Moreover, bus boss Frank Annicaro will go away his function in Could, sources stated, and head to Albany to steer that metropolis’s Capital District Transportation Authority as CEO. The MTA’s present operations planning chief, Chris Pangilinan, will function the senior vice chairman of buses in an performing capability till a everlasting successor for Annicaro is chosen.
The MTA can be hiring Bernard Jackson, previously of Dallas Space Speedy Transit, to function NYCT’s chief working officer — successfully, Crichlow’s quantity two.
MTA President Demetrius Crichlow. (Shawn Inglima for New York Day by day Information)
Jackson began his transit profession as a bus driver in Chicago, earlier than rising by way of the ranks to supervise each bus and subway operations within the Windy Metropolis over the course of virtually three many years. Jackson then went to the Los Angeles Metro earlier than overseeing operations in Dallas.
Amarosa, the brand new vice chairman of subways, is a Queens native. A lifelong subway buff, he interned with NYCT in highschool, and earned a nod from the Guinness Guide of World Information in 2007 for touring by way of the entire system’s stations within the least period of time.
Amarosa joined the MTA in 2008 and spent years conducting in-house information evaluation on the subway and bus traces. He grew to become the vice chairman of operations assist for the Division of Subways in 2022, and has been serving as performing head of subways since December 2024.
Pangilinan, who will run buses till a everlasting chief is appointed, rose to his present planning function in 2024 after heading MTA Paratransit for 2 years. He has additionally labored for San Francisco Muni — San Francisco’s transit community — the U.S. Division of Transportation and rideshare large Uber.
Cohen, now the vice chairman of paratransit, was on condition that accountability in an performing capability after Pangilinan’s promotion in 2024. She joined New York Metropolis Transit in 2018 following a stint on the metropolis’s Taxi and Limousine Fee.
Cohen’s and Amarosa’s promotions are anticipated to be efficient by the top of the week. Jackson is predicted to begin in early Could.
