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The first Long Island Rail Road train into Manhattan’s East Side ran Wednesday. The $11 billion East Side Access project was decades in the making.
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Two-way service between Elmont and UBS Arena, home of the New York Islanders, is now running on the Long Island Rail Road.
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Two-way service to Elmont-UBS Arena is now running on the LIRR.
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Low-income families in Connecticut will get help with heat for their homes this winter.
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New York Governor Kathy Hochul and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority declared the Long Island Rail Road’s major Third Track project complete.
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New York Governor Kathy Hochul joined Long Island Rail Road commuters on Tuesday to announce the construction milestone for modernizing Penn Station.
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The first section of track includes Queens Village to Merillon Avenue in Garden City. The second section, with service to Carle Place, is scheduled to open on Aug. 29.
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A feasibility study found the LIRR project would be too expensive and inconvenient to implement. Retrofitting the current cars with batteries would cost $26 million a pair. That’s more than it would cost to buy two brand new train cars.
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Nassau residents rally about an LIRR schedule change.
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Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman joined the Town of North Hempstead to demand that the Long Island Rail Road keep its express train service on the Port Washington branch.