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Subway Ridership Exceeds 2 Million Straphangers In Single Day, A First Since Pandemic Began arrow A 2 train on April 9, 2021 Marc A. Hermann / MTA As more people get vaccinated and parts of the economy reopen, subway riders continue to return to the subway system. For the first time since the pandemic started, more than 2 million people rode the subway on April 8th. "Seeing more and more riders return to the subway system gives everyone in New York a sense of optimism, and hope—it's a return to normalcy," Sarah Feinberg, interim president of NYC Transit, said on Frid...

How Far Along Is New York City in Its Reopening This Spring? A moviegoer enters the AMC Lincoln Square 13 movie theater on March 5. Photo: Noam Galai/WireImage Last year, all of New York followed a highly regulated outline that slowly reopened the state from the full shutdown implemented at the beginning of the pandemic. But with the closures this winter varying across the state, the return to a (new) normal this year is being executed on a local basis. Below, a guide to the process as it unfolds in New York City. Mayor de Blasio announces retur...

MTA Mask Force distributing 60,000 child-sized face masks Updated 2:48 PM; Today 2:48 PM MTA Mask Force volunteers handing out masks for adults and children on Monday, April 5, 2021. (Marc A. Hermann / MTA New York City Transit)MTA New York City Transit Facebook Share STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The MTA’s Mask Force is now tackling the city’s youngest mass transit riders. On Monday, the agency’s mask-distributing task force began the distribution of 60,000 child-sized masks during a pop-up event in the Bronx featuring MTA Chairman and CEO Patrick Foye, MTA Chief Accessibility Officer Quemu...

For immediate release: March 02, 2021 Subscribe PHILADELPHIA – The Philadelphia Department of Public Health (PDPH) and Philadelphia Office of Emergency Management (OEM), in partnership with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency (PEMA) have opened the Center City Vaccination Center, located at the Pennsylvania Convention Center (PCC), on Wednesday, March 3, 2021. The site has the capacity to vaccinate up to 6,000 Philadelphians per day and will prioritize eligible residents from Phases 1a and 1b that have signed up on the Philadelphia COV...

WHYY By Passengers wait to board the Market-Frankford line at City Hall. (Emma Lee/WHYY) The soft approach sets the authority apart from other transit agencies in the region. Riders on New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey can face $50 fines for flouting their mask policies. On Amtrak, such passengers are subject to federal penalties, can be denied boarding or be removed, and potentially banned from future travel. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s mask mandate that went into effect Tuesday authorizes transit opera...