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MTA and NYPD officers crack down on bus fare evasion

Bronx

MTA ramps up bus fare evasion crackdown to mixed reactions from New Yorkers: ‘You won’t get away with it!’

Posted on August 29, 2024

Vintage bus at Transit Museum festival

Ride into history: Transit Museum’s Vintage Bus Festival returns to Brooklyn Bridge Park next month

Posted on August 29, 2024

A man in a car

Feds charge two in scheme to swindle Uber drivers, riders and company using app called ‘Screwber’

Posted on August 28, 2024

car ev charging

City will build 600 new curbside EV chargers across city through $15 million fed grant

Posted on August 28, 2024

Mayor Adams speaking at press conference

Manhattan hit-and-run: Mayor Adams puts up $1,000 reward for info on driver who killed groom-to-be

Posted on August 28, 2024

Mayor Adams rides Citi Bike

Mayor Adams says he would ‘love’ to subsidize Citi Bike as prices soar, but still won’t commit to campaign pledge

Posted on August 27, 2024

Concept for a reimagined Park Avenue, with wider median.

Park Avenue to get safer, greener fixtures to enhance the bustling block

Posted on August 27, 2024

F train sign in Queens

Man fatally struck by F train in Queens after platform altercation: cops

Posted on August 26, 2024

A taxi passes under an unused congestion pricing gantry.

Congestion Pricing | New York lawmakers tell court Hochul has no authority to pause Manhattan toll

Posted on August 26, 2024

A train

Op-Ed | How the 2025-2029 Capital Program can help the MTA achieve its goals

Posted on August 24, 2024

Construction finished on three new elevators at 14th Street subway complex

Posted on August 22, 2024

An MTA subway conductor peers out the cab window at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in June 2020.

RETRACTED: Majority of MTA workers report facing assault or harassment on the job: survey

Posted on August 22, 2024

A straphanger gets on a 1 train on the former moving platform at South Ferry.

New Yorkers with disabilities still fighting MTA over large subway gaps

Posted on August 21, 2024

An FDNY ambulance on Parkside Avenue in Brooklyn.

Brooklyn

Teenage boy on e-bike killed in collision with truck on deadly Brooklyn avenue

Posted on August 20, 2024

EMS ambulance responds to hit-and-run in Harlem

Queens

Pedestrian killed in hit-and-run collision between two vehicles in Queens

Posted on August 20, 2024

Truck traveling on Manhattan street before congestion pricing

Applications open for NYC off-hour delivery incentive program

Posted on August 19, 2024

Gov. Hochul and Adom Mayor

Hochul hires lawyer repping Mayor Adams in campaign finance probe to defend her in congestion pricing lawsuits

Posted on August 19, 2024

An L train at Livonia Avenue in June 2022.

L train service hit with massive rush hour power failure, snarling Monday morning commute

Posted on August 19, 2024

Passengers line up to board a Megabus bus in New York City May 8, 2014.

Companies swoop in to take over former Megabus routes out of NYC

Posted on August 18, 2024

Subway service change in Queens

Man struck by 7 train in Queens in apparent suicide

Posted on August 18, 2024

The G Train

Ask the MTA | Service during the US Open, G train shut downs and ‘Commuter’s Lament’

Posted on August 17, 2024

A truck blocks the bus lane on 34th Street on Aug. 15, 2024, ironically, during a press conference on bus camera enforcement.

MTA buses to fine drivers starting next week for double parking, blocking bus stops

Posted on August 15, 2024

NJ Transit train

NJ Transit axing fares for full week following summer meltdowns

Posted on August 15, 2024

Train

Feds order MTA to improve safety for track workers following flagger’s death, uptick in ‘near-misses’

Posted on August 15, 2024

subway gate

MTA bringing on more unarmed gate guards to deter fare evasion on subway

Posted on August 14, 2024

Police vehicle in Brooklyn

Washington Heights

Woman cops plea to smashing stolen car into 5 pedestrians in Washington Heights

Posted on August 14, 2024

Fallen tree branch delays subway trains

Delays bewilder B, Q line commuters in Brooklyn after subway train strikes tree branch

Posted on August 14, 2024

Taylor Swift attends a premiere for Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour in Los Angeles, California, U.S., October 11, 2023.

Greenwich Village

NYC sells off authentic Cornelia Street signs denoting Taylor Swift’s former block

Posted on August 13, 2024

A commuter on the Amtrak platform at Penn Station.

Amtrak, NJ Transit customers should get refunds for late trains, says Congressman

Posted on August 12, 2024

Police officer near defaced ghost plates on vehicle

‘Ghost plates’ could cost NYC up to $200 million per year: report

Posted on August 12, 2024

Traffic congestion in Manhattan in June 2023.

How do MTA funding alternatives compare to congestion pricing? Not well, says a new report

Posted on August 11, 2024

A Bike rider

Two dead in Bronx after crashing motorcycle into tree

Posted on August 11, 2024

Construction crews work on the G train tracks near Court Square on Aug. 6.

Brooklyn

G train service to be restored on northern part of line as work moves south

Posted on August 8, 2024

Riders seen with and without masks at the 14th Street station at 8th Avenue in Manhattan on March 27, 2022.

Subway air quality: Study suggests Black, Hispanic, low-income New Yorkers face higher exposure to pollutants underground

Posted on August 8, 2024

An R32 Brightliner train at Brighton Beach in 2022, before one of the train's final rides pre-retirement.

R32 ‘Brightliner’ subway trains returning to the rails for 60th anniversary next month

Posted on August 7, 2024

Gov. Kathy Hochul

Hochul ‘massaging’ proposal in Albany to replace lost congestion pricing money

Posted on August 6, 2024

A Train

City Council set to approve Bronx Metro-North rezoning to build housing around new stations

Posted on August 6, 2024

Hakeem Jeffries and Janno Lieber shoveling dirt at MTA groundbreaking ceremony

Brooklyn

Hakeem Jeffries joins MTA in breaking ground on Brooklyn subway station accessibility upgrades

Posted on August 5, 2024

MTA New York City Transit Interim President Demetrius Crichlow

Op-ed | Expanding OMNY Cards to NYC’s students

Posted on August 4, 2024

A straphanger boards a Bx36 bus in the Bronx.

MTA struggles to get bus riders to pay as nearly half now skipping the fare

Posted on August 1, 2024

A Q train arrives at DeKalb Avenue in Brooklyn

Congestion pricing pause could cost MTA hundreds of millions of dollars each year, authority says

Posted on July 31, 2024

Subway train in Queens

Subway slasher who attacked MTA worker in Queens still on the lam: cops

Posted on July 31, 2024

Second Avenue Subway tunnel

Work to resume on Second Avenue Subway extension after $54M cash infusion from Hochul

Posted on July 30, 2024

MTA bus traveling in Brooklyn

MTA free bus pilot ending on Sept. 1, deemed a dud despite increased ridership

Posted on July 29, 2024

An express bus operating on a rainy street on Staten Island

Congestion pricing | MTA to nix promised express bus service increase following pause on Manhattan toll

Posted on July 28, 2024

NYC is deploying controversial gun detection tech in the subway system.

AI metal detector in subways faces potential legal challenges after NYC rolls device out

Posted on July 28, 2024

a side by side of two NYC subway tokens, "Five Boroughs" Pentagram Token on the left and a bulls eye token on the right

What happened here in New York? The token rolls out

Posted on July 26, 2024

Student MetroCards

NYC public school students will get free OMNY Cards next year instead of MetroCards – with more time and rides to use

Posted on July 25, 2024

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Brooklyn Army Terminal unveils summer series celebrating culture and community

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