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Subway service was suspended in Manhattan on the 2/3 line Saturday afternoon when police say a naked man attacked two people at a staton before suffering from a fatal injury. Authorities say the naked man grabbed the third rail, electrocuting himself, after engaging with the victims on the tracks of a subway line. The incident started just after 3:30 p.m….

Authorities say a naked man grabbed the third rail, electrocuting himself, after attacking several riders on the tracks of a subway line. NBC New York’s Anjali Hemphill reports.

The driver of a New York City bus that plunged off a bridge blamed the dramatic crash on mechanical failure, saying Saturday that the tandem vehicle “just took off” as he slowed into a turn. Everton Beccan, 55, disputed the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s assertion a day earlier that he had refused to submit to a drug and alcohol test at the...

The 55-year-old driver of the bus was suspended without pay pending a full investigation of Thursday’s crash over a Bronx overpass, MTA officials said. NBC New York’s Anjali Hemphill reports.

MTA officials say speed was likely a contributing factor that sent a New York City accordion-style bus off the road and dangling off an overpass, injuring the bus driver and several passengers. The 55-year-old driver of the bus, not yet identified by officials, has been suspended without pay pending a full investigation of the incident, MTA officials told NBC New…

At least eight people were injured after a New York City accordion-style bus veered off the road and half of it dangled off an overpass. Myles Miller has the latest.

At least eight people were injured after a New York City accordion-style bus veered off the road and half of it dangled off an overpass. NBC New York’s Katherine Creag reports.

William Pepe, a MTA worker, was charged for his role in the capitol siege. WNBC’s Mark Santia discovers more.

A report by the Office of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority Inspector General is calling on the transit corporation to immediately test employees for alcohol following serious accidents after an audit found that the majority of tests were administered too late. The MTA Inspector General’s report released Tuesday said that 90% of MTA bus employees were tested for alcohol more than…

Police are looking for a man who slapped an MTA worker in the face after she chided him for urinating and smoking on a subway platform in the Bronx. The on-duty employee asked the man to stop his behavior inside the Hunts Point Avenue 6 train station around 10 a.m. on New Year’s Eve, police said. Shortly thereafter, he exited…

Surveillance footage captures the slap as the man exits the turnstile. The MTA worker then turns around and waves her arms at the man, apparently trying to smack him with something in her hand.

In the Bronx, an MTA bus driver says a good Samaritan saved her life when she was attacked.

2021 offers hope for a rebound: a new administration considered more friendly to public transit needs; vaccines that will slow the virus’ spread and help bring back commuters; federal stimulus dollars to blunt some of the pandemic’s effects and advances in major infrastructure projects

With new technology rollouts, the MTA will now have positive train control that will reduce accidents, Pei-Sze Cheng reports.

The MTA dedicated a subway station on Monday in honor of a train conductor killed in March after saving passengers from a train fire. NBC New York’s Adam Kuperstein reports.

New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority has approved a budget that doesn’t include threatened service cuts and fare hikes, though officials say those options remain a possibility

With the Metropolitan Transportation Authority facing a budget crisis, New Yorkers may have to dig into their pockets to help out. Under a new proposed bill, New York City residents would be required to pay a $3 surcharge on packages they ordered online, with the exception for medicine and food. Assemblyman Robert Carroll, who proposed the bill, says the online…

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Critics say the latest bust is just the tip of the iceberg of corruption at the MTA, with five current and former MTA workers arrested by the FBI after allegedly submitting thousands of hours in bogus overtime. NBC New York’s Jonathan Dienst reports.