The two tunnels pegged for repairs — known as Line 1 and Line 2 — are primarily used by Amtrak, which runs trains up to ...

CBS News New York got a rare look inside the East River Tunnels before Amtrak's $1.6 billion project to repair Superstorm Sandy damage begins.

Lost in the debate between Amtrak, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, and transportation advocates over the plans to close Amtrak’s ...

The single tube closure, slated to last 10 days, will start a two-and-a-half year repair project that will reduce the East ...

Amtrak has kicked off the first long-term track outage in support of the East River Tunnel Rehabilitation Project that will ...

Unless there’s another delay caused by Amtrak incompetence, or much better, a freeze order from the White House or the U.S.

Ninety feet below the East River, Amtrak’s 110 year-old train tunnels are slowly filling with salty water dripping on ...

The Long Island Rail Road is warning riders to prepare for possible service disruptions next week when Amtrak starts repairing the East River Tunnels.

The single tube closure, scheduled to last 10 days, is the first step in Amtrak’s long-delayed, $1.6 billion project to ...

LIRR leadership previously called a full shutdown “catastrophic,” as reported by the New York Daily News. Amtrak has promised to minimize the pain with extra inspections, more crews and emergency ...

The MTA, Gov. Kathy Hochul and Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman have advocated against taking the tunnel entirely out of service.

To illustrate the major repairs needed in one of Amtrak’s East River tunnels, a top railroad official only needed to brush his hands along a piece of metal. “This is 130-year-old steel ...