Andrew Cuomo

State authorization for design-build use on a Brooklyn-Queens Expressway work is a door-opener, New York City transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg said.

The Independent Budget Office said state mandates are putting a burden on New York City finances.

The former presidential candidate implored New York and New Jersey to enable their cities to execute streamlined project delivery.

New York's mayor said hits from Albany and threats from Washington affected the city's latest spending plan.

While New York MTA's proposed 2.4% bump in its five-year capital program involved no new funds, it generated spirited debate on several fronts.

Components of the MTA's bus-overhaul initiative could pave the way for congestion pricing, which New York's state legislature essentially sidestepped this year.

The New York City Housing Authority's challenges include a roughly $20 billion capital-needs backlog, federal aid cutbacks, state intervention and a worsening public perception.

They say the city’s massive capital program needs right-sizing to solve a problem that goes back several administrations.

As the New York City Housing Authority crisis festers, streamlined project delivery could help speed up emergency repairs and fund other capital needs.

Council Speaker Corey Johnson spelled out several conditions for such an increase to MTA Chairman Joe Lhota.

The declaration could expedite contracting for repairs at NYCHA units through limited city use of design-build project delivery.

"We have to find new solutions," said Partnership for New York president Kathryn Wylde.

Inaction, significant new debt and failure to control labor costs and other cost drivers could pose major bondholder risks, says a Gurtin report.

New York City Council member Robert Cornegy Jr. called the city administration's management of public housing incompetent.

A provision in the New York governor's budget plan would enable the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to create tax increment financing districts in New York City.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan has drawn strong positive and negative reactions.

City officials intend to fight language that they say would put the city on the hook for emergency repairs by the state-run MTA.

Key variables include how Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the MTA would use the roughly $1 billion projected for mass transit, New York City's role and how Albany would tweak the measure.

While dodging the actual phrase, Gov. Andrew Cuomo suggested now is the time to seriously consider a tolling plan to fund subway and street repair in New York City.

Skeptics question whether the MTA can deliver on time and on budget after it fumbled other big projects.