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A closed entrance to the 45th Street station in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.. The 2005 New York City transit strike, held from December 20 through 22, 2005, was the third strike ever by the Transport Workers Union Local 100 against New York City's Transit Authority and involved between 32,000 and 34,000 strikers.
Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co., 248 N.Y. 339, 162 N.E. 99 (1928), is a leading case in American tort law on the question of liability to an unforeseeable plaintiff.The case was heard by the New York Court of Appeals, the highest state court in New York; its opinion was written by Chief Judge Benjamin Cardozo, a leading figure in the development of American common law and later a United ...
The Jamaica station is a major train station of the Long Island Rail Road located in Jamaica, Queens, New York City.With weekday ridership exceeding 200,000 passengers, [8] it is the largest transit hub on Long Island, the fourth-busiest rail station in North America, and the second-busiest station that exclusively serves commuter traffic.
This was actually the LIRR's second strike in four months, [10] with the first one having occurred in December 1979. [11] This strike also revolved around a lack of pay. [ 10 ] Because of the strike, the remaining operating transit agencies in the area, Conrail and PATH , had increased ridership, and bridges and tunnels into Manhattan saw more ...
Islip Town officials have approved a $199,378 contract agreement for a engineering feasibility study on establishing a sewer district for the communities of Bayport, Sayville, West Sayville ...
The low numbers at Laurel forced the railroad to take action. As early as 1925, the LIRR petitioned the New York State Public Service Commission (PSC) to allow for the discontinuation of its Laurel station agent, but the PSC denied the request on July 14, 1925. The LIRR finally won their request in May 1938 and was allowed to close the Laurel ...
As part of its program to upgrade all stations to high-level platforms, the LIRR relocated the functional portion of Speonk station between 1996 and 1997. A new platform was built on the west side of North Phillips Avenue, along with a new parking lot; the aforementioned station house and former low-level platform were located to the east.
The station became part of the LIRR system in 1909, when the NY&LB merged with the LIRR. The original station house was razed in 1942. On December 11, 1951, the station was relocated to its current address and combined with the former Atlantic Avenue station (see below). Access to the NICE n36 bus was available until April 9, 2017.