🎉 September 2025 Supersized BOMA-NY Transportation Report 🗞️

September 2025 | BOMA-NY Codes & Regs Committee

Welcome to Edition #26 — 🗽Gridlock, Diplomats, and Drones—It’s UN Week, and the September BOMA-NY Transportation Report Is Here

Welcome to the Supersized September 2025 Edition of the BOMA-NY Transportation Report: your essential monthly mix of facts, foresight, and forehead-slaps for NYC commercial property managers.

We put on a cover worthy of The New Yorker, for this report written for New Yorkers.

It’s that stressful time of year again: UN General Assembly Week (Sept 22–26), when Manhattan’s east side becomes a sea of sirens, stalled traffic, and motorcades that seem to move slower than a sidewalk espresso cart. This month’s report delivers more than fair warning — it skewers the week’s diplomatic parking disaster potential with a string of fake-but-familiar headlines like “We Regret to Inform You That Your Uber is in Paraguay.” Consider this your official heads-up to stock up on coffee, patience, and maybe roller blades.

But UN Week isn’t the only show in town. This edition also dives into the real, sourced, and serious transportation issues you need to track to keep buildings running smoothly. From flooded subways and air traffic controller shortages, to congestion pricing court battles, airport runway chaos, and the occasional Harrison Ford sighting (still our favorite unofficial transportation celebrity), the report balances wit and wisdom to give our BOMA readers a smile.

Heads up: It’s long. It’s loaded. And it’s got TSA changes, breaking news, Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me jokes, and a healthy serving of useful, deeply cited transportation insights. We’re not saying it’ll make UN Week less terrible—but it will make you smarter while you wait.

📌 Key Topics Covered in the September 2025 Report

  • UN Week Prep: Hilarious fake headlines aside, expect extreme congestion, high-level security zones, and slowdowns across Midtown. Plan accordingly.
  • Aviation Alerts: From turbulence-induced hospitalizations to air traffic control shakeups, the friendly skies aren’t so friendly. Newark’s operations improve while flight caps stay in place through 2026.
  • Congestion Pricing Works: New stats show fewer drivers, lower tunnel delays, and increased MTA revenue—but legal challenges remain.
  • Infrastructure in Crisis: Subways, sewers, highways, and bridges all face climate and age-related stress. Meanwhile, Amtrak eyes a long overdue Acela upgrade.
  • New Transit Features: Bus fare-shaming screens, e-bike enforcement squads, new ferry routes, and interactive transit tech pilots are reshaping how New Yorkers move.
  • Transit Crime & Fare Evasion: Mixed signals as subway crime declines but new surveillance proposals raise eyebrows.
  • Pop Culture Cameos: Harrison Ford, Jerry Seinfeld, and even Madonna make cameos (sort of). Surely we can’t be serious? Yes, we’re serious and don’t call us Shirley.
  • Extreme Weather & Flooding: Another record-summer of heat, flash flooding, and subway geysers. MTA calls for urgent investment in sewer infrastructure.
  • Jersey Watch: NJ’s infrastructure is always something we watch, and note our favorite two Bon Jovi-themed highway signs.

👷 Whether you’re managing traffic patterns, elevator upgrades, or just navigating the asphalt absurdity of late-September Midtown, this report is your cheat sheet for what’s moving (or not) in NYC transportation.

📍Read the full BOMA-NY September 2025 Transportation Report: Downloadable as 2025-09-TransportationReport-BOMANYCodesRegs and stay alert, informed, and—ideally—not stuck on 2nd Avenue behind a diplomat’s Range Rover.

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