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Sudden and heavy downpours started hitting the NYC area Thursday afternoon, leading to frequent flash flooding that left roads impassable, and forced some subway riders to trudge through waist-high murky water at at least one station.

An Asian man was thrown onto train tracks inside a station in Queens early Monday morning, and pulled back to safety by other commuters before he could be hit by a train. Police want to find the man responsible for allegedly shoving the 36-year-old Queens man onto the tracks around 7:45 a.m. at the 21st-Queensbridge Station just as an F…

The MTA caught attention last weekend over the way it handles the homeless crisis after deleting a tweet that suggested removing benches at a busy subway station was meant to “prevent the homeless from sleeping on them.” The criticism came after a straphanger noticed the missing benches at the Chelsea station and reached out to the MTA on Twitter. “Benches…

A 20-year-old Staten Island man has been arrested on assault charges for allegedly throwing hot coffee onto an MTA bus driver’s face when he was asked to put on a face covering in accordance with COVID rules, officials said. Alexander Lopez allegedly refused to put on a mask when the driver asked him to put on a mask when...

At least three MTA employees secretly turned a storage room below one of the platforms at Grand Central Terminal into a private “man cave,” complete with a futon, TV, exercise equipment, a fridge and beds, the agency’s inspector general said Thursday. “Many a New Yorker has fantasized about kicking back with a cold beer in a prime piece of...

Police released a disturbing video of a “random attack” committed by an alleged attempted rapist they say occurred in broad daylight on a Manhattan subway platform. The attack happened around 11 a.m. Saturday at the Lexington Av-63 Street Subway Station, according to the NYPD. By Sunday afternoon, Chief of Detectives Rodney Harrison announced the suspect’s arrest in East Harlem....

A man who dumped milk and a large tub of cereal on a subway car in a TikTok stunt was called out by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority for putting unnecessary strain on essential workers during the coronavirus pandemic.

Last week, for the first time in New York’s history, the trains stopped running in a planned shutdown

COVID-19 is presenting a new set of challenges for the Maine Turnpike Authority. Using extra protection when collecting cash tolls, having a large amount of staff take paid administrative leave and deferring maintenance are all adjustments being made right now as the MTA’s management tries to keep the highway functioning as normal as possible. “We’ll run the turnpike on...

The ongoing coronavirus is presenting new challenges for some Maine toll booth workers.

The pair is seen wearing hazmat suits and carrying a bucket of red liquid, then spilling the bucket onto the floor, sending some riders running.

If you thought the voice telling you to “stand clear of the closing doors, please” sounds familiar, you’re right.

Erica Byfield reports.

The MTA plans to close two Washington Heights subway stations for around a year each — though not at the same time — as part of an elevator replacement project.

A runaway MTA bus rolled for blocks down a Brooklyn street, hitting nearly a dozen parked cars and a church early Wednesday, sending one man who had been changing a tire leaping out of the way to save his life, officials said. Police say the driver of the bus got out of the vehicle at about 12:30 a.m. Wednesday in...

A woman somehow got her head wedged in the subway doors at the last stop in the Bronx earlier this week — and once the video was posted on Instagram, it went viral as outraged New Yorkers blasted people who didn’t stop to help.

A woman somehow got her head wedged in the subway doors at the last stop in the Bronx earlier this week — and once the video was posted on Instagram, it went viral as outraged New Yorkers blasted people who didn’t stop to help.

A teenage girl was killed in Queens Sunday afternoon after trying to retrieve a lost item from the subway tracks and being hit by a train.

A teenage girl was killed in Queens Sunday afternoon after trying to retrieve a lost item from the subway tracks and being hit by a train.