Hochul and the MTA have vocally urged Amtrak to avoid a tube outage by carrying out the work on nights and weekends, like the MTA did for repairs to the L train East River tunnel in 2019. Amtrak ...

Before Amtrak starts its $1.6 billion project to repair the East River Tunnels damaged in Superstorm Sandy, CBS News New York got a rare look inside the tubes hundreds of feet below the surface.

The MTA is urging Amtrak to avoid a tunnel outage by carrying out the work on nights and weekends, like the MTA did for repairs to the L train East River tunnel in 2019. Hochul made the same ...

Arriving at Amtrak’s East River Tunnel offices in Long Island City late Wednesday night, the small group of journalists, including The Point, was given an overview of the damage wrought by time ...

The East River tunnels are used by Amtrak, the MTA’s Long Island Rail Road and NJ Transit, which sends trains to Queens so they can be ready to head back to New Jersey during rush hour.

Starting May 9, Amtrak will close for repair one of the four East River tunnels that connect Penn Station to Queens — forcing the MTA, Amtrak and New Jersey Transit trains to operate on fewer ...

Amtrak’s long-term closure of one of the tunnel tubes (Amtrak calls them “lines”) under the East River between Penn Station and Queens remains controversial. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, other elected ...

Amtrak is lying to President Trump and Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, ... nights and weekends work can bring the East River Tunnel into pristine operating condition, ...

A flooded East River tunnel used by the MTA and Amtrak after Superstorm Sandy hit the region in 2012. Credit: Amtrak. By The Editorial BoardMay 6, 2025. Share.

Amtrak president Roger Harris thinks Gov. Kathy Hochul has her facts wrong. In a letter to the governor, Harris defended Amtrak’s shutdown plan for the storm-damaged East River tunnels during ...

Later tonight, Amtrak is going to fully shut down one of the four tubes of the critical East River Tunnel in a foolish repair effort that has already wiped out for at least next three years 25% of ...

Kathy Hochul is calling on Amtrak to reevaluate its plan to fully shut down the East River Tunnels as it undertakes its latest rehabilitation project and consider shifting instead to a ...