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Fair fares subway transit turnstile

Fair Fares: City Council, advocates want more New Yorkers made eligible for transit discounts

Posted on November 19, 2024

A congestion pricing toll gantry in Manhattan

MTA Board formally approves reduced, $9 congestion pricing toll, set to start on Jan. 5

Posted on November 18, 2024

Subway surfers playing a dangerous game in New York

Subway surfing: NYC Council, MTA and NYPD look for ways to stop dangerous trend among young New Yorkers

Posted on November 18, 2024

A train bound for Rockaway

Rockaway residents face wave of anxiety over upcoming A train shutdown

Posted on November 17, 2024

MTA Chair Janno Lieber

Op-ed | Transit improvements start now with congestion pricing back on track

Posted on November 17, 2024

suspect wearing a black hat and black shirt who allegedly burglarized a shop in Grand Central Terminal

Grand Central chocolate shop burglarized, causing $29K in damages: cops

Posted on November 15, 2024

A taxi passes under an unused congestion pricing gantry.

Congestion pricing officially revived after five-month pause, at a 40% discount, Hochul says

Posted on November 14, 2024

Van Ritshie, voice of the LIRR and Metro-North

Van Ritshie, voice of LIRR and Metro-North announcements, dies at 80

Posted on November 13, 2024

Congestion pricing gantry during rush hour traffic in Manhattan

Congestion pricing | Hochul looks to roll out reduced Manhattan toll plan as GOP looks to Trump to stop it

Posted on November 13, 2024

A brush fire in the Bronx forced the cancellation of Amtrak service Tuesday afternoon between Penn Station and New Haven.

Amtrak service halted between Penn Station, New Haven after Bronx track fire

Posted on November 12, 2024

Uber and Lyft drivers in Lower Manhattan.

Uber threatens cutting off drivers if NYC increases minimum pay

Posted on November 11, 2024

MTA transit worker

A note to our readers on our previous NYU transit worker study report

Posted on November 10, 2024

Congestion pricing cameras in Manhattan in March 2024.

Hochul mulling revival of congestion pricing as Trump’s second term looms, reports say

Posted on November 10, 2024

Several passengers on board a Queens bus were injured when the driver suffered a medical episode and lost control of the vehicle, which crashed into a number of parked vehicles, authorities said.

Queens

Queens bus crashes into parked cars, injures riders after driver suffers medical episode

Posted on November 10, 2024

Grand Central Terminal

Ask the MTA | Grand Central Terminal plans, and subway artwork

Posted on November 9, 2024

Grand Central Train Shed

MTA hopes to spend $1.7B rehabbing unsteady structure holding up Grand Central

Posted on November 7, 2024

Jay Street and Tillary Street, the site of the moped crash

Brooklyn

Senior man on moped killed by coach bus in Downtown Brooklyn

Posted on November 7, 2024

Gov. Kathy Hochul and Attorney General Letitia James speak about congestion pricing and second Trump administration

Advocates push Hochul to start congestion pricing before Trump takes over

Posted on November 6, 2024

people walking across a crosswalk

Paving the way: AARP New York launching hands-on sidewalk survey to improve pedestrian safety in NYC

Posted on November 6, 2024

MTA honors one billionth subway rider in 2024

NYC Subway hits 1 billion riders in 2024, on track for a post-pandemic record pace

Posted on November 4, 2024

A train crossing into Rockaway

A trains won’t run to Rockaways for 4 months in 2025 due to infrastructure work

Posted on November 3, 2024

A New Jersey-bound PATH train enters 14th Street station.

Hoboken PATH station to close for most of February for rehab

Posted on November 3, 2024

The MTA's new paratransit assessment center in lower Manhattan.

New Access-a-Ride intake center opens in Manhattan to screen local applicants for paratransit service

Posted on October 31, 2024

A women crossing street

NYC officially decriminalizes jaywalking, ending a 66-year ban that was scarcely enforced

Posted on October 31, 2024

Man using open MTA turnstiles

MTA running behind on pilot program for turnstiles of the future

Posted on October 30, 2024

MTA tunnel for IBX light rail

MTA looking to dig tunnel underneath Queens cemetery for IBX light rail project

Posted on October 29, 2024

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Bronx Times

MTA officials tout ridership gains but highlight fare evasion concerns, Bronx Metro-North project delays

A rainbow over 72nd Street on the Upper West Side.

