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NYC Transportation Report – February 2025

🚨 Tunnels, Tolls & Transit Tensions: Welcome to Edition #21 of the BOMA-NY Transportation Report 🗞️ February 2025 | BOMA-NY Codes & Regs Committee Five weeks into congestion pricing and we’ve seen the good, the bad, the ugly—and the Upper West Side’s hippo count. From faster trip times to political firestorms, the tolling era has

By |2025-06-08T09:44:51-05:00February 13th, 2025|BOMA, commercial real estate, Transportation|

NYC Transportation Report – December 2024

🚦Congestion Countdown: Welcome to Edition #20 of the BOMA-NY Transportation Report 🗞️ December 2024 | BOMA-NY Codes & Regs Committee Just in time for the New Year—and possibly a legal showdown—the MTA has given the green light: Congestion Pricing will begin January 5, 2025. After months of lawsuits, political reversals, toll tweaks, and more false

By |2025-06-08T09:39:47-05:00December 15th, 2024|BOMA, commercial real estate, Transportation|

NYC Transportation Report – November 2024

🦃 Raccoons, Robo-Taxis & the Return of the Macy’s Parade: Welcome to Edition #19 of the BOMA-NY Transportation Report 🗞️ November 2024 | BOMA-NY Codes & Regs Committee This month’s transportation report delivers a full Thanksgiving spread of policy twists, infrastructure drama, and strange-but-true headlines. We're talking about raccoons dropping from LaGuardia ceilings, panda motorcades,

By |2025-06-08T09:33:42-05:00November 12th, 2024|BOMA, commercial real estate, Transportation|

NYC Transportation Report – October 2024

🎃 Bed Bugs, Botched Plans & Barnacle Crackdowns: Welcome to Edition #18 of the BOMA-NY Transportation Report 🗞️ October 2024 | BOMA-NY Codes & Regs Committee If this report had a Halloween costume, it would be dressed as “Transit Infrastructure Crisis,” carrying a tote bag filled with lithium-ion battery recalls, congestion pricing lawsuits, robotaxis gone

By |2025-06-08T09:27:53-05:00October 10th, 2024|BOMA, commercial real estate, Transportation|

Bring Home Memories – Not Bed Bugs From The Fantastic Paris Olympics

The Paris Olympics were an amazing spectacle. From a memorable opening ceremony (Celine Dion, Lady Gaga, Boat Parade)  to the closing spectacle of a movie star and gymnast Simone Biles sending the Olympic flag to 2028 host Los Angeles. Snoop Dog was everywhere! The US Men's basketball "Avengers" team overcame tough challenges from Serbia and France.

By |2025-04-22T18:08:21-05:00August 12th, 2024|bed bugs, bed bugs nyc, rats, roscoe, travel|

First Cases Of West Nile Virus Detected In NJ – Beware Mosquitoes!

While many suspect that the New Jersey state bird is either the Common House Mosquito (Culex pipiens) or a driver's middle finger, it's really the Eastern Goldfinch, but for how long who knows. All joking aside, mosquitoes are a disease vector that are rightly of concern for a residents. (BTW- despite its reputation for aggressive

By |2025-04-22T18:09:17-05:00August 5th, 2024|mosquitoes, Public Health|

NYC Transportation Report – June 2024

🚧 Flip-Flops, Federal Lawsuits & Bathroom Maps: Welcome to Edition #16 of the BOMA-NY Transportation Report 🗞️ June 2024 | BOMA-NY Codes & Regs Committee This month, the transportation world turned upside down—again. Just weeks before launch, Governor Hochul pulled the plug on congestion pricing, flipping the switch on one of NYC’s most hyped (and

By |2025-06-08T09:18:05-05:00June 20th, 2024|BOMA, commercial real estate, Transportation|

NYC Transportation Report – September 2023

🚦Planes, Trains & Teslas Imploding: Welcome to Edition #15 of the BOMA-NY Transportation Report For May 2024 🗞️ May 2024 | BOMA-NY Codes & Regs Committee Just when you thought the news couldn’t get more chaotic, NYC transit manages to outdo itself. Welcome to the fifteenth edition of the BOMA-NY Transportation Report—featuring subway ghosts, stolen

By |2025-06-08T09:14:18-05:00May 9th, 2024|BOMA, commercial real estate, Transportation|
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