At Least Seven Dead After Metro-North Train Collides With Vehicle In New York
The northbound Metro-North Railroad train struck a Jeep Cherokee in Valhalla, about 20 miles north of New York City, railroad spokesman Aaron Donovan said. Killed were the SUVs driver and six people aboard the train, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said, making .
Federal investigators en route to scene of Metro-North crash as death toll.
VALHALLA, N.Y. (PIX11) ��� Six people are dead and several more are fighting for their lives Wednesday after a Metro-North train crashed into a Jeep in Westchester County, but officials said the tragedy ��� which marks the agencys deadliest crash in.
Deadly Metro-North Accident, Fire In Valhalla
A Metro-North Harlem Line train hit a car and caught fire in Valhalla on Tuesday, Feb. 3. (Credit: bizzz23). Metro-North Crash, Fire. A Metro-North Harlem Line train hit a car and caught fire in Valhalla on Tuesday, Feb. 3. (Credit: Dan Soloway). Metro.
Metro-North passenger shares experience aboard train of.
(PIX11)��� Judy Opperman was riding a Metro-North train that collided with a Jeep in Westchester County, killing multiple people and injuring several more Tuesday evening. Continuing coverage: Metro-North tragedy.
L.I. Man Is Charged With Shooting Youth
LEAD: A Long Island man has been charged with shooting his 14-year-old daughters boyfriend, the Suffolk County police said yesterday.
Thanksgiving Holiday Closings in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut
. Transit schedules, parking rules and various closings that will take effect on Thanksgiving.
Hobbit Movie Wins Box Office Skirmish
. Last of Middle Earth entries, “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies” garners $90.6 million in ticket sales to lead box office take
After Deadly Metro-North Accident, Investigation Is Underway
As the investigation into the deadliest accident in the history of the Metro-North Railroad got underway on Wednesday, officials said they still could not explain how or why a sport-utility vehicle became stranded on the train tracks. A crowded.
Underground, Both Security And Logic Fail
THE story is a familiar one: A control room fire destroys subway signaling equipment, seriously disrupting service. Subway riders know that the relay system is critical to the subways running safely. And that the system is fragile, old and vulnerable to accidents, like that fire -- in March 1999. Yes, it has happened before, six years ago in a control room of the Bergen Street station in Brooklyn. There was indeed a precursor to the even more destructive fire last weekend in a signaling room north of the Chambers Street station, but somehow little was learned, and it happened again.. Joyce Purnick, in Metro Matters column, notes that police and fire officials say that control room fire that destroyed subway signaling equipment and seriously disrupted service was set; holds that in city that has been on alert for over three years, someone should not have been able to get near enough to fragile subway equipment to wreak havoc on hundreds of thousands of people (M)
Commuter train accident is latest problem for Metro-North.
25, 2013, a feeder cable in suburban Mount Vernon, New York, failed, knocking out power for 12 days to Metro-Norths New Haven line, which carries 132,000 commuters daily. ��� On July 18, 2013, 10 freight train cars hauling��.
Blizzard 2015: Metro-North Departure Times For Last Trains.
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- The MTA announced the departure times for the final trains expected to operate on all Metro-North lines Monday. Customers are urged not to wait until the last train, but to consider leaving earlier.
At least 7 killed when Metro-North train smashes into car in.
(CNN) ��� At least six people died Tuesday when a packed Metro North commuter train plowed into a Jeep Cherokee on the tracks north of New York City. A dozen more were injured, a rail official said. Five of the people killed��.
Metro-North resumes service Tuesday afternoon | WTNH
Metro-North officials said that they will resume normal operations and a normal schedule on Wednesday. Customers who plan to travel on the trains are urged to check the Metro-North website for service updates, as well as��.
Metro-North Rail Service Beset By Accidents in Recent Years
The Metro-North Commuter Railroad formed in 1983 and today covers 775 miles of track with 124 stations in seven New York counties and two in Connecticut. The popular commuter service had experienced a decline in accidents from 2003 to 2012, and no .
