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Interagency vehicle interdiction operation at the Cross Bay Veterans Memorial Bridge on Wednesday, May 8, 2024.
(Marc A. Hermann / MTA)
Linking the bridge and tunnel is the man-made island of Peberholm, constructed from the material dredged from the Øresund seabed to accommodate the bridge piers and the tunnel
Interagency vehicle interdiction operation at the Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge on Wednesday, May 8, 2024.
NYPD.
(Marc A. Hermann / MTA)
Interagency vehicle interdiction operation at the Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge on Wednesday, May 8, 2024.
NYPD.
(Marc A. Hermann / MTA)
Interagency vehicle interdiction operation at the Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge on Wednesday, May 8, 2024.
NYPD.
(Marc A. Hermann / MTA)
Interagency vehicle interdiction operation at the Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge on Wednesday, May 8, 2024.
NYPD.
(Marc A. Hermann / MTA)
Through 25 joint enforcement operations focusing on ghost plates and persistent toll violators on bridges and in tunnels throughout New York City, MTA Bridge and Tunnel officers, NYPD officers and local law enforcement partners have impounded 1,540 vehicles, made 339 arrests and issued 12,007 summonses. These drivers owe more than $12.5 million in unpaid tolls and fees.
Credit: MTA
Through 25 joint enforcement operations focusing on ghost plates and persistent toll violators on bridges and in tunnels throughout New York City, MTA Bridge and Tunnel officers, NYPD officers and local law enforcement partners have impounded 1,540 vehicles, made 339 arrests and issued 12,007 summonses. These drivers owe more than $12.5 million in unpaid tolls and fees.
Credit: MTA
Through 25 joint enforcement operations focusing on ghost plates and persistent toll violators on bridges and in tunnels throughout New York City, MTA Bridge and Tunnel officers, NYPD officers and local law enforcement partners have impounded 1,540 vehicles, made 339 arrests and issued 12,007 summonses. These drivers owe more than $12.5 million in unpaid tolls and fees.
Credit: MTA
On Tuesday, October 14, 2025, MTA Bridges and Tunnels was awarded the prestigious President’s Award for Excellence by the International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association (IBTTA) – the highest honor in the international tolling industry – for the agency’s successful Central Business District Tolling Program and the Congestion Relief Zone (CRZ).
The program also earned IBTTA’s Toll Excellence Award for Social Responsibility.
Larry Henson, Northeast Vice President for Operations TransCore
Allison C. de Cerreño, MTA Bridges and Tunnels Chief Operating Officer
Catherine Sheridan, MTA Bridges and Tunnels President
Whitt Hall, President & CEO TransCore
Clint Holley, Chief Operating Officer TransCore
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Interagency vehicle interdiction operation at the Cross Bay Veterans Memorial Bridge on Wednesday, May 8, 2024.
MTAPD.
(Marc A. Hermann / MTA)
Through 25 joint enforcement operations focusing on ghost plates and persistent toll violators on bridges and in tunnels throughout New York City, MTA Bridge and Tunnel officers, NYPD officers and local law enforcement partners have impounded 1,540 vehicles, made 339 arrests and issued 12,007 summonses. These drivers owe more than $12.5 million in unpaid tolls and fees.
Credit: MTA
On October 15, 2024, The Port Authority Police, NYPD, NY State Police, NYC Sherriff, New York State Department of Motor Vehicles, MTA Police/ Tunnel and Bridge Officers/ Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Agency and New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission Police participated in an Interagency Task Force Operation at the Outerbridge Crossing in Staten Island.
Credit: PANYNJ
BY PETE DONOHUE
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
MTA investigators are keeping a secret database of people stopped and questioned for filming or photographing bridges and tunnels as part of the agency's efforts to thwart terror, the Daily News has learned.
The information is used to try to determine whether shutterbugs are simply putting together vacation slide shows - or gathering intelligence to plot mayhem, law enforcement sources said.
In one instance, a man was questioned for filming on the Verrazano Bridge. He was questioned and released.
A few days later, authorities in another state stopped someone filming on a bridge and asked the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's Interagency Counter Terrorism Task Force if it had information about the person, the sources said.
It turned out the other state's shutterbug was using the same vehicle as the man who was stopped for filming on the Verrazano, sources said.
The sources declined to elaborate on the investigation.
But one source noted that in general, if someone pops up twice filming a crossing, "You start to develop a case.
