Metropolitan Transportation Authority

Panelists discuss the implications of working from home in a hybrid manner, rising crime and falling mass transit ridership, vulnerable revenue sources and the lack of affordable housing at a New York Fed event.

Davey will oversee operations for the city’s subways, buses, paratransit services and the Staten Island Railway.

The Volcker Alliance looks at the state’s outstanding municipal bonds and $83 billion in other obligations and suggests improved transparency and oversight.

As the MTA works toward a post-pandemic future, Kevin Willens, formerly co-head of public finance at Goldman Sachs, becomes its chief financial officer.

The latest round of federal aid is not enough to move the needle over the long term.

The window of opportunity is open thanks to new projects, new state and city leadership, emerging projects and better systems to benefit travelers.

The agreement will move along the Penn Station Access commuter rail undertaking and East River tunnel fix-ups.

Putting aside dynamics such as federal pandemic aid and congestion pricing, the transit authority's latest financial plan had a rinse-and-repeat feel.

New York, New Jersey and Connecticut finally come to terms on splitting up emergency funding.

Gov. Kathy Hochul's thrusts include the MTA Open Data Act; state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli launched a federal COVID-19 funding tracker.

Options for the beleaguered transit authority include expanding its commuter rail base and cracking down on fare evasion.

New York, New Jersey and Connecticut are at odds over how to split COVID relief money and the federal government won't step in.

New York's governor leaned on the Port Authority to pause the LaGuardia project amid wider debate about regional infrastructure.

While move-outs still outpace move-ins, the rate at which people are leaving has slowed and returned to near pre-pandemic patterns. A return by workers to offices is also rising, but occupancy in the city remains lower than almost all major metropolitan areas in the U.S. except for San Jose and San Francisco in California.

State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli's annual report reinfornced the transit authority's struggles that took hold during the pandemic.

Concerns range from frayed infrastructure to better communication in the face of the deadly flash flooding that caught the city by surprise in storm Ida.

ReThinkNYC, battling entrenched transit and real-estate interests in its call for a unified network, cites economic development gains and capital savings.

The MTA budgets 16 months for environmental review of the tolling project for Manhattan's central business district.

Refinitiv Lipper reported $1.87 billion inflows. A solid demand component for the market, but some suggest the move into bonds from equities is more an asset reallocation than investors keen on fixed income.

Rising sea levels could make catastrophic events such as recent subway flooding more intense and frequent in places including New York and Boston.