Broadway tickets are incredibly expensive; eating out and parking have always been part of the calculation. “If you’re having a night out with the family for $1,000, I don’t think the congestion toll is going to be the decision maker,’’ she said. Some of the concern around the economic reverberations of congestion pricing stems from the presumption it will cost $23 to come into the designated zone during peak hours. about what the pricing — and exemptions from pricing — will be across constituencies. As Carl Weisbrod, the chairman of the board, put it, sorting this all out was like “a Rubik’s Cube.”

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Persons: Tyler Cowan, Patti Smith, Robert Mapplethorpe, ” Kathryn Wylde, ’ ’, Juliette Michaelson, Carl Weisbrod, ” Organizations: Partnership, New, Times, Traffic Locations: Washington, Manhattan, New Jersey, Queens, New York City