"Some may not go to a full-blown case that involves an arrest, but it develops into intelligence where you can establish a trail where you can tie individuals together that otherwise would have gone unknown," the source said.
In at least some cases, the film is kept, sources said, and in all cases the images are reviewed.
"By reviewing the film you can tell if they are tourists or if they are cluing in, and you can see on certain films they are cluing in on beams, they are cluing in on security checkpoints," one source said. "Those are the ones that appear to be more than just casual filming."
Another source said those who were stopped let investigators review their film voluntarily. The source was not aware of anyone refusing.
"Most of the time they show us the images right there because they are tourists," the source said.
MTA Bridges and Tunnels oversees seven bridges - the Verrazano, Triborough, Throgs Neck, Whitestone, Henry Hudson, Marine Parkway and Cross Bay Veterans Memorial - and two tunnels, the Midtown and the Battery.
The crossings are used by 800,000 vehicles a day.
Through 25 joint enforcement operations focusing on ghost plates and persistent toll violators on bridges and in tunnels throughout New York City, MTA Bridge and Tunnel officers, NYPD officers and local law enforcement partners have impounded 1,540 vehicles, made 339 arrests and issued 12,007 summonses. These drivers owe more than $12.5 million in unpaid tolls and fees.
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On Tuesday, October 14, 2025, MTA Bridges and Tunnels was awarded the prestigious President’s Award for Excellence by the International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association (IBTTA) – the highest honor in the international tolling industry – for the agency’s successful Central Business District Tolling Program and the Congestion Relief Zone (CRZ).
The program also earned IBTTA’s Toll Excellence Award for Social Responsibility.
Credit: MTA
Through 25 joint enforcement operations focusing on ghost plates and persistent toll violators on bridges and in tunnels throughout New York City, MTA Bridge and Tunnel officers, NYPD officers and local law enforcement partners have impounded 1,540 vehicles, made 339 arrests and issued 12,007 summonses. These drivers owe more than $12.5 million in unpaid tolls and fees.
Credit: MTA
Time's Up Environmental Organization helped start memorializing with stencils and ghost bikes. This, in turn, put pressure on the city to redesign a lot of the streets, especially around bridges and tunnels which were especially dangerous. This campaign spread nationally.
Interagency vehicle interdiction operation at the Cross Bay Veterans Memorial Bridge on Wednesday, May 8, 2024.
NYPD.
(Marc A. Hermann / MTA)
Through 25 joint enforcement operations focusing on ghost plates and persistent toll violators on bridges and in tunnels throughout New York City, MTA Bridge and Tunnel officers, NYPD officers and local law enforcement partners have impounded 1,540 vehicles, made 339 arrests and issued 12,007 summonses. These drivers owe more than $12.5 million in unpaid tolls and fees.
Credit: MTA
The new playground which opened in 2015 has roughly doubled in size and has been expanded to the upper terraces of the park. The new features include:
• The latest play equipment with swings, large climbing net, sand pit, high bridge and tunnel slide
• Insect-themed play obstacle course to encourage adventurous play
• Water pump and rock watercourse
• New electric BBQs and taps to complement the existing picnic facilities
• Comfortable seating conveniently located around the play areas
• New tree plantings adding extra shade to the impressive stand of gum trees that are a feature of the park
• Large leaf sculpture atop a 4.5m pedestal
• Well defined paths for easy access.
On October 15, 2024, The Port Authority Police, NYPD, NY State Police, NYC Sherriff, New York State Department of Motor Vehicles, MTA Police/ Tunnel and Bridge Officers/ Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Agency and New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission Police participated in an Interagency Task Force Operation at the Outerbridge Crossing in Staten Island.
Credit: PANYNJ
On October 15, 2024, The Port Authority Police, NYPD, NY State Police, NYC Sherriff, New York State Department of Motor Vehicles, MTA Police/ Tunnel and Bridge Officers/ Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Agency and New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission Police participated in an Interagency Task Force Operation at the Outerbridge Crossing in Staten Island.
Credit: PANYNJ
On October 15, 2024, The Port Authority Police, NYPD, NY State Police, NYC Sherriff, New York State Department of Motor Vehicles, MTA Police/ Tunnel and Bridge Officers/ Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Agency and New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission Police participated in an Interagency Task Force Operation at the Outerbridge Crossing in Staten Island.
Credit: PANYNJ
Interagency vehicle interdiction operation at the Cross Bay Veterans Memorial Bridge on Wednesday, May 8, 2024.
TBTA.
