Stephen Nessen

The MTA will shutdown each night in order to clean subway cars and stations. This comes as the pandemic continues and the MTA faces pressure to its homeless problem

Under pressure from Governor Cuomo, the MTA is taking new steps to clean up the subways and remove people experiencing homelessness from the trains.

Transit officials are struggling with the number of people experiencing homelessness living on the subway. Advocates say the city needs to provide housing for them.

“He really cared about his brothers and sisters at transit," recalls a fellow union leader. "He just wanted people to be treated with dignity and respect."

The city plans to close at least 40 miles of streets to vehicular traffic starting in May to make room for pedestrians and cyclists.

City Council Speaker Corey Johnson is backing a bill to close 75 miles of streets for pedestrians and cyclists. It would create more outdoor space for people during the COVID-19 crisis. 

The MTA board has approved $500,000 payments to families of workers who’ve died from COVID-19. At its monthly meeting, board members remembered some of the 83 transit workers lost. 

Transit workers have been on the front lines of this pandemic. As a result, thousands have gotten sick. The MTA has seen more killed by COVID-19 than any other city agency.

While most construction in New York has been halted, the MTA has continued working. With 250 projects underway.

The MTA is asking the federal government for $4 billion to keep it running through the end of the year. This request is on top of the $4 billion it got already.

Subway ridership is now down 93 percent as social distancing and businesses remain closed. And budget watchdogs are just beginning to tally up the losses for the MTA.

MTA leaders say the agency will pay $500,000 to the family of any worker who dies from COVID-19.

In an effort to protect MTA bus workers from contracting COVID-19 at work, the agency is taking new measures.

More than 40 MTA workers have died after contracting COVID-19, and more than a thousand are quarantined in their homes.

The city's  essential workers as well as MTA crews have complained about overcrowding on the subways and buses in recent weeks. In response, the MTA is making some changes.

Among the wailing of sirens on city streets, there’s another sound breaking the silence: loud and fast cars.

Judges will soon be able to ban people convicted of sexual crimes on MTA property from using public transportation for up to three years. Same goes for those who assault transit workers.

State lawmakers have approved legislation that makes electric bikes and scooters legal. 

The MTA has continued to operate, but after nine workers died from COVID-19, and nearly 600 have tested positive, there's a shortage of workers.

Officials are still searching for who’s responsible for starting a fire this morning on a subway car that killed the conductor and injured more than a dozen people.