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By Shane O'Brien State Sen. Kristen Gonzalez and representatives from the office of Assembly Member and Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran ...
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The Staten Island Railway is experiencing delays Thursday morning, according to an alert issued by the ...
According to MTA officials, the project was made possible by support from the Federal Transit Administration, which helped to coordinate and avoid four weekends of shutdowns at the station and saved ...
Two new elevators opened at the Bay Ridge-95th Street subway station, on July 8, making it accessible for all commuters for ...
A popular Bay Ridge subway station is officially fully ADA-accessible, marking a significant milestone for transit equity in southern Brooklyn, MTA officials said on Tuesday.  The MTA, along with ...
Alstom has secured a contract valued at €2bn ($2.3bn) to supply 316 commuter rail cars to the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) and Metro-North Railroad, divisions of the New York Metropolitan ...
In January 2018, the MTA awarded a contract to Kawasaki Rail Car Inc. to design, build and deliver 535 cars, comprised of 440 R211As and 20 R211Ts for NYCT, and 75 R211S cars for Staten Island Railway ...
MTA chair and CEO Janno Lieber said: “This latest purchase will help us get the next generation of rolling stock on the rails sooner so we can keep making the system more reliable and dramatically ...
The FDNY responded to reports of a water main break underneath the Clifton Staten Island Railway Station at Greenfield Avenue and Bay Street on Tuesday night.
Staten Island’s long-suffering commuters were languishing in dilapidated 50-year-old train cars, the oldest in the system, until Oct. 8, when the first batch of sleek, modern R211 train cars ...
The subway’s forgotten borough entered the 21st century Tuesday, as the first set of new R-211 train cars entered passenger service on the Staten Island Railway. The cars — a variant of the R ...
The MTA on Tuesday rolled out new train cars on the Staten Island Railway for the first time in 50 years. Transit officials christened the new cars — called R211s — during an inaugural ride ...