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  2. Lawmakers Urge MTA To Reopen Elmhurst LIRR Station

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    Traffic & Transit Lawmakers Urge MTA To Reopen Elmhurst LIRR Station Lawmakers are asking the LIRR interim president to reopen the station after it was shut down in 1960.

  3. 77 LIRR Employees Made More Than $250K Last Year - Patch

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    The number of LIRR employees who made more than $250,000 increased by nearly 50 percent from 2017 to 2018, according to payroll data found on the Empire Center for Public Policy's transparency ...

  4. 5 MTA Employees Accused Of Massive Overtime Scam, Feds Say

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    NEW YORK CITY — A Long Island Rail Road worker claimed 10 hours a day of overtime, earning $344,000 extra pay, while he actually went bowling.

  5. More Cops On LIRR, Metro-North Trains Amid Major ... - Patch

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    The unit will be made up of existing staff and is expected to be deployed in January, beginning their shifts at 5 a.m. at Long Island stations, then riding trains into New York City, before making ...

  6. Grand Central's Long-Awaited LIRR Service Starts Wednesday

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    NEW YORK CITY — A long-awaited plan to bring Long Island Rail Road trains to Grand Central Terminal is about to leave — or, rather, enter — the station.

  7. LIRR Workers Indicted In Connection To Overtime Scam: Feds

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    In 2019 Balestra made $348,522 as a foreman and Nugent made $350,056, also as a foreman. Both were among the highest-paid MTA employees. The two, along with Pizzonia, have been suspended without ...

  8. Taxi Driver Dies After LIRR Train Strikes Vehicle; 1 Injured ...

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    According to MTA police, the crash took place at about 12:45 p.m. Daniel Seagren, 49, of Ronkonkoma, a taxi driver for East End Transportation, was driving northbound on Wading River Road in ...

  9. History of the Long Island Rail Road - Wikipedia

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    By the 1910 opening of Penn Station, most of the lines in New York City had gained third rail, and the New York City-area electrification program was complete in 1913, with the Montauk Division as the only major holdout. [86] Electric coaches of the LIRR, ca. 1911