NYC Transit

Phase 2 for the Second Avenue subway are set to begin in 2022. Andrew Siff reports.

Three additional MTA employees have been suspended and ordered to pay back stolen funds in part of an ongoing overtime theft crackdown, the investigatory arm of the transit agency announced Monday. MTA Inspector General Carolyn Pokorny released two new reports detailing the repeated abuse by three LIRR supervisors of falsifying time cards and bringing in overtime time funds for hours…

Much of the New York City subway and NJ Transit service remained suspended Friday morning following a night that saw commuters rescued from stalled trains underground and stations flooded with historic deluges from Ida. NBC New York’s team coverage.

By Thursday night, only the city’s W and E subway lines were still shut down, though partial suspensions were reported on almost a dozen lines and nearly that many had delays. NBC New York’s Jessica Cunnington reports.

The subways – which famously run 24/7 – were brought to a complete halt because of Hurricane Ida’s remnants. Jessica Cunnington reports.

At least 23 people died, including a New York City toddler, and tens of thousands were overwhelmed by floods as the remnants of Hurricane Ida devastated the tri-state area overnight with historic rainfall, at least one tornado and savage winds.

The subway system was no match for Ida. Natalie Pasquarella talks with the acting chair of the MTA about the situation.

More than 80 trains and 550 passengers were ultimately affected, including about 300 who got stranded between rail stations in the Bronx and had to be helped out.

Gov. Kathy Hochul called for a full investigation Monday into the “unprecedented confluence of events” that stranded hundreds of New York City subway riders between stations the night before and evacuated nearly a half-dozen trains as a brief power surge wreaked havoc on the MTA’s communications and signal system. More than 80 trains and 550 passengers were ultimately affected, including…

Henri may have moved eastward enough to avoid making landfall on Long Island, but the tri-state area is still dealing with plenty of repercussions from the storm, the biggest one being flooding that has made roads impassable and left people stranded in their cars. NBC New York has team coverage.

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.

An investigation found that seven MTA inspectors skipped crucial inspections and falsified reports, failing to even show up to do the inspection. NBC New York’s Myles Miller reports.

An investigation prompted by multiple incidents of debris falling from NYC subway tracks found that seven inspectors skipped mandated inspections and falsified reports, the MTA’s watchdog said Thursday. The nearly year-long probe began after multiple episodes in 2019 of debris falling from elevated subway tracks onto cars and roads below, particularly in the Sunnyside and Woodside neighborhoods of Queens. That…

It’s location is kept secret and the room itself is basically the MTA’s little Fort Knox — all the cash spent on MetroCards and on buses ends up in the money room, and NBC New York’s Andrew Siff got to take a look inside.

An exclusive look inside the MTA’s money room: A fortress-like warehouse at a secret location in Queens, where 31 bills per second can be counted — and where $35 million a week was processed before the pandemic

The MTA said the announcements will run for at least a month, and highlight the importance of mask-wearing and other coronavirus pandemic safety measures

LIRR trains are running on a weekend schedule due to Nor’Easter. NBC New York’s Katherine Creag gives us more details.

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 say a man smoking on the 7 train stabbed two other men who asked him to put his cigarette out.