Commuter Train Accident Is Latest Problem for Metro-North
A commuter train slammed into an SUV on the tracks at railroad crossing about 20 miles north of New York City on Tuesday evening, killing six people. The accident is the latest problem for Metro-North, the nations second-busiest railroad. Here is a.
Suddenly, Travelers at Grand Central Miss a Funky Old Friend
It wasnt B. Altman or the Horn & Hardart Automat, both major landmarks recently vanished from the New York retail firmament. But for thousands of commuters who passed the Commuter Book Centre in Grand Central Terminal day after day, its sudden disappearance has left perhaps as great a void.
At Least Seven Dead, 12 Injured After Car Collides with Metro-North Train
At least seven people are dead and 12 are injured after a car collided with a Metro-North train in Westchester. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority says at around at 6:30 p.m., a #659 train coming from Grand Central Station hit a black Jeep.
Metro-North Train Crashes Into SUV in Valhalla, NY, Killing Seven
At least seven people were killed and at least a dozen more were injured Tuesday evening when a Metro-North Railroad commuter train crashed into a sport-utility vehicle in Valhalla, in New Yorks Westchester County, authorities said. The fiery 6:30 p.m.
Morning After Fatal Crash, Metro-North Riders Adjust to a New Commute
NORTH WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. ��� The morning after a horrific Metro-North train accident, commuters in Westchester filed in and out of the North White Plains train station while Metro-North workers directed traffic and called out directions. There seemed to.
At least 7 dead after commuter train hits SUV near NYC
VALHALLA, N.Y. -- At least seven people were killed and a dozen injured when a Metro-North commuter train hit a vehicle during the Tuesday evening rush hour outside New York City, CBS New York reported. The SUV was crossing at a crossing in Valhalla, .
HOLLYWOOD IN CHINA; Two Major Pictures, Set in Orient, in Preparation--Metro Tries New Color
HOLLYWOOD. THE first motion picture laid in Communist China, Hal Wallis production, Peking Express, has gone before the cameras at Paramount with Joseph Cotten starring and William Dieterle directing from a photoplay by John Lucas.. North Country: to be filmed by MGM using new Ansco negative-positive process
HOLLYWOOD IN CHINA; Two Major Pictures, Set in Orient, in Preparation--Metro Tries New Color
HOLLYWOOD. THE first motion picture laid in Communist China, Hal Wallis production, Peking Express, has gone before the cameras at Paramount with Joseph Cotten starring and William Dieterle directing from a photoplay by John Lucas.. North Country: to be filmed by MGM using new Ansco negative-positive process
Metro-North Train Hits SUV, Killing 7 in Worst Accident in Its History
A crowded Metro-North Railroad train passing through Westchester County at the height of the evening rush on Tuesday slammed into a sport-utility vehicle on the tracks at a crossing, creating a fiery crash and explosion that killed seven people.
7 Dead When Metro-North Train Hits Car In Valhalla, Catches Fire
VALHALLA, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) ��� Officials said seven people were killed Tuesday evening, when a Metro-North struck a car and caught fire during the evening rush in Valhalla. The accident amounted to the deadliest in the history of the Metro-North .
SMOKING CARS FINAL STOP?
LEAD: A PASSION of many rail commuters - lighting up a stogie or cigarette and sitting back for the trip - is becoming a ritual of the past.
At Least 6 Dead After Commuter Train Strikes Car in New York
A train fire after a Metro-North train struck a vehicle in Valhalla, N.Y. Justin Kaback(@wilfuen) via Instagram A fire broke out after a Metro-North train struck a vehicle in Valhalla, N.Y. on Feb. 3, 2015.
The Commute May Be Routine but the Newsletters Not
For most rail commuters the only paper they receive in exchange for the fare is the ticket. But on Metro-North, they also get the railroads bimonthly publication, filled with arcane rail history, service information and cultural goings-on. What makes the publications so unusual is the writing style: acerbic, irreverent and chatty -- in other words, the antithesis of what one would expect from a faceless entity like the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Metro North Commuter Railroads parent agency.
