Grand Central Terminal — Monday, August 2, 2010 4:00
Source: Terror plot targeted Times Square, Grand Central stations
NYC Subway Hero Disappears
Friday, June 4, 2010 2:00
The man who saved a woman who had fainted and fell on to the tracks of the L Train of the new York City Subway System, is nowhere to be found and has vanished into the night. 26 year old Jessica Osht’a fell on the tracks on Monday evening when a complete stranger came and [...]
WNYC – News – MTA Revises Spending Plan
Sunday, May 2, 2010 3:00
NEW YORK, NY April 24, 2010—The MTA has trimmed $2 billion from its five-year capital spending plan. A state board rejected an earlier version of the plan last year, saying it didn’t explain where all the money would come from. WNYC’s Mattthew Schuerman has more. REPORTER: the proposed capital plan outlines hundreds of projects that [...]
MTA Budget Cuts Will Hit Disabled
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 17:30
Clara Bailon is one of 900,000 new Yorkers with a disability who is bracing for Metropolitan Transportation Authority service cuts this June that promise to make an already challenging transit system more difficult to use. But even as the budget ax falls, disabled riders will continue to benefit from long-term technological and capital improvements that [...]
Imam Ahmad Afzali linked to Najibullah Zazi NYC subway plot dodges …
Tuesday, April 20, 2010 19:00
BY John Marzulli DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Originally Published:Thursday, April 15th 2010, 4:32 PM Updated: Thursday, April 15th 2010, 5:14 PM The Queens imam who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI in connection with a subway bombing plot was sentenced Thursday to time served and ordered to leave the country within 90 days. Ahmed [...]
Moscow Attacks Renew Safety Questions for US Subways – AOL News
Thursday, April 8, 2010 2:30
(March 30) — as news of Monday’s suicide attacks on Moscow subways spread, the new York Police Department began deploying additional officers to the city’s stations. Explosive-sniffing dogs swept subway cars, and officers searched passengers’ bags. “There’s no indication that the Moscow bombings were related to anything planned against the New York City subway system,” [...]
The MTA’s Compounded Woes
Friday, March 5, 2010 11:16
MYFOXNY.COM – The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is short $750 million. whose fault is it that the MTA is always facing a budget crisis? Fox 5 News asked New York City Comptroller John Liu, who is conducting an audit of the MTA. we also went to William Thompson, the former comptroller, who did an audit six [...]