Upper West Side

New ‘Smart Curb’ program on Upper West Side aims to better use street-edge spaces for bikes, trucks and more

Posted on October 28, 2024

person wearing light colored clothes and a mask on a Bronx bus

Bronx

Boy in Bronx sucker-punched, stabbed by mask-wearing perp on bus: cops

Posted on October 28, 2024

A family gets on the 1917 Lo-V train at the old South Ferry station on Oct. 27, 2024, the 120th birthday of the subway.

Happy 120th birthday to the NYC Subway! Nostalgic trip celebrates a milestone underground

Posted on October 27, 2024

MTA NYC Transit President Demetrius Crichlow

Op-ed | NYC Transit president reaffirms commitment to better service

Posted on October 27, 2024

The subway globe

A token to ride: Relics you can still find after 120 years of the subway system

Posted on October 27, 2024

AI subway weapon scanners

AI-powered subway weapons scanners found no guns during summer pilot program

Posted on October 24, 2024

NYPD Chief of Transit Bureau sworn in

NYPD names Joseph Gulotta new chief of Transit Bureau

Posted on October 24, 2024

Uber driver protests

Hundreds of Uber, Lyft drivers block Manhattan traffic to protest lockouts by apps

Posted on October 23, 2024

MTA New York City Transit President Demetrius Crichlow

Demetrius Crichlow becomes permanent head of NYC Transit, pledges to stick around for long haul

Posted on October 23, 2024

Gov. Kathy Hochul signs red light camera law, hands pen to transportation commmissioner

NYC to get historic increase in red light cameras around the 5 boroughs

Posted on October 23, 2024

MTA transit worker shows off ad campaign poster

MTA launches ad campaign to showcase workers of transit labor force following train operator’s stabbing

Posted on October 23, 2024

Queens Midtown Tunnel traffic

All tied up: NYC auto traffic at record highs as MTA transit ridership continues to lag pre-COVID, report finds

Posted on October 23, 2024

Bus on Fordham Road in the Bronx

Bronx

Hundreds of Bronx, Manhattan bus riders sign letter to Mayor Adams demanding Fordham Road busway

Posted on October 21, 2024

The MTA has added benches at Grand Central Madison after complaints that the gleaming new terminal had nowhere to sit.

MTA adds new seating for LIRR riders at Grand Central Madison — with a time limit

Posted on October 21, 2024

Daniel Penny arriving in Manhattan court

Daniel Penny set to stand trial this week for chokehold death of subway performer Jordan Neely

Posted on October 20, 2024

New York City Subway 120th birthday exhibit at New York City Transit Museum

New Transit Museum exhibit celebrates 120 years of what the subway ‘is’

Posted on October 20, 2024

MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber speaks at press conference

Op-Ed | MTA breaking post-pandemic ridership records this postseason

Posted on October 19, 2024

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Wider sidewalks, less room for vehicles on ‘transformed’ Fifth Avenue in Mayor Adams’ vision for Manhattan artery

Posted on October 17, 2024

The Cross Bronx Expressway near Jerome Avenue.

Bronx

City advancing proposals to cap parts of Cross Bronx Expressway, add greenspace along the way

Posted on October 16, 2024

Zabar's bagels as part of subway promotion

Upper West Side

MTA, Zabar’s team up for joint birthday celebration with $1.20 bagels

Posted on October 15, 2024

A teen subway surfs on a J train heading into Brooklyn in 2022.

Subway surfing arrests up this year amid crackdown, awareness campaign: NYPD

Posted on October 15, 2024

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City of Faith Church of God hosting food distributions every Tuesday in August

Cops are looking for this suspect for allegedly breaking into restaurants in Astoria and Dutch Kills using a folding stool to climb through windows.

Burglar sought for allegedly breaking into four Astoria restaurants in just over a week: NYPD

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The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene's offices in Long Island City, Queens.

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