A long-delayed plan to fix the storm-damaged East River Tunnels, used by the LIRR and other railroads, will begin next year with $1.3 billion in federal funding that will cover roughly the entire ...

The East River Mountain Tunnel's importance was demonstrated on July 24, 2014 when a tractor-trailer caught fire in its northbound lane. The entire tunnel was evacuated and thick black smoke was ...

More than $400 million in federal funds has been secured to make critical repairs inside East River rail tunnels damaged by saltwater from superstorm Sandy, Sen. Chuck Schumer said.

A look inside one of Amtrak's East River Tunnels before the start of a $1.6 billion project to repair damage from Superstorm Sandy. The project requires a shutdown of the tunnels. May 15, 2025.

The lengthy repairs will reduce the train capacity of the East River Tunnel by 25%. And that has MTA officials and Gov. Kathy Hochul worried that project complications could snarl commutes.

Ninety feet below the East River, Amtrak’s 110 year-old train tunnels are slowly filling with salty water dripping on high-voltage cables as steel is nearly corroded to dust. Above ground, heads ...

Weekend crews have been working on two tunnels — under the Hudson River and the East River — but engineers have found that damage from flooding in the 2012 storm was more extensive than first ...

The tunnel project is designed to revitalize two of the four century-old tubes beneath the East River, which the Long Island Rail Road, New Jersey Transit and Amtrak rely on for service.

Amtrak owns the four single-track tunnels that run under the East River to Penn Station, although the New York-based Metropolitan Transportation Authority operates the LIRR, as well as the New ...

I say Amen! to THE TIMES'S able editorial in the issue of yesterday on the subject of the East River tunnel. No one who is at all familiar with the subject but agrees that there is necessity for ...