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Friday, April 26, 2019
Vol. 68, No. 17
HEALTH & WELLNESS
HAPPY HEARTS CHEERS SENIORS
MANGANO SENTENCING DATE SET FOR OCT. 3
PAGES 35-46
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New MTA chair understands L.I. riders’ pain
BIG IDEAS
Port resident Foye says commuters have stake in whole system’s operations BY J E S S I C A PA R K S MTA Chairman and CEO Patrick Foye may be the new head of New York City’s public transit, but when riding the 6 a.m. train from Port Washington, he is just your average commuter. “I’ve been riding the subways since I was literally an infant and have been riding the LIRR for the past 30 years,” Foye said in an interview with Blank Slate Media. “Except for two years when I lived in Europe.” Foye continues to ride both the LIRR and the subway every day, he said. The chairman was nominated for the role by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and was later confirmed by the state Senate and Assembly to begin his new job April 1. He previously served as the president of the MTA, beginning in August 2017 after a six-year run as the executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
Foye, who is a lawyer, said the MTA touches the lives of millions of people every day and as a decades-long patron of its services he brings that first-hand experience to his position. He succeeds acting Chairman Fernando Ferrer, who served after Joe Lhota resigned in November during his second stint at the helm of the largest public transportation system in the nation. The MTA runs New York City’s subways, buses, bridges and tunnels and two commuter railroads, the LIRR and MetroNorth. Foye, who is a proponent of Central Business District Tolling, discussed the MTA capital plan and what it means for Long Island. He said for the 2020 capital plan, $32 billion is earmarked for the MTA when in previous years that figure was zero. Of those funds, 10 percent Continued on Page 62
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Steven Blank, publisher of Blank Slate Media, hosted “On the Record” last Thursday, a forum that focused on immigration. See story on page 6.
E.W. ed board trustees running unopposed BY S H E L BY TA L C O T T Two East Williston Board of Education trustees, David Keefe and Alan Littman, will be running unopposed for their spots on the board.
Keefe is the board president of the New York State Teachers’ Retirement System and is a former Hempstead public school teacher. He retired from teaching in 2004 and has served on numerous education and community committees.
This would be Keefe’s fourth term as trustee. Littman was sworn in for his first three-year term in 2016 after running unopposed. Littman is an insurance salesman and graduate of the Continued on Page 63
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