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Sarah Feinberg is leaving her role as interim president of NYC Transit, she said Thursday, with the subway boss’s promised future as chair of the MTA in limbo. Feinberg told the New York Post her last day would be Friday. She told the paper it was a good time to move on and spend more time with her family....

Transit officials say a pandemic hiring freeze has impacted staffing and led to more delays for MTA buses and subways. NBC New York’s Adam Harding reports.

A planned MTA fare hike expected for later this year has been delayed again through at least 2022, top agency officials confirmed Monday. The news follows a monthly committee meeting where Finance Chair Larry Schwartz announced, “There’s not going to be a fare hike, period.” MTA Communications Director Tim Minton told News 4 New York the city’s buses and subways…

Those who were looking for some relief from the heat earlier in the week got it in droves Thursday — and it was more than the New York City subway or many roads across the tri-state could handle.
NBC New York’s Phil Lipof reports.

Sudden and heavy downpours started hitting the NYC area Thursday afternoon, leading to frequent flash flooding that left roads impassable, and forced some subway riders to trudge through waist-high murky water at at least one station.

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The MTA parade float at the ticker-tape parade is celebrates transit’s essential workers. NBC New York’s Myles Miller reports.

The transit agency unveiled its new fleet of subway cars that they say are bigger and faster, part of a $1.4 billion project aimed at cutting down congestion. But when will they be pulling into stations? NBC New York’s Ida Siegal reports.

As MTA ridership increases, Mayor Bill de Blasio is encouraging the MTA to hire more workers. The board met today to discuss service and safety issues. NBC New York’s Erica Byfield reports.

As MTA ridership increases, Mayor Bill de Blasio says the transit system needs to hire more workers but there are many challenges that have surfaced because of the pandemic. NBC New York’s Erica Byfield reports.

Two LIRR conductors on Long Island were accused by the agency’s Inspector General of cooperating to take turns skipping work shifts while the other partner would clock in for the absent spouse. A report from the MTA’s Inspector General, which did not identify the conductors b name, details an investigation into the couple’s actions in late 2020 that resulted...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo may have thrown a huge statewide fireworks party to celebrate New York’s vaccine milestone and the end of most COVID restrictions, but some rules still apply. And in case you forget, the MTA is issuing a friendly reminder. The transit agency sent a note out Wednesday reminding New Yorkers and others that they still need to...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday that 70% of adults in New York have received at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine, a threshold he said the state would celebrate by easing many of its remaining social distancing rules and shooting off fireworks. NBC New York’s Ida Siegal reports.

Sarah Feinberg was nominated to become chair New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority this week but now her future as the first woman to head North America’s largest public transit system is unclear after lawmakers rejected Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s proposal to split up the agency’s leadership. According to the Wall Street Journal, members of the Senate and Assembly say they’re...

Three months after MTA bus driver Tommy Lau was praised by his employer for saving an elderly couple from a mugging during his lunch break, the worker says he’s behind on rent because he hasn’t been paid since he got injured. “I’m a month late on my rent,” Lau told NBC New York on Wednesday. It’s not where Lau...

The MTA says Tommy Lau’s injuries he sustained when he helped a couple during his lunch break didn’t occur during work hours nor was it work related, therefore he’s not eligible for workers’ compensation. NBC New York’s Checkey Beckford reports.

Shocking new video shows the second an MTA bus slammed into a brownstone in Brooklyn. Pei-Sze Cheng reports.

The MTA described the above surveillance video, which News 4 obtained, as “disturbing on many levels” and said in a Wednesday statement “it appears many of our basic safety rules were violated in this incident.”

Two days after an MTA bus crashed into a three-story building causing injuries to over a dozen people, a shocking surveillance video of the incident was obtained by News 4 New York. Pei-Sze Cheng reports from the scene.

An MTA bus is still stuck inside a Brooklyn brownstone a day after it crashed. Erica Byfield reports.