The City Council approved the mayor’s plan to charge car drivers $8 and truck drivers $21 to enter Manhattan below 60th Street by a 30–20 vote on Monday. But here in Brooklyn, the vote went the opposite way.
| Yes votes (7) | Degree of flip-flop |
|---|---|
| Simcha Felder (D–Borough Park) | Major! Two weeks ago, he told The Brooklyn Paper: “Until there are more details on exactly what Brooklyn will get from money generated from congestion pricing, I cannot support this plan.” |
| Sara Gonzalez (D–Sunset Park) | Minor. Two weeks ago, her spokesman said “the final product has not been presented yet,” so the councilwoman was undecided. |
| Letitia James (D–Fort Greene) | No flip flop. The councilwoman had been “leaning yes.” |
| Domenic Recchia (D–Bensonhurst) | Unclear. The councilman said he was undecided two weeks ago. |
| Kendall Stewart (D–Flatbush) | Major! Two weeks ago, he said he would vote no because “people from New Jersey must pay, too.” And he called residential parking permits “another tax as far as I’m concerned.” |
| Al Vann (D–Bedford-Stuyvesant) | Unclear. The councilman never called us back. |
| David Yassky (D–Brooklyn Heights) | No flip flop. Yassky long favored the mayor’s plan. |
| No votes (10) | Degree of flip-flop |
| Diana Reyna (D–Bushwick) | Unclear. The councilman said he was undecided two weeks ago. |
| Charles Barron (D–Brownsville) | No flip flop. Barron long opposed the mayor’s plan as “a regressive tax on those who can afford it least.” |
| Bill DeBlasio (D–Park Slope) | Unclear. He said he was undecided, yet had a long list of reasons for opposing the plan, including a “woefully inadequate” public debate and the “effect on low-income commuters.” |
| Erik Martin Dilan (D–East NY) | No flip flop. Two weeks ago, Dilan said, “I hate congestion pricing.” |
| Mathieu Eugene (D–Crown Heights) | Unclear. Two weeks ago, he was undecided and leaning against it. |
| Lew Fidler (D–Canarsie) | No flip flop. Fidler has long opposed congestion pricing. |
| Vince Gentile (D–Bay Ridge) | No flip flop. Gentile opposed congestion pricing because it did not have “benchmarks [like] 24-hour R-train service [and] better bus service.” |
| Diane Mealy (D–East NY) | Unclear. She never called us back. |
| Michael Nelson (D–Sheepshead Bay) | No flip flop. Nelson opposed congestion pricing because he had not been shown that “it will help the environment enough to add this tax to my constituents.” |
| James Oddo (R–Dyker Heights) | No flip flop. Oddo opposed congestion pricing because the mayor never “demonstrated how it benefits” his district. |
