A 16-year-old girl has been arrested in Manhattan for allegedly assaulting an Asian woman who was traveling with her family on a subway train, and a bystander who recorded the incident in a now-viral video.
It’s less than two weeks away from the New York primary, the perfect time for Hillary Clinton to take a ride in the New York City subway to demonstrate that she’s can relate to ordinary folks who take the public transport to work everyday.
An attack on the city’s subway system, an attack by drones, or a coordinated series of bombings and shootings like the 2008 incident in Mumbai, India: these were some scenarios that the city council considered at a hearing on Wednesday about the city’s preparedness in the event of a terrorist attack.
NEW YORK—The series of Metro-North accidents that caused 6 deaths and 126 injuries could have been prevented if recommendations by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) had been implemented, officials said Tuesday.
A Bloomberg-era plan to rezone a large portion of East Midtown was pulled in the last days of the mayor’s last term. There had been a wide consensus on the need to upgrade the old and outdated office buildings in East Midtown, but twice as much controversy over how much to value the new buildable area created.
NEW YORK—In an effort to modernize the subway system, the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) has added free Wi-Fi and calling services to 40 stations.
After a series of recent deaths on subway tracks, the MTA board said it will explore using detection technology previously considered only for security.
The FASTRACK program, in which subway workers clean trash from tracks and do other rehab while lines are closed on four consecutive weeknights, will expand in 2013.
One of the last, and one of the worst damaged subway stations hit by Hurricane Sandy will not reopen for at least six months. A tour shows how destructive the storm was.