Staging Her Third Act, Now as Couture Protagonist
JUST before Judy Licht hurtles down the steeply curved stairway of her East 62nd Street town house, with her fashionista shoes stowed in a Burberry tote and reliable Tods flip-flops on her tiny Hamptons-tanned feet, she hollers something about making herself presentable. Apparently this entails slapping on a little makeup with a palette knife, at least thats how she describes the beautification process when she lands in the foyer, beaming and breathless and bug-eyed. Projecting perpetual excitement is a skill Ms. Licht learned early in a broadcasting career that is, according to her, entering its third act in happy defiance of F. Scott Fitzgeralds musing that there are no second acts in American lives.. Public Lives profile of Judy Licht, host of MetroTVs program Full Frontal Fashion; photo (M)
Numerous Deaths Confirmed After Metro-North Train Hits Car
Numerous deaths have been reported after a Metro-North train hit a car this evening in Valhalla, New York, along with 12 moer injuried.
Metro-North, Shoreline East stopping service in storm | WTNH
He did not know when service on Metro-North might resume, but said with 2 to 3 feet of snow expected, he would not expect ���too many trains��� on Tuesday. Copyright 2015 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
At Least Six Dead in Metro-North Train Collision
Updated | At least six people were killed and a dozen seriously injured after a Metro-North train crashed into a Jeep at a railroad crossing about an hour north of New York City Tuesday evening. The northbound Harlem line train had departed Grand.
Amazing more werent hurt in deadly Metro-North crash.
VALHALLA, N.Y. (PIX11) ��� Six people are dead and several more are fighting for their lives Wednesday after a Metro-North train crashed into a Jeep in Westchester County, but officials said the tragedy ��� which marks the��.
Angry Crowd Packs Grand Central
A shortage of working Metro-North Commuter Railroad trains during last evenings rush hour left thousands of commuters stranded in Grand Central Terminal, where they endured long waits, and the occasional arrival of a train caused virtual stampedes to already overflowing cars. Until 6 P.M., the railroad had been providing trains every 30 minutes out of the terminal on its three lines, Dan Brucker, a spokesman for Metro-North, said. But the electrical equipment on many trains had become clogged with snow and ice during the day, so that by yesterday afternoon 40 percent of the electric cars were in repair shops.
Metro-North Apologizes For Hours-Long Train Delay In Bitter Cold
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) ��� The Metro-North Railroad issued an apology Tuesday, a day after hundreds of passengers were stranded for more than two hours in the dark with no heat on a New Haven Line train. As CBS2s Emily Smith reported, the train .
Metro-North Gets Record Fine in Retaliation Case
The Metro-North-Railroad has been ordered to pay a record fine of more than $250,000 to an employee who faced disciplinary action after he reported getting injured on the job, the U.S. Labor Department said Tuesday.
6 Killed, 12 Hurt When Train Smashes into SUV Near New.
At least six people died and 12 were injured Tuesday night, Feb. 3, 2015, when a Metro North commuter train plowed into a vehicle on the tracks north of New York City, a Metro-North Railroad official tells CNN. (Justin Kaback).
Metro-North Train Crash North Of New York Reportedly Kills 7
At least seven people were killed when a commuter train loaded with rush-hour passengers struck at least one vehicle and caught fire north of New York City. The fiery crash happened Tuesday evening near the town of Valhalla, along Metro-North Railroad.
New Years Day Holiday Closings in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut
. Transit schedules, parking rules and various closings that will take effect on New Year’s Day.
Metro-North Snagged Due To Minor Grand Central Derailment
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) ��� Service on the Metro-North Railroad was disrupted Wednesday evening after a derailment at Grand Central Terminal. As CBS2s Weijia Jiang reported, the train was on its way to Harlem when it��.
Christmas Holiday Closings in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut
. Transit schedules, parking rules and various closings that will take effect on Christmas.
HOLLYWOOD PEACE; Hope for End of Filming Slump Seen In Settlement of Writers Strike
HOLLYWOOD LABOR peace returned to the movie industry last week for the first time since Jan. 16, when the screen writers began a strike against seven of the eight major studios.
