After eight years of legal push and pull, a major complaint that the city’s practice of giving local residents preference in affordable housing lotteries will get its day in court. Good.
New York City has America’s biggest and best transit network, a $18-billion-a-year mobility machine that relies heavily on public subsidy. While fares cover a hefty share if not all of the operating costs in Tokyo, Hong Kong and London, here farebox adds up to just a quarter of what it takes to run the system. Which is to say, every last penny of lost revenue matters, especially as tracks and wheels rest on especially wobbly post-pandemic fiscal foundation.
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Congress, the DOJ, the New York Attorney General and other agencies are struggling because the system was never built to hold powerful white men to account.
The mayor has repeatedly tied the city’s spate of gun violence to what he describes as the state’s overly lax criminal justice laws a point he reiterated at Monday’s event.