Stephen Nessen

Mayor Bill de Blasio's commissioner for transportation Polly Trottenberg has resigned.

The MTA says next year's budget will slash both service and jobs, and include fare and toll hikes. With no federal aid in sight, time is running out.

As COVID infections increase in much of the region, essential workers, particularly transit workers, are worried about a second wave.

Taxi drivers rallied at City Hall Thursday, to send a message. They want the city to support a new plan that would help medallion owners with loans drivers say are impossible to pay off.

The MTA has agreed to set aside some jobs for pregnant transit workers. The agreement comes months after a transit worker lost a her baby while working on the job.

The MTA is hopeful that president-elect Joe Biden’s administration will help it recover from pandemic-related losses. But watchdogs are wary.

Protesters took to the streets for another night in New York and were once again met with a strong show of police force.

As straphangers return underground, headline grabbing crimes may deter some from riding the subways. 

MTA leadership says they’re worried that NYPD officers aren't patrolling the subways enough. They say a stronger police presence could've prevented recent crimes.

The city's subway system turns 116 years old Tuesday, and while a lot has changed since 1904, a lot remains the same. Author John Morris breaks down how far we've come. 

A new NYU study of transit workers found that nearly 25 percent of those surveyed tested positive for COVID 19 or had antibodies.

New digital subway map is supposed to make a straphangers life much easier.

New York top fiscal watchdog is sounding the alarm about the MTA’s future. The State Comptroller’s annual report finds mass transit will be severely cut if no federal aid comes soon.

Trump promised to spend trillions on infrastructure, but Gateway, the most important project in the tri-state area, maybe the country, still hasn’t really gotten off the ground.

When something happens in the subways, a message is broadcast over a phone line called the Six Wire. And when one of its workers retires, the line is used for a farewell.

The MTA needs $12 billion to get through the next year, or it says it will have to resort to massive cuts in service, fare hikes, and layoffs. And there’s no sign the money is coming.

A Manhattan straphanger has received the MTA's "highest civilian honor": free rides for a year. Rikien Wilder, caught the alleged culprit who caused a train derailment Sunday.

Nearly 20 percent of the MTA’s subway and bus workers are women, but when they get pregnant, the MTA can be slow to accommodate them. This has led to multiple complaints and lawsuits.

Black Lives Matter protesters say two men in a dark SUV tried to run them over during protests in July. The men are public employees; they work for the MTA. 

New York's transit system has weathered the Great Depression, the attacks of 9/11 and more, but the current global pandemic is having the most devastating effect of any disaster.