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New York commuters know that using public transportation can be brutal during the summer months. This past July was the 10th hottest one that New York City has had in over 150 years. News 4 New York had the chance to talk with Dr. Margarita Rohr from NYU Langone to gather her tips on how New Yorkers can remain cool…

Margarita Rohr, M.D., Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at NYU Langone Health, gave News 4 New York her tips on staying cool during a subway commute. (Produced by Liz McCarthy)

Subway riders in Manhattan got a lunchtime scare at one of the borough’s busier stations Friday afternoon, with smoke seen pouring from the tunnel at Lexington Avenue after the train hit some object on the tracks, according to the MTA. It wasn’t clear what the northbound 6 train hit as it pulled into 51st Street around 12:45 p.m., but...

No injuries were reported.

Working from home is one thing, but working from a subway train? For many commuters this can only happen when you’ve got cell service. For now this is impossible when the train goes into the tunnel, but this will change. The MTA is committing to underground cell service — not only in the platforms, but in the tunnels. With a…

Video posted to the Citizen app showed MTA workers at the scene.

A man who caught fire after falling onto the subway tracks at Port Authority Bus Terminal and contacting the electrified third rail Thursday has died, authorities say. According to police, the man somehow fell onto the southbound A line track at the 42nd Street hub around 8 a.m., at the height of the morning rush at one of the...

The number of reports about cars soiled by urine, waste and other fluids is this year on pace to hit its highest levels since 2019 — even as ridership hovers at around 60% of pre-pandemic levels, according to the most recent data from the transit agency.

At a news conference on Friday, NYC Mayor Eric Adams was asked about the cleanliness of the city and he said he doesn’t smell any garbage…just marijuana.

A man allegedly fleeing a traffic stop lead police on a wild chase in Brooklyn, and Twitter user @nuffsaidNY captured some of the chaos.

Some couldn’t help but break into applause, though the NYPD is most certainly not amused.

It’s just the latest in a series of random attacks that have plagued the subway system in recent months.

A 20-year-old woman died after apparently falling to the subway tracks at Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan late Tuesday, police say. It’s not yet clear what happened, but police say the woman toppled to the tracks on the southbound 7 train platform just before a train pulled in around 10:40 p.m. She was hit, and pronounced dead at the scene,…

An investigation is underway after a woman was struck and killed by a train at Grand Central Terminal Tuesday night.

Police are looking for a man they say walked up to a 39-year-old woman on a Queens subway over the weekend and punched her in the face, breaking her jaw. It wasn’t clear what prompted the attack aboard the southbound 7 train, near the Hunters Point Avenue station, around 2 a.m. Sunday. Cops didn’t describe any exchange between the...

New York City Transit is promising to speed up service on multiple lines, and it’s due in part to ridership still not yet having returned to pre-pandemic levels on a regular basis.

The MTA says service is speeding up on the 2,3,4, and 5 lines. Lynda Baquero reports.

A 15-year-old suspected subway surfer suffered severe head trauma in a rush-hour accident aboard a 7 train in Queens Thursday and remained hospitalized in critical condition Friday, police said. Cops say they think the boy, who is from the same borough where the injury occurred, was riding on top of a southbound train and hit his head on an unknown…

A suspected subway surfer is in critical condition after an accident in Queens.

Today the U.S. Supreme court struck down New York’s strict rules against carrying concealed weapons in public. Checkey Beckford reports.