NYC Ferry ran deeper in red than de Blasio
administration let on — city hid $224M
in costs from 2015 to 2021, audit finds
Posted By: Ribicon, 7/6/2022 11:51:14 PM
City officials hid just how far underwater ex-Mayor Bill de Blasio’s NYC Ferry project went, the city comptroller says. Dubious bookkeeping girded city officials’ claims the interborough boat service—which plies city waters from the Bronx to Queens, and is priced to compete with subways and buses—cost 30% less to operate than the actual numbers showed, according to the report by Comptroller Brad Lander. The ferries cost $758 million to operate from July 2015 through December 2021—$224 million more than the $534 million in costs reported by de Blasio administration officials during that period, the auditors found.(Snip)Hornblower—the company contracted to run the ferries
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Treasury Dept. blocking probe into Hunter
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Family of Marine jailed in Russia slams
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There's just something about Warren Wilhelm, aka Bill de Blasio. Noo Yawkizz would probably vote him right back in should he find himself running low on funds. Mayor Big Bird set the fares at $2.75 per, with a $6.60/ride subsidy that really was $12.88 per, and there's no doubt that "federal money" was poured down this drain. The ferry operator was allowed to rob the city of millions of dollars too; maybe they are a valued Friend of Bill.