

Janno Lieber, acting chairman of the M.T.A., said on Thursday on CNN that passengers on 15 to 20 subway cars had to be rescued in the storm. DYKER BEACH PARK W ESTCH R THE BRONX N A S S A U Q E E N S QUEENS BROOKLYN Jamaica Bay H a r l e m s R i v e r o E a s t R R i v e r H E a s t R i v e r Hudson River. The lower level of Terminal B in Newark remained closed after flooding overnight. The London Underground has become one of the world’s most reliable and innovative metro systems, while in New York a state of emergency was declared in 2017 as the subway system achieved the.


“It’s not a light decision to make, to shut down service, but with the visibility at near-zero, and seeing the devastation that Ida was causing elsewhere, it was the right call,” he said.ĭozens of flights were also canceled or delayed at Kennedy International Airport and La Guardia Airport, and at least 370 flights were canceled Thursday morning at Newark Liberty International Airport. Phil Eng, president of the Long Island Rail Road, said at a news conference Thursday that the suspension of service was necessary. The delays followed a night of intense rainfall that flooded streets and train stations and stranded thousands of travelers. Service on most of the Metro-North Railroad lines remained disrupted.

(Ed Ou for The Washington Post) 10 min Article Days after. Subway seats and cars were streaked with blood as people called for help.The Long Island Rail Road resumed full service on most branches by Thursday afternoon, with delays on trains traveling east of Mets-Willets Point on the Port Washington Branch. Officers with the New York Police Department stand near a subway station entrance after the April 12 attack on a train in Brooklyn. As the shooting unfolded and the doors of the train opened, sending smoke billowing through 36th Street station, fearful riders fled, many of them hurrying onto an R train sitting across the platform. The N train snakes through working-class neighborhoods filled with immigrants from all over Asia and Latin America. The oldest, at City Hall, dates back to 1904, while the three new stops on the Second Avenue line opened at the start of 2017. Mayor Eric Adams said that the search for the gunman was hampered by the fact that at least one security camera at the 36th Street subway station that might have captured the scene was not operating. New York City’s subway system comprises 472 stations. It set off panic and chaos aboard the train, in the station and the surrounding streets and sent schools in the vicinity into lockdowns that lasted much of the day. The shooting came as the city was already struggling to cope with both a rise in shootings citywide and an increase in crime and disorder in the subway that has scared commuters from returning to a transit system that saw ridership plummet during the pandemic.
