LIRR Project To Cause Major Service Disruptions
Officials issued a warning to Long Island Rail Road customers Thursday, urging riders to avoid riding the trains at all costs over two upcoming weekends due to severe service disruptions.
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Officials issued a warning to Long Island Rail Road customers Thursday, urging riders to avoid riding the trains at all costs over two upcoming weekends due to severe service disruptions.
New York's top elected officials took sledgehammers to a fake brick wall in a symbolic groundbreaking Monday for the long-delayed expansion of Penn Station.
A knife-wielding man, with a long rap sheet, was shot by police after trying to rob a Chase Bank located near entrances to Madison Square Garden and Penn Station, authorities said.
The increased military along Amtrak routes has mixed reactions among commuters at New York Penn Station.
The Aug. 23 fire triggered a week of problems at the Jamaica transit hub.
Two locomotives outside the East River tunnels have been removed by the LIRR, for a savings of more than $230,000 a year.
As many as 500 cameras have been placed in nearly every corner of three of the busiest transit hubs in New York City – in the stairwells and on the platform.
The Long Island Rail Road has resumed service to and from Penn Station through Jamaica Friday morning.
Thursday night's storm spelled out commuter chaos, hitting during the evening rush hour and sending a ripple effect that had thousands of people still trying to get home hours later.
You'd think after last year's swine flu pandemic everyone would be washing their hands frequently, especially after using a public bathroom. Well, a dirty secret has been revealed.
NJ Transit has set aside the first and last cars of Northeast Corridor express trains as "quiet cars" between Penn Station New York, Princeton Junction, Hamilton, and Trenton.
A track fire on Sunday night is causing problems on some lines of the Long Island Railroad. Service Kew Gardens and Forest Hills from Penn Station has been affected.
Holiday weekend travel was back to normal Saturday.
Problems from a switching tower fire on Monday have stretched through the work week, and there's word that almost every LIRR line will be impacted well into the weekend.
Service on all Long Island Rail Road lines resumed with limited service Monday evening, but delays are expected for Tuesday's AM and PM commutes.
