The Mid-Suffolk Yard Project would improve Long Island Rail Road Ronkonkoma Branch service when East Side Access (ESA) to Grand Central Terminal is completed.
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First-time home buyers in the Town of North Hempstead can take a gamble by entering a lottery to own an affordable home in New Cassel. Four new homes are up for sale through the lottery hosted by the town along with Nassau County, the Long Island Housing Partnership, and the…
On the weekend of October 21-22, the Long Island Rail Road replaced the 103-year-old bridge that carries the Main Line over Post Avenue in Westbury. The new bridge has a bay for the LIRR's future third track, making the project the first Main Line Expansion-related initiative to be completed since...
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The Long Island Rail Road will continue its aggressive effort to advance the Double Track Project in Suffolk County the weekend of Saturday, November 18 and Sunday, November 19. This work, which is set to include the beginnings of new platform constructions at Wyandanch and Pinelawn stations, a crossing renewal…
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is using an accident that happened Thursday morning to illustrate the need to raise some overpasses. Cuomo traveled to the scene of a crash in Westbury, where a truck struck a low-lying LIRR overpass at Post and Union avenues around 7 a.m., to announce that…
What is expected to be a yearlong project to raise the Long Island Rail Road trestles that cross North Main Street and Accabonac Road in East Hampton Village will begin next month, the village board was told on Friday. Hector Garcia, a railroad official, told the board that the trestles,…
Work to make the Flushing-Main Street Long Island Railroad (LIRR) station accessible for all has begun. Construction was initiated on the station’s new westbound elevator in August, according to Congresswoman Grace Meng, and on the new eastbound elevator the week of Sept. 11. The elevators, which would make the station Americans with…
A $5.6 billion transformation of the Long Island Rail Road is underway, the biggest slate of investments the railroad has received in decades. All told, the money will fund 100 LIRR capital projects and radically upgrade the customer experience of the nation’s second largest commuter railroad. By the time all…
A $121 million construction initiative to rebuild and modernize the the busiest Long Island Rail Road Station completed Phase 2 of its project and reopened the north platform, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced on Tuesday. The MTA says improvements at the Hicksville station include electronic displays, translucent canopies, energy-efficient platform…
The conversion of the James A. Farley Post Office building, across from Penn Station, into the new Moynihan Train Hall, is officially underway, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced Thursday afternoon. Demolition work at the post office building got underway in September 2016, but the site has now been prepped for the…