(Marc A. Hermann / MTA)
the oak room on egegade (oak street) in copenhagen has become one of our favorite haunts, and we were there as recently as last night. it’s always best to show up early, and it’s equally important to leave early, lest the surging masses of the bridge and tunnel crowd invade the idyll of your cocktail reverie.
the american bartenders are one of the few people in denmark who know how to make a proper drink, without the smugness that some other local bartenders are known to deliver to their inexperienced-with-cocktails clientele.
well, their bonsai are a bit starved for love.
On October 15, 2024, The Port Authority Police, NYPD, NY State Police, NYC Sherriff, New York State Department of Motor Vehicles, MTA Police/ Tunnel and Bridge Officers/ Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Agency and New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission Police participated in an Interagency Task Force Operation at the Outerbridge Crossing in Staten Island.
Credit: PANYNJ
MTA Bridges and Tunnels, NYPD, NY State Police, Port Authority NYNJ Police, NYC Sheriff, NY State Department of Motor Vehicles Interagency Taskforce conduct enforcement operations on Throgs Neck Bridge, RFK Bridge, George Washington Bridge, and Lincoln Tunnel on 4-18-24 and 4-19-24. Photo Credit: Ray Raimundi / MTA
MTA Bridges and Tunnels, NYPD, NY State Police, Port Authority NYNJ Police, NYC Sheriff, NY State Department of Motor Vehicles Interagency Taskforce conduct enforcement operations on Throgs Neck Bridge, RFK Bridge, George Washington Bridge, and Lincoln Tunnel on 4-18-24 and 4-19-24. Photo Credit: Ray Raimundi / MTA
MTA Bridges and Tunnels, NYPD, NY State Police, Port Authority NYNJ Police, NYC Sheriff, NY State Department of Motor Vehicles Interagency Taskforce conduct enforcement operations on Throgs Neck Bridge, RFK Bridge, George Washington Bridge, and Lincoln Tunnel on 4-18-24 and 4-19-24. Photo Credit: Ray Raimundi / MTA
On October 15, 2024, The Port Authority Police, NYPD, NY State Police, NYC Sherriff, New York State Department of Motor Vehicles, MTA Police/ Tunnel and Bridge Officers/ Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Agency and New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission Police participated in an Interagency Task Force Operation at the Outerbridge Crossing in Staten Island.
Credit: PANYNJ
The new playground which opened in 2015 has roughly doubled in size and has been expanded to the upper terraces of the park. The new features include:
• The latest play equipment with swings, large climbing net, sand pit, high bridge and tunnel slide
• Insect-themed play obstacle course to encourage adventurous play
• Water pump and rock watercourse
• New electric BBQs and taps to complement the existing picnic facilities
• Comfortable seating conveniently located around the play areas
• New tree plantings adding extra shade to the impressive stand of gum trees that are a feature of the park
• Large leaf sculpture atop a 4.5m pedestal
• Well defined paths for easy access.
MTA Bridges and Tunnels, NYPD, NY State Police, Port Authority NYNJ Police, NYC Sheriff, NY State Department of Motor Vehicles Interagency Taskforce conduct enforcement operations on Throgs Neck Bridge, RFK Bridge, George Washington Bridge, and Lincoln Tunnel on 4-18-24 and 4-19-24. Photo Credit: Ray Raimundi / MTA
MTA Bridges and Tunnels, NYPD, NY State Police, Port Authority NYNJ Police, NYC Sheriff, NY State Department of Motor Vehicles Interagency Taskforce conduct enforcement operations on Throgs Neck Bridge, RFK Bridge, George Washington Bridge, and Lincoln Tunnel on 4-18-24 and 4-19-24. Photo Credit: Ray Raimundi / MTA
MTA Bridges and Tunnels, NYPD, NY State Police, Port Authority NYNJ Police, NYC Sheriff, NY State Department of Motor Vehicles Interagency Taskforce conduct enforcement operations on Throgs Neck Bridge, RFK Bridge, George Washington Bridge, and Lincoln Tunnel on 4-18-24 and 4-19-24. Photo Credit: Ray Raimundi / MTA
MTA Bridges and Tunnels, NYPD, NY State Police, Port Authority NYNJ Police, NYC Sheriff, NY State Department of Motor Vehicles Interagency Taskforce conduct enforcement operations on Throgs Neck Bridge, RFK Bridge, George Washington Bridge, and Lincoln Tunnel on 4-18-24 and 4-19-24. Photo Credit: Ray Raimundi / MTA