It's Monday in New York City, where the Long Island Rail Road's 275,000 daily commuters need another way to get to work.
The MTA and unions representing LIRR workers remained far from a contract agreement yesterday, prompting federal mediators to step in and summon both parties back to the table.
Meanwhile, the MTA is strongly urging commuters to work from home if they can — the limited shuttle bus service from certain LIRR stations to Queens this morning can only carry about 13,000 riders.
And any commuters opting for Ubers or Lyfts into the city can expect surge pricing on top of heavy traffic.
Democrats have only held a congressional seat in New York's North Country for five years since the Civil War. But this year, the party thinks a dairy farmer named Blake Gendebien has a shot at flipping outgoing Rep. Elise Stefanik's seat.
A new package of City Council bills is aimed at encouraging dog owners to clean up their pets' poop.
Environmentalists are asking a federal court to order stronger pollution standards for trash incinerators — which they say would be critical to protecting public health in Newark and elsewhere.
Despite the highly publicized hantavirus outbreak on a foreign cruise ship and a suspected new infection in the Finger Lakes region, infectious disease experts say the concern for most New Yorkers should be very low.
Two pedestrians died and several others were being treated for injuries after a man lost control of his car during an alleged drunk-driving incident on the Upper West Side last Friday.
A bill in Albany that would require the MTA board to have a seat designated for someone from Staten Island (and each other borough) has stalled, for now.
The rollout of a new luxury Swatch pocket watch led to total mayhem at stores in Manhattan and on Long Island.
A 33-year-old woman gave birth to a baby boyon a Brooklyn courtroom bench last Friday while waiting to be arraigned on a drug charge.
Timothy Pearson, a former senior aide to Mayor Eric Adams who's facing four lawsuits accusing him of sexual harassment and retaliation, wants the city to resume paying for his legal representation after the Mamdani administration cut him off.
Amtrak officials last week said a track fire damaged equipment in two of its tunnels, forcing both of them to close. With another tunnel already completely shut for Sandy-related repairs, that left just one river crossing to carry trains through North America's busiest rail interlockings.
In Yuskavage's new exhibit at the David Zwirner Gallery, many of her signature images of women and girls are painted as small portraits-in-progress on her easel.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani rode into City Hall this year on a promise to make buses “fast and free.” But MTA Chair Janno Lieber, who controls the city’s transit system, is expanding a program that slows some buses down in order to ensure everyone on board paid the $3 fare.
Macy’s said its annual pyrotechnic show is expanding to the lower East River in the Seaport District and the lower Hudson River in collaboration with Jersey City.
