Letter: East Side Access may gain little

Source: Newsday

The only thing more offensive than the time and cost overruns for East Side Access is the Metropolitan Transportation Authority 's plan itself ["Fooled again by another costly public project," Opinion, May 24].As envisioned, tra ...
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Lost & Found at New York's Grand Central Terminal: Cell phones, scarves & dentures

Source: Rock Center With Brian Williams

It's been called the "mother of all Lost and Founds." Tucked into the belly of New York's Grand Central Terminal is a nondescript, Post Office-like window where dejected commuters line up to see if, just may ...
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All Aboard: LIRR Revamping Hicksville Train Station

Source: Hicksville Illustrated News

Over the next five years, Long Island Rail Road commuters from Hicksville, Westbury and Mineola will notice some significant changes at their hometown stations. The MTA Long Island Rail Road announced on Monday, May 21, ...
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Inside Men in Black III's Chrysler Building Time Jump

Source: Popular Mechanics

In Men in Black III, out May 25, Agent J (Will Smith) has to travel back to the 1960s to save Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones). And the only way to make the time jump is to jumpoff the top of the Chrysler building. As J freefalls from the iconic sk ...
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McKinstry: A sustainable future for Playland

Source: Newsday

Gerald McKinstry is a member of the Newsday editorial board. When Douglas McKean was 22 and studying landscape architecture in the late 1970s, his graduate thesis was about transforming Playland Amusement Park in Rye.Back then, he figured h ...
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Metro-North Increasing Trains Friday

Source: The Daily Cortlandt

Metro-North is increasing its trains around noon Friday. WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. – Metro-North will be operating 19 early “getaway trains” for those people looking to leave work early Friday to enjoy their long Memorial D ...
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NYT Accidentally Vindicates Chris Christie

Source: Commentary

Today on a popular blog about New York City on the New York Times‘ website, the history of recent public transportation projects was rehashed in light of a recent announcement on the extension of the Long Island Railroad to Grand Centr ...
Full article at: Commentary  More like this  1 day ago, 4:27pm CDT

What else is new? MTA’s grand East Side Access project is over budget and behind schedule

Source: New York Daily News

They call the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s attempt to bore a tunnel to connect the Long Island Rail Road with Grand Central Terminal one of the biggest public-works projects since the reign of the Pharaoh Cheops. He built the Great Pyramid in ...
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LIRR to cancel some trains for a month

Source: Newsday

The Long Island Rail Road will cancel three evening rush hour trains for about a month this summer to allow crews to get some extra work done on the struggling East Side Access project to link the LIRR to Grand Central Terminal, officials ...
Full article at: Newsday  More like this  2 days ago, 9:25pm CDT