$27B transformation of MTA to begin with 3 Brooklyn stations
Cuomo: 1,025 new subway cars, 31 rebuilt stations
Gov. Andrew Cuomo unveiled a $27 billion transformation of New York City’s mass transit system Monday morning at the Transit Museum in Downtown Brooklyn.
“It’s the recreation of the MTA,” Cuomo told reporters and others at the press conference.
He was joined by MTA Chair and CEO Thomas Prendergast, President of NYC Transit Veronique Hakim, and elected officials, including Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams and Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon. Mayor Bill de Blasio is out of town on a family trip to Italy.