Kathy Hochul announced Thursday that subway fare evasion dropped significantly in the past six months amid a surge in enforcement and other measures to curb the issue. From June 2024 through December 2024,

President Donald Trump has spoken with Gov. Kathy Hochul about stopping congestion pricing, but no decision has been made yet, a source told 1010 WINS Thursday amid a report the Trump administration is considering ending the tolling program.

During an MTA board meeting on Wednesday, Chair and CEO Janno Lieber announced that subway fare evasion has decreased from 14 to 10 percent.

A man who was pushed onto New York City subway tracks in the path of an oncoming train is recounting the harrowing, near-death experience.

In her state of the state address, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul promised the NYPD would patrol every single subway train overnight, but this means that hundreds of police officers have been reassigned and taken away from their local precincts.

Governor Kathy Hochul announced on Tuesday during her State of the State address a new plan to increase subway safety in New York City, including new infrastructure improvements and increased police presence on trains.

The Vital City report also spotlighted crime at subway stations such as Grand Central; 59th Street-Columbus Circle on the A, B, C, D and 1 trains; and the 74th Street-Broadway/Jackson Heights station on the 7, E, F, M and R lines in Queens.

Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York, an unabashed fan of the Buffalo Bills, was perhaps never more popular than on Sunday in downtown Albany.

The deployment will include 300 officers deployed on every overnight train and an additional 750 on stations and platforms, the governor said.

The MTA estimates 44% of bus riders and 10% of subway riders skipped the fare during the final three months of 2024.

The state has helped to fund the NYPD’s overtime in the past and although Hochul said this was funding that would be worked out with the legislature during budget negotiations, her staff had to later clarify that the city and state will actually be splitting the cost.

Although there was over $9 billion allotted for various transportation initiatives, the $252 billion fiscal year 2026 executive budget did not mention any funds for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's 2025-2029 capital plan.