A development company wants to finish off a job that Donald Trump began more than two decades ago. Back then, Trump proposed to build a massive complex of office and residential buildings on a platform above an old train yard between West 59th and West 72nd streets near the Hudson ...

Upper East Side businesses struggling through subway tunnel construction are asking the City Council for help.

At hearings yesterday, Second Avenue Business Association head Joe Pecora estimated that 14 businesses have closed or been forced to relocate as a result of construction on the new subway tunnel between 90th and 96th ...

WNYC reporters Fred Mogul and Matthew Schuerman discuss the new ground zero settlement, which awards plaintiffs $712.5 million.

Lawyers say they've reached a new settlement for almost 10,000 emergency personnel and construction workers who may have suffered health problems while working on the pile at Ground Zero.

The revised proposal, which still has to be approved by 95 percent of the workers, would increase the total compensation for plaintiffs ...

Station agent at the 23rd St. stop. (Photo by Stephen Nessen)

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority's board has voted to hold a new round of four public hearings next month to discuss ...

A state civil court judge has ordered the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to reopen, and restaff, 42 subway station booths that she says the MTA improperly closed in May.

The ruling, from Judge Saliann Scarpulla, comes just days after she threw out the MTA's plan to close 100 more booths, and lay ...

A Manhattan judge has ruled that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) can not close subway token booths or fire more than 200 station agents without first holding public hearings.

A state judge is forcing the the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) to postpone its plan to layoff hundreds of station agents. Civil court Judge Saliann Scarpulla made the ruling Friday, saying that the MTA didn't hold sufficient public hearings on its plan to close about 100 full and ...

The region's three transit agencies launched a "smart card" pilot today, saying it would cut down on their operating costs and make commuting more convenient for riders.

If it works, the technology could lead to the demise of the MetroCard and the rise of an interstate system that would let commuters ...

Beginning Tuesday, the MTA will pilot a new payment system on some bus and subway lines that will turn certain types of MasterCards into MetroCards.

Instead of swiping, owners of credit and debit cards embedded with computer chips will be able to tap the cards against a specially designated farebox on ...

Memorial Day in the region was marked by parades, ceremonies, picnics and a helicopter demonstration that went awry leaving 10 observers with minor injuries.

The helicopter was an Osprey MV-22 taking part in a Fleet Week event at Staten Island's Clove Lakes Park. As the vehicle was landing, its propellers created ...

The MTA is cutting subway and bus service in a number of places--but a mile-long subway tunnel on the Lower East Side is actually being revived.

The tunnel will be used to weld together the eastern branch of the M line and the V line. The tunnel runs from the Broadway-Lafayette ...

The MTA originally wanted to lay off 475 agents because of budget pressures, but settled for 260 after a judge blocked the authority's plan to close some station booths open.

Maurice Jenkins, a vice president with the Transport Workers Union Local 100, says that turned out to be too ...

More than 20 City Council members are signing on to a bill that would require workers at any new city-subsidized real estate project to receive a "living wage," $10 an hour plus benefits or $11.50 an hour without benefits.

The bill was introduced Tuesday by Bronx council members Oliver Koppell and ...

Some New Jersey Transit trains may be a bit more crowded than usual this morning. The agency's cutting 31 weekday trains, or four percent of the daily load, in order to plug an ongoing budget deficit.

Spokesman Dan Stessel says most riders won't feel the service cuts. That's because the majority ...

Low-floor buses have fewer steps than regular buses, but passengers are stumbling anyway. The MTA says 75 people got injured on low-floor buses over a 12-month period. Most of those injuries occurred while passengers were getting off. That's apparently because riders have a false sense that the low-floor buses are ...

MTA officials are pressuring the Transport Workers Union to make sacrifices to help out the authority's budget crisis.

The MTA is increasingly publicizing embarrassing facts about union members' behavior. Last week, it was about those who abused overtime. Monday, it was how 51 bus drivers had taken, on average, 64 days ...

The Port Authority's spending $120 million in federal and local funds to buy and upgrade a rail yard in Jersey City, New Jersey. It could end up serving two potential New York City projects.

Mayor Bloomberg has been trying to put New York City's trash on barges and sail it across ...

Deputy Mayor for Economic Development Bob Lieber is stepping down after two and a half years at City Hall. He's the third deputy mayor to leave since Mayor Michael Bloomberg was elected to a third term last November.

Lieber lived in the shadow of his forceful predecessor, Dan Doctoroff who was ...

The Buildings Department is prohibiting residents at 16 buildings across the city from using their balconies, and that number could go up. That's because inspections so far have found the balconies to be unsafe.

Gibran Baydoun moved into a building on East 39th Street in Manhattan just yesterday. He knew about ...