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The Long Island Rail Road slowly came back back to life Tuesday, hours after a late-night labor peace pact ended a three-and-a-half-day strike on the country’s largest commuter railroad. Trains began running hourly at noon, with riders at Long Island, Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn stations able to return to their routines in the wake of […]

A federal judge in Manhattan has barred ICE from arresting most immigrants inside New York City’s three immigration courthouses.  The stay, granted by Judge Kevin Castel Monday, comes after a nearly year-long legal fight over arrests inside immigration courthouses, which became the face of ICE enforcement in New York City under the Trump administration.  While

The World Cup promises to be heated — and not just on the field. MetLife Stadium, which will host eight matches in June and July, is one of the venues most exposed to extreme heat, according to a recent study by researchers at Imperial College, London and World Weather Attribution. Stadiums in Texas and Georgia

A city investigation into allegations that correction officers at Rikers Island routinely confined severely mentally ill detainees to their cells for days or weeks at a time found the claims could not be substantiated — while also citing missing video footage and uncooperative witnesses. The Department of Investigation probe examined conditions inside a mental health

The Long Island Rail Road will resume running by noon Tuesday after the unions that forced a shutdown of the country’s largest commuter railroad for just over three days reached a labor deal with the MTA. Gov. Kathy Hochul announced the pact in a social media post late Monday, calling it a “fair deal” that

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Get ready for what could be a long slog, railroad riders. The MTA’s labor negotiator conceded Monday that hopes of a quick agreement in the Long Island Rail Road strike may have been “overly optimistic,” leaving commuters alarmed at the prospect of a prolonged shutdown. Gary Dellaverson, the transportation authority’s labor counsel, laid out the

Long Island Rail Road riders left stranded by a strike on the country’s busiest commuter railroad found themselves back on trains early Monday — just not the ones they typically ride in and out of New York City. As the walkout that began at 12:01 a.m. Saturday moved into its first weekday, the MTA turned

In the 30-plus years since she was first elected to Congress, Rep. Nydia Velázquez has had twin missions, representing New York’s 7th District and her native Puerto Rico — pushing legislation for the island’s self-determination and protesting the U.S. Navy’s presence there. With the U.S. territory’s lopsided relationship with Washington — it has a single

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