Andrew Cuomo told NY1’s Errol Louis in his first general election interview that, as mayor, he’d take over the subway system.

“Let us do the capital projects,” the independent candidate for mayor told Louis in July. “Let us do the maintenance because the place stinks, literally.”

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On Tuesday, in front of the Association for a Better New York (ABNY), he reiterated that plan and released more details to not only clean the subway, as he had during the pandemic, but also upgrade the system

The plan includes the many of the same projects included and funded in the MTA's current capital plan, and proposes many of the same contracting and construction methods already employed the MTA

While the city owns the physical infrastructure and leases it to the MTA, it's unclear w

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