The sinking of the Titanic on April 15 in 1912 was the biggest news story of its day. But people on land had only the barest facts about the tragedy at sea until almost three days later, when more than 700 survivors reached New York on the steamer Carpathia. What followed was an unprecedented media frenzy.

The Yankees hold their first home game in the Bronx on Friday afternoon, but the company that owns their stadium's parking garages may be on its last legs.

The gates were locked on Friday at MaCombs Dam Field alongside the new Yankee Stadium. That's despite reports the field had opened this week, a year behind schedule and five years after a set of neighborhood baseball diamonds were paved over to make way for a stadium parking lot.

A new report says the first phase of the NY MTA’s security upgrade after 9/11 won’t be done for another two years, and that cost keeps rising.

MTA chairman Joe Lhota said a proposed extension of the No. 7 train subway line from Manhattan to New Jersey is "not going to happen in our lifetime. It's not going to happen in anybody's lifetime."

The Port Authority of NY & NJ announced Thursday that it is overhauling its security operations, starting with the hiring of a Chief Security Officer.

The MTA is buying 300 subway cars to replace equipment on the C line that's nearing 50 years of age.

The MTA, once roundly cursed,
For removing verse
From subway trains
Is today taking pains
To announce the return of Poetry in Motion.

MTA president Tom Prendergast said Monday that the authority is considering installing doors on platforms in the wake of a number of subway deaths — including a fatality on the L train tracks in Brooklyn this weekend.

The old adage is true: “If you build a system for mobile devices that allows Staten Islanders to find out when their bus will arrive, they will come.”

A new app released by the U.S. Department of Transportation this week is designed to let riders view bus companies’ safety records – but the wealth of information is largely undecipherable, an issue for riders in a city like New York that is a major hub of the booming bus industry.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood made a full-throated cry for Congress to pass the Senate's version of the federal surface transportation bill during a stop at the Hoboken train station Monday.

Late-night riders of the No. 4, 5 and 6 train have their subway back starting Friday after the MTA shut it down overnight for four days this week.

The MTA said there are three ways to use real-time bus information known as Bus Time: Click it. Text it. Scan it. I went to three bus stops in Staten Island to try it on Wednesday, the day it launched in the borough.

MTA Chief Joseph Lhota believes the Metropolitan Transportation Authority deserves more respect. Confirmed Monday by the New York State Senate, Lhota’s main goal seems simple enough on paper: getting the public not to hate on the nation’s largest transit agency. 

The MTA and its main union have canceled a bargaining session ten days before their labor contract is set to expire.

Jim O'Grady, WNYC's transit reporter, talks about New York City's abandoned subway stations.

The New York City subway system has 842 miles of track, making it the largest in North America. And there's even more to it than riders see: dozens of tunnels and platforms that were either abandoned or were built but never used. They form a kind of ghost system that reveals how the city's transit ambitions have been both realized and thwarted.

MAP: Lost Subways: Abandoned Stations & Unbuilt Lines

The Bloomberg administration says the city will have the lowest number of traffic fatalities in its history this year.

Christmas is over, but the shopping continued Monday as customers thronged Manhattan retailers.