Amtrak’s long-term closure of one of the tunnel tubes (Amtrak calls them “lines”) under the East River between Penn Station ...

Two of four crumbling East River tunnels stretch from Long Island City, Queens, to Penn Station. Floodwaters from the Oct. 29, 2012, Superstorm Sandy inundated two tunnels and left behind ...

The East River Tunnel Rehabilitation project will tentatively get underway on May 23 instead of this Friday, Amtrak President Roger Harris revealed in a letter to Hochul Tuesday.

The East River Tunnel's Tube No. 2, one of two tubes Amtrak says it needs to close for repairs. (Evan Simko-Bednarski/New York Daily News) Federal railway Amtrak is set to shut down one of the ...

The work will take place in one tunnel tube at a time under a full closure for maximum efficiency, beginning with Line 2 on June 2. Throughout the project, three of the four East River Tunnels will ...

LIRR president warns Amtrak project could affect service for years 02:57. It could be a rough few years ahead for Long Island Rail Road commuters as Amtrak plans to shut down the East River ...

Construction on one of the region's most ambitious public transportation projects will create some short-term pain for West ...

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 ...

THE EAST RIVER TUNNEL. Share full article. June 1, 1901. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from June 1, 1901, Page 8 Buy Reprints. View on timesmachine.