Lost in the debate between Amtrak, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, and transportation advocates over the plans to close Amtrak’s ...

Amtrak is moving full speed ahead with tunnel closures in the city on Friday — despite pleas from Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor ...

The MTA fired back at Amtrak on Thursday after the federal rail network held a media tour of an East River tunnel to explain why it believes a full shutdown of a rail tube is necessary during a ...

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- Amtrak is about to begin massive repairs on two of the four East River train tunnels that were heavily damaged by Superstorm Sandy ... LIRR trains out of Penn Station ...

Every day, around 460 Long Island Rail Road trains and the majority of the LIRR’s 250,000 daily riders pass through one of the four tubes under the East River connecting Penn Station to Queens ...

In addition to LIRR and Amtrak trains, the disruption could also impact NJ Transit trains that run out of Penn Station. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority ...

Mayor Eric Adams joined the growing chorus of elected leaders Tuesday calling on Amtrak to halt its plans to close a quarter of the East River Tunnel’s rail tubes for repairs — a project Democrats and ...

Long Island Rail Road service could suffer for years as Amtrak repairs two damaged East River tunnels that connect Penn Station to Queens, MTA officials warned on Wednesday. The transit agency’s ...

Amtrak will cut service between Penn Station to Albany for East River ... which was damaged during Hurricane Sandy in 2012. “It’s the same as doing roadwork. If they do it during the day ...

The LIRR entrance at Penn Station. (Gov. Kathy Hochul’s Office ... Today’s Penn Station has no room for any more than those existing 21 tracks and platforms. Hurricane Sandy did serious damage to the ...

Lorraine Diehl never took a train out of the original Penn Station, but she spent plenty ... compromised by Hurricane Sandy, are in need of repair. (Efforts to increase the number of tunnels ...

Two of the tunnel’s four tubes were subject to flooding by Superstorm Sandy in 2012 resulting ... included in the original contract. LIRR inside Penn Station (Shutterstock) To preserve existing ...