More than three dozen advocacy and nonprofit groups are calling on the Mamdani administration to expand discounted bus and subway rides through the Fair Fares program — and to make all ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Recently, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority installed a Fair Fares kiosk in the customer service center at the St. George Ferry Terminal. Located at the Staten Island ...

The expansion would offer free transit on the subway and bus for people making up to 150 percent of the federal poverty level, which is not a lot.

The city's half-price subway and bus fare program, Fair Fares, sets an extremely low threshold for household income to qualify. The Regional Plan Association found it to be lower than all but five ...