New York Governor Kathy Hochul urged the LIRR unions to return to the bargaining table during a press conference on Sunday morning.

MTA officials spent months last year warning that an Amtrak construction plan would spark service meltdowns at Penn Station. That prediction proved true Thursday after a fire in an East River train tunnel sparked widespread service disruptions that continued into Saturday morning.

The victim was struck by the driver of an S48 bus heading east on Forest Ave. after the man fell into the roadway near Veltman Ave. in Port Richmond around 4:20 p.m., police said.

A woman allegedly let riders through a Brooklyn subway station using a student OMNY card she found on the street several times in July 2025, according to an MTA complaint.

Officials and commuters in one part of Long Island are left wondering why there is no shuttle bus service planned for them in case of a strike.

The MTA has been hiring pricey private lawyers to defend itself against injury claims — but refuses to reveal the full scale of the outsourced multimillion-dollar legal work and total cost to taxpayers.

Starting next Monday, May 18, the MTA is quietly beefing up weekday rush-hour service on the 2, 3, 4 and 5 lines, shifting trains into the most crowded parts of the commute in a bid to give some breathing room to the roughly 1.2 million weekday riders who depend on those routes.

North America’s largest commuter rail system was shut down Saturday after unionized workers in the New York City area went on strike. The Long Island Rail Road that serves the city's eastern suburbs ceased operations early Saturday morning after five unions representing about half its workforce walked off the job.