Andrew Siff

All New Jersey Transit’s Morris & Essex Midtown Direct trains to Penn Station will be diverted to Hoboken during the weekslong overhaul at Penn Station this summer, Gov. Chris Christie announced Tuesday.

Carolyn Maloney, a veteran House Democrat from New York City, will for now take over the House committee that the late Rep. Elijah Cummings chaired,to a senior Democratic leadership aide told the Associated Press.

Rep. Carolyn Maloney was taken to a hospital after suffering an apparent medical episode and briefly fainting at an event in Manhattan Monday.

The number of homeless people living in the subways up more than 20 percent from last year – bringing the total to 2,178 individuals, according to a report released by the MTA task force in conjunction with the state-led Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance.

The MTA has approved its historic $51.5 billion capital spending proposal for 2020-2024. Board members in attendance Wednesday voted unanimously.

The focus of the new $51 billion plan is on speeding up the subways, buying new city buses and expanding access to LIRR and Metro-North. NBC New York’s Andrew Siff reports.

A police officer was shot in the wrist when she responded to a domestic violence call on Staten Island Tuesday, but she is expected to be OK, authorities said.

The MTA announced a proposed $51.5 billion capital spending plan for 2020-2024, marking a 70 percent increase over its previous four-year plan and its largest one ever by far, as part of an aggressive effort to repair the agency’s aging infrastructure and accelerate service enhancements for the millions of New Yorkers who use its public transit system on a daily basis.

The plan, 72 percent of which is for New York City Transit, includes elevator upgrades at 70 more stations, a new extension to the Second Avenue subway into East Harlem and new signal technology for the Lexington Avenue line. NBC New York’s Andrew Siff reports.

The NYPD is sending a clear message to its 36,000 rank-and-file officers following a tumultuous week: We’ve got your back.

The NYPD is sending a clear message to its 36,000 rank-and-file officers following a tumultuous week: We’ve got your back. Here’s the full message from Chief of Department Terence Monahan to the police force Thursday.

NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill has fired the police officer accused of using a banned chokehold on Eric Garner in 2014, siding with the departmental trial judge who recommended termination earlier this month.

On the same day the Trump administration announced a new rule that children in federal detention facilities can be held indefinitely, instead of only 20 days, local politicians toured a New Jersey detention facility.

Congress members from New York and New Jersey on Wednesday toured an ICE detention facility in Elizabeth. Andrew Siff reports.

NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill has fired the police officer accused of using a banned chokehold on Eric Garner in 2014, siding with the departmental trial judge who recommended termination earlier this month. O’Neill’s decision, revealed early Monday afternoon, is final, closing the years-long book on embattled NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo, whom a local grand jury and federal prosecuters all declined...

Here are the complete remarks from NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill announcing the firing of officer Daniel Pantaleo in the 2014 death of Eric Garner.

NYPD Comissioner Jame O’Neill fires police officer accused of using banned chokehold in 2014 death of Eric Garner.

The MTA has been in the red for months — with a deficit of half a billion dollars –- and that led to some heated words Friday at a meeting and some bad news: a reduction in service.