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Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance is likely a lame duck and declined to prosecute Donald Trump’s children in 2012, but he may be the one person who can now hold the former president accountable for his actions. While an impeachment conviction seems unlikely in Washington, Vance’s office has been slowly gathering evidence in a criminal probe of Trump’s personal and corporate tax returns. Vance’s prosecutors let slip in court papers they were examining possible tax, bank, and insurance fraud charges – which are not subject to a presidential pardon.
APTA/EBP Analysis: $39.3B Transit Shortfall Written by Marybeth Luczak, Executive Editor
New York MTA staff participated this week in the Mask Force program among the initiatives that public transportation agencies have undertaken to protect riders and employees during the pandemic. (Marc A. Hermann / MTA)
Public transit agencies are facing a projected shortfall of $39.3 billion through the end of 2023 due to the pandemic, according to findings from an independent economic analysis conducted by EBP US Inc. for the American Public Transportation Association (APTA).
While agency operations have received support, in part, from the CARES Act ($25 billion) and the recently enacted Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2021 ($14 billion), gaps exist due to ongoing losses of ridership, fare revenue, and state and local tax revenue. This translates to projected transit funding needs of $25.2 billion in 2021,
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An art exhibition in select stations across New York City honors the lives of the 107 MTA workers who have died of coronavirus. (Marc A. Hermann / MTA)
QUEENS, NY More than a dozen Queens subway stations are showing a new art installation honoring the 100-plus Metropolitan Transit Authority workers who have lost their lives to COVID-19.
The installation, Travels Far: A Memorial Honoring Our Colleagues Lost to COVID-19, ties together pictures of the fallen MTA workers and a poem by Tracy K. Smith, a former U.S. Poet Laureate, that was commissioned specifically for the project.
As part of the memorial, a video will play twice consecutively three times a day, at 10:30 a.m., 2:30 p.m., and 8:30 p.m., from this Monday through Sunday at 107 New York City subway stations. The video can also be found on the MTA s website.