affordable for New Yorkers in need. Let’s expand it.
Jun. 7, 2023 By Selvena N. Brooks-Powers & Reverend Dr. Margaret Elaine M. Flake New York is expensive. Half of the City’s households cannot comfortably afford to live here. These New Yorkers are struggling to pay for the essentials, like housing, food, healthcare, and transportation. We believe in our shared responsibility to help our neighbors…
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