City Council candidate and Ozone Park resident Felicia Singh rallied with her family at Gracie Mansion Tuesday just hours after Mayor Bill de Blasio announced his taxi medallion owner-driver fund plan.
The fund will offer debt relief to taxi medallion owners-drivers who have been drowning in debt, with several Queens immigrants resorting to suicide since the market collapsed in 2019.
“Medallion owners have been hit hard by this pandemic. They deserve all the support we can give them as ridership recovers,” de Blasio said during his morning briefing. “This program creates a pathway to solvency and supports the yellow medallion taxi industry’s important role in building a recovery for us all.”
