Metro-North Nearly Passes LIRR in Ridership Numbers
If you're feeling the squeeze on Metro-North trains, it may be because ridership on that line is creeping closer to the number one spot.
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If you're feeling the squeeze on Metro-North trains, it may be because ridership on that line is creeping closer to the number one spot.
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The Tri-State Transportation campaign says 415 pedestrians are killed in downstate New York, New Jersey and Connecticut every year.
A state report says as many as 74 percent of school districts outside NYC appear to have enough funds in reserve to pay for the historic aid cuts proposed by Gov. Cuomo.
The New York insurance company said Wednesday that it also reached a deal with the Treasury Department allowing it to keep $2 billion in proceeds from the sale of its life insurance divisions.
JPMorgan Chase, the bank where Bernard Madoff kept his clients' money, said in a court filing Tuesday that it had no legal obligation to figure out that the Ponzi king's investment scheme was a fraud.
Some of the more than 500 residents of a low-income mobile home park in Amityville, Long Island say they don't know where they'll go.
Beginning in April, customers will see an average $2.85 reduction in their monthly bill for the rest of the year, and $1.50 a month for 2012 and 2013.
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With all the snow that's fallen on New York this winter, snowblowers are a hot commodity in at least one upstate city.
Ongoing construction has made coming and going through the Holland Tunnel a bit tricky lately and come Monday it will get worse.
It's a jungle down there. Lately the Internet has been agog at the variety of varmints caught popping up on the New York City subway system.
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It was called too urban, too political, and too loud.
