Former governor and potential mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo opposes Gov. Kathy Hochul’s controversial $9 congestion toll to enter Midtown Manhattan, The Post has learned.
It’s the first time Cuomo has weighed in on the $9 commuter tax since Hochul unveiled it after the November elections.
“It is undeniable that New York is in a dramatically different place today than it was in 2019, and without a study forecasting [the toll’s] consequences based on facts, not politics, it could do more harm than good to New York City’s recovery,” Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi told The Post on Sunday, referring to his boss’s stance on the new commuter tax.
Cuomo is sort of the father of congestion pricing in the US. He was largely responsible for muscling the first-in-the-nation congestion toll plan through New York’s legislature in 2019 to help fund mass transit and curb traffic in Manhattan’s central business district.