New York|Subways to Get Station Upgrades, and Governor Gets His Way
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Subways to Get Station Upgrades, and Governor Gets His Way
The closed 36th Avenue station in Astoria, Queens, is covered in the billion-dollar initiative to install amenities in nearly three dozen stations that some have criticized as cosmetic.Credit…An Rong Xu for The New York Times
By Sarah Maslin Nir
- Feb. 22, 2018
What had seemed like a rare win for Mayor Bill de Blasio — sidelining Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s plan to add amenities like new lighting and USB ports at nearly three dozen New York City subway stations — turned into another defeat on Thursday when the subway’s governing board approved Mr. Cuomo’s plan.
The 10-3 vote by the board of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which runs the subway, to approve contracts to refurbish nine of the stations essentially ended the dispute between the two leaders in familiar fashion — with the governor having the upper hand.
The $250 million [...]
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