MTA Worker Suffers Broken Jaw After Being Punched In The Face On The Job
MTA workers are part of the essential workforce that's keeping the city running and making sure first responders and health care workers can travel to the frontlines.
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MTA workers are part of the essential workforce that's keeping the city running and making sure first responders and health care workers can travel to the frontlines.
Anyone with a temperature of 100.4 degrees of higher is being sent home.
MTA officials said flames erupted on one of the cars of a northbound 2 train as it pulled into the 110th Street-Central Park North station.
The homeless are packing New York City subways again, raising health concerns amid a chorus of demands that Mayor Bill de Blasio do something.
The coronavirus pandemic is taking a toll on New York City's first responders and their health.
Train operator Garrett Goble, 36, was killed in the fire.
The agency says Foye learned his diagnosis Saturday and is currently isolating at home.
The MTA is now offering a reward of up to $50,000 for information leading to catching the person responsible for a deadly subway fire early Friday morning in Harlem.
Flames broke out shortly after 3 a.m. in the second car of a northbound 2 train near the 110th Street and Central Park North station.
Bus driver Oliver Cyrus, 61, and 4conductor Peter Petrassi, 49, died Thursday.
Under Gov. Andrew Cuomo's "New York State on PAUSE" order, New Yorkers should only use public transportation when absolutely necessary.
"The reason for that is to reduce contact between passengers and bus operators to make sure that as many transit workers, subway, bus, Metro-North, Long Island Rail Road, can show up for work and take first responders to and from their jobs," MTA Chairman and CEO Pat Foye said.
Most New Yorkers depend on the subway to get to work, school and complete daily tasks, but in some parts of the city disabled residents have limited or no access.
"If you can get around without riding the subway, do it. If telecommuting is an option, do it," said MTA chairman Pat Foye.
The former Obama transportation officials has been serving on the MTA board since last year and is said to have a close relationship with Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
"To me, it's actually dangerous, also, that people who are not professionally qualified should give direction on operational matters," Byford said.
Quarantine is one strategy to prevent the coronavirus from spreading.
The NYPD is looking for a suspect in an attack on a subway conductor in Brooklyn. The assault left the transit worker seriously hurt, and also disrupted service.
CBS2 has been told the 36-year-old MTA employee has been in and out of consciousness at the hospital.
Cuomo announced the wife, son and daughter of an infected New Rochelle man have also tested positive, along with a neighbor who drove the man to the hospital.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo said it's a 50-year-old man who lives in New Rochelle and works in Manhattan.
Transit officials said this new protocol ensures the full fleet will be sanitized every 72 hours, all to prevent the disease from spreading.
Police said the 54-year-old driver had exited his Bx 27 bus to check on a school bus that was blocking the road.
The incident happened in Boerum Hill in Brooklyn, and now the MTA is investigating.
They have already disassembled the crib, but still have not made the time to properly let go of their stillborn son's ashes.