METROS TRAINS ESERVE A VALENTINE
Welcome aboard the breadline train to Shady Grove. Next stop Woodlawn Park and the National Zoo. The subway conductors voice came over the public address system like the modulated rush of the train itself moving on rubber-cushioned, seamless rails. A few riders on the Red Line looked up from their papers and smiled at the pun.
Metro-North: Expect delays, alternate service on Harlem Line
Metro-North says trains will operate from Wassaic to Southeast on Wednesday, where customers will be able to board a bus to Beacon on the Hudson Line. Electric train service will operate from Brewster to Goldens Bridge.
2 new Waterbury trains boost Metro-North Rail ridership
(AP) ��� The addition of two late-night weekend trains on the Waterbury branch of Metro-North Railroad has increased weekend ridership more than the commuter rail line expected. Two new trains have been running since��.
Connecticut residents dig out; Metro-North back on regular.
Residents in Connecticut continued Thursday to dig out from the wallop of snow that blasted much of the state Monday into Tuesday. The travel ban was lifted at 2 p.m. Tuesday, one day after Connecticut joined Suffolk County��.
Lawmaker demands answers after pair of Metro-North.
A local leader is demanding answers after a pair of minor Metro-North derailments caused massive headaches for commuters. On Wednesday, the 5:19 p.m. train to Wassaic derailed as it was pulling away from Grand Central.
METRO DIGEST
NEW YORK CITY SALMAN RUSHDIE EMERGES FROM HIDING With no advance warning, Salman Rushdie emerged from his life in hiding and implored an audience at Columbia University not to forget that he remains hostage to an Iranian sentence of death. A1 WATER WORK FALLS BEHIND New York Citys program to upgrade its water mains, sewers and tunnels has fallen behind schedule. The Environmental Protection Department has failed to let more than $600 million in contracts -- almost half the money budgeted for the purpose. A1
Minor derailment at Grand Central causing delays.
NEW YORK (PIX11) ��� A minor derailment at Grand Central Terminal is causing delays and cancellations on several Metro-North lines Wednesday evening. According to the MTA, a train derailed inside the terminal, blocking��.
FRA Investigating Metro-North Derailment At Grand Central.
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) ��� U.S. Sens. Charles Schumer and Richard Blumenthal are calling on Metro-North to fully investigate Wednesday nights derailment of a train at Grand Central Terminal, saying more must be done��.
New Castle Now Mandates Its Esthetics
THE Town of New Castle has given itself sweeping new powers to mandate the kind of architectural style, lighting, landscaping, building and paving materials and commercial signs in renovations and new construction - even before a builder comes along with plans for a property. The new legislation, believed to be the first of its kind in the metropolitan suburbs, provides for what are known as area design plans. It was added to the local ordinances last month by the Town Board, which gave its appointed Planning Board authority to set the style for area designs. Lois Mitchell, the Town Supervisor, said the law will be used largely in business districts, although there is nothing in its wording to prevent its use in residential areas.
MEAT LOAF SERVED AS MINERS TURKEY; Only One Family, Among Many, Feasts at Indianola, Pa.-- Strikers See Long Fight One Family Not Representative MEAT LOAF SERVED AS MINERS TURKEY Thankful for Man Like Lewis
INDIANOLA, Pa., Nov. 28-- There was no turkey on the table when Joe Sargent and his wife and four children sat down to Thanksgiving dinner today. The Sargents ate meat loaf.. Familys Thanksgiving celebration described
Lift Bridge for Metro-North Trains Is Getting Big Repairs
The Harlem River Lift Bridge will undergo a $47.2 million overhaul that includes electrical upgrades and replacement cables to raise and lower the crossing.. Repairs and improvements on the Harlem River Lift Bridge, which was built 60 years ago and connects Manhattan and the Bronx, are scheduled to be finished in mid-March 2015 at cost of $47.2 million; overhaul is going on without disrupting the 700 Metro-North trains that cross structure daily.