The LIRR will add 11 additional trains on Wednesday evening to serve Babylon, Montauk, Ronkonkoma, Port Jefferson and Port Washington branches. Those extra trips will run into both Penn Station and Grand Central Madison, starting in the early evening. Another 12 additional trains will run overnight into New Year's Day, aimed at easing the post-midnight rush back to Long Island. On New Year's Day, the LIRR will operate on a Sunday schedule.
The MTA plans to extend Metro-North Railroad service north to the Albany area, offering a once-a-day round trip between Grand Central Terminal and the Capital Region. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Monday announced the northward expansion will launch in the spring, noting it will be the first commuter train service between Grand Central and Albany-Rensselaer since 1967. The new trip will serve as an alternative to Amtrak trains that run between Manhattan Penn Station and the Capital Region.
The crime in question occurred on Sept. 18, when Alex O'Keefe, a former writer for The Bear on FX, allegedly refused to leave a Connecticut-bound train stopped at the Fordham station in the Bronx after police said he was being disruptive. Video circulating on social media shows O'Keefe yelling at police and pointing at passengers on board the train. I haven't done anything illegal, O'Keefe says in the video as police tell him to stop resisting as they cuff his wrists.
Anyone traveling on the MTA's Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) or Metro-North Railroad can travel between stops within NYC stops using a CityTicket for $5 during off-peak hours or $7 during peak hours. In other words, New Yorkers can use the LIRR and Metro-North, even if they are not heading into the city's surrounding counties, without paying full cost. While CityTicket has existed in NYC since 2003 for weekend travel,
Throughout the incident response, our teams replaced 400 ft of overhead catenary and then realigned an additional 2,000 ft of the network on each of the affected tracks to ensure reliability.
