Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about LIRR

Meet Google Pigeon — A New App That Wants You to Help Others Get Around

By Gersh Kuntzman | Aug 28, 2019 | 14 Comments

The app, "which uses crowdsourcing to provide real time transit data" serves all modes of public transportation in New York City, including busses, commuter rail and ferries.

The arena would be built on the parking lot at the bottom left corner of this photo, next to the existing LIRR station, even though the new train station would be built a great distance away, requiring shuttle buses.

Op-Ed: More Questions About Cuomo’s Belmont Boondoggle

By Streetsblog | Jul 22, 2019 | 2 Comments

More and more advocacy groups are questioning an MTA deal that would construct a new LIRR rail platform near Belmont Park to serve a new arena for the New York Islanders. The latest is Reinvent Albany.

This state rendering does not show the shuttle buses that these Islander fans will have to board to get to their arena, which will sit at another LIRR station on the other side of Belmont Park.

Op-Ed: Gov. Cuomo’s Plan for New LIRR Station for Islanders is a Boondoggle

By Larry Penner | Jul 9, 2019 | 5 Comments

The state's plan for a new LIRR station at Belmont Park raises many questions, many of which are asked in this op-ed by a respected transit analyst.

Robert Caro Stands By His ‘Power Broker’ Sub-Title — And Here’s Why

By David Meyer | Apr 10, 2019 | 3 Comments

In 1974, he underscored his magnum opus as "Robert Moses and the Fall of New York." This week, Caro reiterated that New York has never recovered from the master builder's evil.

Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins is leading a quiet revolt of suburban drivers against city transit users. Photo: Kevin P. Coughlin/Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo

SUBURBAN REVOLT! Another County Heard from as Senate Dems Protest Congestion Pricing

By Gersh Kuntzman | Mar 1, 2019 | 18 Comments

Why is Andrea Stewart-Cousins allowing the tyranny of suburban drivers over suffering city transit users?

Mayor de Blasio. For president. Insert your own caption here. Photo: Gersh Kuntzman

Mayor Defends Handing Cuomo Full MTA Control As L.I. Dems Bolt

By Gersh Kuntzman | Feb 27, 2019 | 4 Comments

Hizzoner rides the subway — no, really! — and pitches straphangers on his new partnership with the governor.

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