Pennsylvania Station is the main intercity railroad station in New York City and the busiest transportation facility in the Western Hemisphere,serving more than 600,000 passengers per weekday as of 2019. The station is located beneath Madison Square Garden in the block bounded by Seventh and Eighth Avenues and 31st and 33rd Streets and in the James A. Farley Building,with additional exits to nearby streets,in Midtown Manhattan. It is close to several popular Manhattan locations,including Herald Square,the Empire State Building,Koreatown,and Macy's Herald Square.
The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system in the New York City boroughs of Manhattan,Brooklyn,Queens,and the Bronx. It is owned by the government of New York City and leased to the New York City Transit Authority,an affiliate agency of the state-run Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). Opened on October 27,1904,the New York City Subway is one of the world's oldest public transit systems,one of the most-used,and the one with the most stations,with 472 stations in operation.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is a public benefit corporation responsible for public transportation in the New York City metropolitan area of the U.S. state of New York. The MTA is the largest public transit authority in North America,serving 12 counties in Downstate New York,along with two counties in southwestern Connecticut under contract to the Connecticut Department of Transportation,carrying over 11 million passengers on an average weekday systemwide,and over 850,000 vehicles on its seven toll bridges and two tunnels per weekday.
MTA Construction and Development Company is a subsidiary of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA),formed in July 2003 as MTA Capital Construction Company to manage the MTA's major capital projects in the New York metropolitan area. It mainly focuses on improving transportation infrastructure and facilities in New York City,the Hudson Valley,and Long Island areas. Funding primarily comes from local,state,and national bond sales and budgets. In 2017 Janno Lieber became MTA Capital Construction president;in 2021 he was appointed Acting Chair of the MTA.
East Side Access (ESA) is a public works project in New York City that extended the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) two miles from its Main Line in Queens to the new Grand Central Madison station under Grand Central Terminal on Manhattan's East Side. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) project was originally scheduled to open in 2009 but was delayed by more than a decade. The new station and tunnels opened with limited service to Jamaica station in Queens on January 25,2023,and full service began on February 27,2023. The estimated cost of the project rose over threefold from US$3.5 billion to US$11.1 billion as of April 2018,making it one of the world's most expensive underground rail-construction projects.
Mets–Willets Point is a station on the Long Island Rail Road's Port Washington Branch in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park,Queens,New York City. Prior to 2021,the station would normally be open only during New York Mets home games,the U.S. Open tennis tournament,major events,and emergencies. The station has been served full-time since 2023.
The Bay Ridge Branch is a rail line owned by the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) and operated by the New York and Atlantic Railway in New York City. It is the longest freight-only line of the LIRR,connecting the Montauk Branch and CSX Transportation's Fremont Secondary at Glendale,Queens with the Upper New York Bay at Bay Ridge,Brooklyn.
In New York City,a planned congestion pricing scheme will charge vehicles traveling into or within the central business district of Manhattan. First proposed in 2007,this disincentivizing fee to cut down on traffic congestion and pollution was approved and included in the 2019 New York state government budget by the New York State Legislature. As of February 2023,congestion pricing is scheduled to be implemented in the second quarter of 2024. When the congestion charge goes into effect,tolls will be collected electronically and will vary depending on the time of day,type of vehicle,and whether a vehicle has an E-ZPass toll transponder.
Kathleen Hochul is an American politician and lawyer. Since August 24,2021,she has served as the 57th governor of New York. A member of the Democratic Party,she is New York's first female governor and the first governor from Upstate New York since Nathan L. Miller in 1920.
Joseph J. Lhota is an American public servant and a former politician who served as the chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and was also a former deputy mayor of New York City. He was the Republican nominee in an unsuccessful bid for the 2013 election for Mayor of New York City. In January 2014,he became senior vice president,vice dean,and chief of staff at NYU Langone Medical Center. In 2017,he returned to the chairmanship of the MTA,but would not run the authority day-to-day. He resigned from that position in 2018.
Andrew Byford is a British transport executive who has held several management-level positions in transport authorities around the world,such as the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC),New York City's Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA),Transport for London (TfL),Sydney's then RailCorp,and currently Amtrak.
The LaGuardia Link Q70 Select Bus Service bus route is a public transit line in Queens,New York City,running primarily along the Brooklyn Queens Expressway. It runs between the 61st Street–Woodside station—with transfers to the New York City Subway and Long Island Rail Road—and Terminals B and C at LaGuardia Airport,with one intermediate stop at the Jackson Heights–Roosevelt Avenue/74th Street station. This route is operated by MTA Regional Bus Operations under the MTA Bus Company brand.
Patrick Joseph Foye is an American lawyer who served as Chairman and CEO of the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). Prior to this role,he served as President of the MTA and Executive Director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
AirTrain LaGuardia was a proposed 1.5-mile-long (2.4 km) people mover system and elevated railway in New York City,United States,that would provide service to LaGuardia Airport in Queens. It would have connected with the New York City Subway and Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) in Willets Point,similar to how the existing AirTrain JFK system connects John F. Kennedy International Airport’s six terminals to the LIRR in southern Queens at Jamaica station and to the subway at both Sutphin Boulevard–Archer Avenue–JFK Airport station and Howard Beach-JFK Airport station;and how the existing AirTrain Newark station connects Newark Liberty International Airport’s three terminals to NJ Transit Rail Operations and Amtrak at a dedicated station.
Tim Minton is an American television journalist,media executive,and government official.
In 2017,New York Governor Andrew Cuomo declared a state of emergency for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) due to ongoing reliability and crowding problems with mass transit in New York City. This order applied particularly to the New York City Subway,which was the most severely affected by dilapidated infrastructure,causing overcrowding and delays. With many parts of the system approaching or exceeding 100 years of age,general deterioration could be seen in many subway stations. By 2017,only 65% of weekday trains reached their destinations on time,the lowest rate since a transit crisis in the 1970s. To a lesser extent,New York City buses operated by the MTA were also affected. Both the subway and the buses are run by the New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA),a subsidiary of the MTA. A separate crisis at Penn Station affected the routes of the three railroad agencies that provided service into the station. Media outlets deemed these crises "the summer of hell".
Grand Central Madison is a commuter rail terminal for the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) in the Midtown East neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. Part of the East Side Access project,the new terminal started construction in 2008 and opened on January 25,2023. The station sits beneath Grand Central Terminal,which serves the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA)'s Metro-North Railroad.
Sarah Elizabeth Feinberg is an American civic employee who previously served as the Interim President of the New York City Transit Authority from 2020 to 2021,and a former Administrator of the Federal Railroad Administration. She was nominated for the role of MTA Chairperson but was ultimately not selected for the position. Her background is mostly in communications.
The Interborough Express (IBX) is a proposed 14-mile (22.5 km) 24/7 light rail line in New York City. As proposed,the line would operate on its own separate tracks within the existing right-of-way from the Bay Ridge Branch and Fremont Secondary to connect Bay Ridge,Brooklyn and Jackson Heights,Queens. Near the All Faiths Cemetery in Queens,IBX would operate on the street. As of 2023 the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) estimated that the project would be operational in 2027.
On January 4,2024,a New York City Subway train derailed causing at least 26 people,mostly passengers,to suffer minor injuries. The incident happened when the first car of a 1 train collided with a disabled train that had been vandalized,both consisting of R62As,just north of the 96th Street station. Around 300 people were evacuated off the train involved in the collision.
