LIRR

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.

Two-way service between Elmont and UBS Arena, home of the New York Islanders, is now running on the Long Island Rail Road.

Two-way service to Elmont-UBS Arena is now running on the LIRR.

Low-income families in Connecticut will get help with heat for their homes this winter.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority declared the Long Island Rail Road’s major Third Track project complete.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul joined Long Island Rail Road commuters on Tuesday to announce the construction milestone for modernizing Penn Station.

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.

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.

Nassau residents rally about an LIRR schedule change.

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.