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News 4 New York was granted an exclusive look inside the East Side Access project terminal that will allow LIRR riders to have shorter commutes.

The East Side Access project terminal will allow LIRR riders to have shorter commutes. Here's an exclusive look.

New York State is the kind of place that has a surprisingly bad reputation for its collossal fleet of electric rail transportation. This includes the New...

A Jan. 6 letter from the Federal Transit Administration obtained by the Daily News through a freedom of information request says the feds plan to pay $3.4 billion of the extension’s $6.3 billion cost. The move came as the FTA announced the Metropolitan Transportation Authority could begin some work on the extension and enter the federal agency’s penultimate approval phase, called “engineering.”

Developers continued to push skyline-, neighborhood-, and city-changing projects forward. A few of the buildings listed below are in the thick of construction, others are opening their doors, and all are, in some fashion, debuting in 2022.

Gov. Hochul on Tuesday toured a long-abandoned tunnel beneath Second Ave. in East Harlem that Metropolitan Transportation Authority officials plan to repurpose for the second phase of the Second Ave. subway.

The project will extend the Q line 1.6 miles from its current northern terminus, costing a rate of $3.9 billion per mile. Gov. Hochul has said the money would soon come from Biden’s infrastructure bill.

Increased rail capacity will reduce crowding on trains, subways and in Penn Station.

NEW YORK (AP) — The long-anticipated and long-delayed rail route from Long Island to Grand Central Terminal is nearing reality. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and officials from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority took a 27-minute test ride on the train Sunday morning from the Jamaica station into Grand Central.

The long-anticipated and long-delayed rail route from Long Island to Grand Central Terminal is nearing reality.