The private security guards are meant to deter fare evasion, but some City Council members questioned the wisdom of the initiative and call it "a waste of taxpayers’ money."
July is Disability Pride Month, yet thousands of tenants with disabilities living in privately managed NYCHA buildings have little reason to celebrate. Many are trapped in unsafe and inaccessible apartments thanks to a little-known NYCHA policy that severely limits their ability to transfer apartments effectively making them prisoners in their own homes or forcibly homeless.
On Rich Davey’s first day as Transit Authority president today, he’ll start dealing with crime, homelessness and missing passengers, as ridership is at best only 60% of the pre-COVID numbers. Davey ran the T in Boston before heading transportation statewide. We hope he’s as successful on Broadway as other Boston imports Mike Bloomberg, Bill Bratton and Babe Ruth.