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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. —

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

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

It was a tableau that would have seemed unthinkable a decade ago. Stumping on 125th Street on a recent Saturday, a dozen years after two failed bids to unseat Rep. Charlie Rangel of Harlem and ten after narrowly beating his chosen successor, there stood Rep. Adriano Espaillat, flanked by Black political leaders for a rally

For an additional year, New Yorkers looking for a place to live can apply directly to vacated, affordable apartments — skipping the city’s lottery system, known as Housing Connect. Since May 2025, landlords and brokers have been able to publicly advertise empty affordable housing units — those that had been rented through the housing lottery

Days after Mayor Eric Adams took office, his hand-picked correction commissioner ousted the official overseeing thousands of backlogged use-of-force investigations inside the city jail system — a move cheered by correction officer unions that long viewed her as overly aggressive. More than four years later, that same investigator, Sarena Townsend, is returning to the Department

On a recent spring day, Prospect Lefferts Gardens shook with such force that some neighbors believed there was an earthquake, they said. The bricks of a co-op building in the Brooklyn neighborhood broke off and crashed into the courtyard, and new cracks wormed their way into some residents’ homes.  “It’s as if a train were

The Buildings Department slapped new violations on the owners of the building where three tenants died in a fire last week after inspectors found padlocks on doors leading to rooms with fire escape exits, records show. Inspectors also alleged that a rear courtyard where the fire escape leads to was obstructed by debris, blocking access

With the Long Island Rail Road on the brink of its first strike in more than 30 years, Gov. Kathy Hochul warned Wednesday that the MTA and riders on the country’s largest commuter railroad “have to be ready for whatever happens.” Leaders from the MTA and a coalition of five LIRR unions resumed labor negotiations