Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers are bracing for the first weekday without Long Island Rail Road service after a strike shut down the country’s largest commuter railroad for the first time in more than three decades. More than 3,500 LIRR employees will enter a third day off the job Monday as representatives from five […]

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As would-be Long Island Rail Road riders scrambled to make it out of Manhattan just after midnight Saturday, MTA police officers waited to deliver bad news at the bottom of the towering escalators inside Grand Central Madison. Close to 3,500 workers on the country’s largest commuter railroad went out on strike at 12:01 a.m. — […]

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When Eric Adams was still mayor, the city agreed to pay the lawyers representing senior aide Timothy Pearson in four lawsuits alleging sexual harassment and retaliation. Soon after Adams left City Hall, Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration abruptly reversed course, moving to cut off all city funding of Pearson’s defense. By then, the law firm Wilson […]

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The MTA’s hopes of offering limited Metro-North service at new stations in the East Bronx as soon as next year appear to be dwindling, officials confirmed Friday. The regional transportation authority had floated the alternative last October as part of a plan to jump start Penn Station Access, the $2.9 billion megaproject to eventually extend […]

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