NYC’s Car Capital Stung by High Gas Prices, GOP Lawmaker Says

Motorists in Staten Island, the borough with the highest percentage of car ownership in New York City, are getting hit by soaring gas prices resulting from the US war in Iran, Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis said.

The average retail gasoline price was about $4.15 a gallon nationally and in New York as of Friday, according to AAA, up more than a dollar from before the war began. Malliotakis said the increase would likely prove to be temporary, but that prices “need to come down” before the US midterm elections in November.

Representative Nicole Malliotakis, a Republican from New York, during an interview in New York on Friday.

Photographer: Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg

Malliotakis said prices should fall once shipping through the ...