Jose Martinez, Author at THE CITY - NYC News

The MTA installed new turnstile guards at the City Hall-Brooklyn Bridge station.

Turnstile Armor Is MTA’s Latest Defense Against Farebeaters

Feb. 12, 2025, 5:43 p.m.Feb. 12, 2025, 10:00 p.m.

The new metal sheaths first appeared Tuesday at Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall, the latest line of defense thwarting chronic evasion of the $2.90 cost to enter subways.

The MTA opened a new elevator at the Woodhaven station in Queens.

Subway

Straight to the Top: New Nonstop Elevators to Speed Subway Accessibility Coverage

Feb. 5, 2025, 5:00 a.m.Feb. 4, 2025, 6:30 p.m.

The J/Z’s Woodhaven Boulevard station in Queens is the first stop in the system where elevators by an existing turnstile level and deposit riders directly at the platform.

7 trains sit in an MTA maintenance facility near Citi Field.

How to New York

Budgeting to Avoid ‘Summer of Hell’: Your Guide to the MTA’s Capital Program

Jan. 30, 2025, 5:00 a.m.Jan. 29, 2025, 7:15 p.m.

The sprawling transit agency’s much talked about, multi-year, major-projects plan almost always takes a winding route to the finish line.

Subway cleaners work around at the Jamaica Center terminal in Queens, Jan. 22, 2025.

Homelessness

As Temperatures Plunge, Subways Serve as Rolling Shelters

Jan. 23, 2025, 1:14 p.m.Jan. 23, 2025, 5:18 p.m.

When sleeping on the street is deadly and shelters are dangerous, homeless New Yorkers looking for warmth and a place to lay their head retreat underground.

The Bronx

New Fridge Units Planned for Hunts Point as Congestion Pricing’s Clean Air Efforts Kick In

Jan. 23, 2025, 5:00 a.m.Jan. 22, 2025, 5:27 p.m.

These are the first of the MTA promised pollution mitigation measures to make up for additional traffic neighborhoods outside of the Central Business District.

A transit worker walks along a section of the Second Avenue Subway tunnel under East Harlem, Nov. 23, 2021.

Manhattan

Second Ave. Subway’s Next Leg Progresses With Promise of Congestion Pricing Funds

Jan. 13, 2025, 5:05 a.m.Jan. 13, 2025, 12:37 p.m.

Engineering proposals on tunneling and structural shell work are due by March 5 and a contract is expected to be awarded by the third quarter of this year.

A driver stops at a red light near a congressional pricing scanner next to City Hall in lower Manhattan.

Congestion Pricing

Car Tolls Turn on in Manhattan as MTA Waits for Money and Results to Roll In

Jan. 6, 2025, 11:43 a.m.Jan. 6, 2025, 10:18 p.m.

On the first days, drivers struggled to avoid paying the congestion charge. One even said she’d leave New York because of it.

Seven adults and one child in a Spiderman backpack walk out onto Utica Ave to board the B46 Bus. A commuter van is seen on the left, parked in the bus lane.

Buses

Vans Vs. Buses: Swarm of Unlicensed Operators Battles MTA for Street Space and Commuters

Jan. 3, 2025, 5:00 a.m.Jan. 2, 2025, 5:29 p.m.

As legitimate dollar van operators get priced out by high insurance rates, off-the-books competitors are taking their place.

Transit

Bronx Subway Station Saga Shows Long Winding Road to Accessibility

Dec. 20, 2024, 5:00 a.m.Dec. 20, 2024, 11:20 a.m.

Work to bring elevators to the No. 6’s Middletown Road stop is set to begin in February, nearly a decade after a federal lawsuit said it had to be done.

Riders board an SBS express bus on West 34th Street, March 6, 2020.

Transit

MTA Nabs Federal Money to Study the New Psychology of Fare Beating

Dec. 13, 2024, 5:00 a.m.Dec. 12, 2024, 5:24 p.m.

Facing a behavioral shift seen since the pandemic, the transit agency is pulling out all the stops to figure out how to get people to pay their own way.

Jose Martinez

Turnstile Armor Is MTA’s Latest Defense Against Farebeaters

Straight to the Top: New Nonstop Elevators to Speed Subway Accessibility Coverage

Budgeting to Avoid ‘Summer of Hell’: Your Guide to the MTA’s Capital Program

As Temperatures Plunge, Subways Serve as Rolling Shelters

New Fridge Units Planned for Hunts Point as Congestion Pricing’s Clean Air Efforts Kick In

Second Ave. Subway’s Next Leg Progresses With Promise of Congestion Pricing Funds

Car Tolls Turn on in Manhattan as MTA Waits for Money and Results to Roll In

Vans Vs. Buses: Swarm of Unlicensed Operators Battles MTA for Street Space and Commuters

Bronx Subway Station Saga Shows Long Winding Road to Accessibility

MTA Nabs Federal Money to Study the New Psychology of Fare Beating

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