Reinvent Albany Backs Governor Hochul’s Ban on State Employees Using Insider Information to Profit from Prediction Markets buff.ly/VPdFp57

Statement on Mayor’s NYC DOI Nominee and Council Vetting - Reinvent Albany Vigorous Council Vetting & Desire for Independent DOI Welcome; Mayor’s Nominee Appears Well-Qualified   Nominee’s Pledge Not to Discuss Investigations with City Hall is Crucial   Because of interest…

Statement on Mayor’s NYC DOI Nominee and Council Vetting: Vigorous Council Vetting & Desire for Independent DOI Welcome; Mayor’s Nominee Appears Well-Qualified
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Groups Oppose New Legislative Push on Subway Staffing; One-Person Train Operation the Global Norm - Reinvent Albany See our groups’ letter below opposing the renewed legislative push on subway staffing, as covered today by Evan Simko-Bednarski in the NY Daily News. April 1, 2026 VIA EMAIL Majority Leader Andrea…

See our groups' @cbcny.bsky.social @etany.org @partnership4nyc.bsky.social @rpa.org & Transit Costs Project letter opposing the renewed push to mandate two subway crew members per train here: buff.ly/YCZxQzP

Is Madison Square Garden really moving? Where the arena could wind up The idea’s been floated for years — move Madison Square Garden so it’s no longer on top of Penn Station.

“The problem is we don’t know exactly what Amtrak is asking the bidders to submit to them," @rachaelfauss.bsky.social, says the deal might allow real estate giants to profit. “But there may be a backdoor way for New York taxpayers to pay for it if the feds are proposing development as part of this."

We’re heading to NYC School of Data this Saturday, and we’re proud to sponsor sessions like this one hosted by @newyorkstateag.bsky.social.

Learn how linking lobbying, campaign finance, and other data can reveal who’s shaping policy in New York. 💸🤝📜

Don’t miss it 👇
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🎉 Great news today - FOIL Reporting bill passed the Assembly! 🎉
🔆We celebrated Sunshine Week yesterday with key legislators @jamesskoufis.bsky.social @liunewyork.bsky.social @johnmcdonald108.bsky.social @lindabrosenthal.bsky.social @philsteckny.bsky.social AM Raga and transparency advocates 🔆

☀️ Sunshine Week is here and NY can lead ☀️
Our groups to the Legislature: pass 4 key bills to strengthen NY's Freedom of Information Law. Let’s make NY a bright spot against rising secrecy
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Reinvent Albany Take on New York’s FY 2027 One-House Budgets - Reinvent Albany Big Picture  New York State continues to reel from large reductions in federal aid, including to New York’s Medicaid Essential Plan that could leave close to 400,000 New Yorkers without health care,…

See what earns a 👍️ / 👎️ / 😐️ in our take on New York's FY27 One-House budgets: buff.ly/N9hnfUq

Finally a reprieve from the constant terrible news at the federal level. This is great news for congestion pricing and NYC.

Actually committed means that the MTA is in contract to pay it. So slightly different. The MTA bonded for that $5B and entered into contracts with vendors up to that value.

See also here - www.mta.info/document/199...

I mean *2025 was their best year ever!

Good factoid from the MTA board meeting today - $5B of the $15B in commitments for capital projects in 2025 came from congestion pricing revenues. That's huge - 2024 was their biggest year ever and shows how important CP is as a revenue stream.

Key Sources for Amtrak’s “New York Penn Station Transformation Project” - Reinvent Albany Updated February 23, 2026 Reinvent Albany is closely tracking developments regarding Amtrak’s proposed “New York Penn Transformation” project. To aid advocates, stakeholders, and journalists who are…

We've put together some Key Resources on Amtrak's "New York Penn Station Transformation Project," including answers provided by Amtrak to our questions about the project.

Check it out - we will keep updating it as we learn more:

Listening to FOIL 2026 Report: Big Gaps Between Best/Worst of 11 NYS Agencies - Reinvent Albany Listening to FOIL 2026: Lessons from 11 New York State Agencies Big variation in responsiveness suggests a path to improvement by poor-performing agencies – many of which are not using efficiency…

NEW: "Listening to FOIL 2026" report shows big gaps between best/worst 11 agencies.

We analyzed 16k records requests to evaluate response times, backlogs & more.

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Check out Reinvent Albany's list of 10 things Mayor Mamdani can do to strengthen transparency, ethics, and democracy:
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Take note reporter friends - more lame duck Adams admin shenanigans, this time on press credentials 🤦‍♀️

Chapter amendments aren't usually available until they are introduced as a bill the next year. But from what we have heard they would scale back some of the more open-ended language like "providing service." But devil is in the details so withholding judgment until we read it.

Reinvent Albany @cbcny.bsky.social @partnership4nyc.bsky.social @rpa.org and Transit Costs Project thank @governor.ny.gov for vetoing A4873/S4091, the bill that would have prohibited MTA from using one-person train operation (OPTO). See our statement: buff.ly/PI2zEAH

Pretty proud of this report + working with an awesome team to make a searchable database of NYS Senate votes. Hopefully we will get ourselves out of a job on this one and the Senate will start publishing the votes online.

Reinvent Albany Urges Governor to Veto Bus Lane Enforcement Carve-Out for MTA Workers - Reinvent Albany MEMO OF OPPOSITION   S6815 (Comrie) / A8292 (Cunningham)   No Bus Lane Enforcement Carve-Outs! TITLE OF BILL An act to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to an affirmative defense for bus…

Gov Hochul should veto S6815/A8292 – giving MTA workers an automatic defense for bus-lane violations meddles in NYC and MTA management and could encourage misuse of agency vehicles.
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Bus riders in the Bronx deserve faster rides. Gov Hochul should indeed veto this bill.

👏👏👏 I've been advocating for a new MTA capital dashboard since 2018 (!) so very happy to see the MTA finally build a new, better dashboard.

SO happy this passed, and with nearly all the good stuff still in there!

Let's GOOO! Now it's up for Adams to sign, and the Mamdani admin to implement it.

Looks like I will soon have 2 transparency babies to tend. MTA Open Data + NYC FOIL reporting

Happy to be back testifying to MTA Board about OPTO! Let's GO Hochul and VETO this bill.

Does the Subway Still Need Train Conductors?

Thanks to @stefanoschen.bsky.social and @nytimes.com for picking up our report on global transit operations. It’s clear that the rest of the world has moved toward more automated and leaner operations without the sky falling. Legislating ops from Albany is overreach:

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But if the bill is passed, the M.T.A. would be prohibited from shifting to one-person operation on those and other trains, said Rachael Fauss, senior policy adviser at Reinvent Albany, a good governance group.

“It’s kind of flushing the benefits of C.B.T.C. down the toilet,” she said.

Does the Subway Still Need Train Conductors?

Does the subway still need conductors? Much of the world say no, but union leaders say it's a safety issue. Gov. Hochul has to decide by year end whether to sign a bill that would mandate two-person train crews, even on lines that already moved to one operator www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/n...