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LONG ISLAND, NY — A total of 43 LIRR employees earned more than $250,000 in 2020, according to payroll data released by the Empire Center for Public Policy. Of those, 19 workers topped $300,000 ...
The LIRR's steam passenger locomotives were modernized from 1901 to 1906, and by 1927, it was the first Class I railroad to replace all its wood passenger cars with steel. [2] In 1926, the LIRR was the first U.S. railroad to begin using diesel locomotives. The last steam locomotive was a G5s operated until 1955. [2]
On December 7, 1993, a mass shooting occurred aboard a Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) train in Garden City Park, New York, United States. As the train arrived at the Merillon Avenue station, passenger Colin Ferguson began firing at other passengers with a semi-automatic pistol. Six of the victims were killed and nineteen others were wounded ...
Points denote new stations. East Side Access ( ESA) is a public works project in New York City that extended the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) two miles from its Main Line in Queens to the new Grand Central Madison station under Grand Central Terminal on Manhattan 's East Side.
LIRR President Philip Eng told Newsday Rosati, who made $75,000 in 2019 according to the Empire Center, is being investigated for possible violations of the organization's code of conduct.
The residential care center housed on the former Kings Park Psychiatric Center grounds will be phased out by Nov. 2, with remaining patients being sent to Pilgrim Psychiatric Center in Brentwood ...
Suozzi noted that he and his colleagues in Congress supported federal aid for the MTA/LIRR to prevent “drastic service cuts like the one implemented this week,” by securing $8 billion in aid ...