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Debris on the tracks at 50th Street are causing major delays and reroutings on the 1, 2 and 3 lines on Thursday morning.

The MTA is looking into ways to ease the rush-hour crush, and the latest idea is to remove seats from subway cars to create more overall room in the car.

The MTA plans to bring Select Bus Service to the M79 next year to speed service, the agency said last week, but one stop will have to be removed.

If you've been in the 86th Street subway station waiting for the 1 train, this should come as no surprise: the station is

Have you entered a disgustingly hot 1 train car this summer? You're definitely not alone. The train has been plagued by AC outages all summer, because the

A proposal to split the M5 bus route, which runs through the Upper West Side could speed bus trips, but it has some residents concerned

A public bus without a driver slid downhill at the busy intersection 96th street and West End Avenue around 3 p.m. on Wednesday, smashing into a

Councilman Mark Levine wants the MTA to consider reopening some of the closed exits at stations in the city, including several on the Upper West Side.

The MTA is working on the track for the 1 train next week, and will be shutting the line down North of 96th street up to Dyckman Street after 10 p.m. until

We've received several emails from commuters angry that the MTA moved a bus stop across Broadway, from the West to the East Side. It's apparently

Metro-North has been eying a plan to bring train from the Hudson Valley to the West side of Manhattan and back again for decades, without any action. But those plans could start moving forward in the next few years, with train stations coming to the Upper West Side and near ...

The MTA is the agency that New Yorkers love to hate, in part because bus and subway fares keep going up. But the MTA recently introduced a service that could save you quite a bit of time.

December 20, 2012 Weather: Cloudy, High of 42 Degrees.

Governor Cuomo has decided to shut down MTA subway, bus and commuter train service starting at 7 p.m. as Hurricane Sandy approaches. Subways will start shutting down at 7, and buses will start shutting down at 9. Service could be down for days: MTA Chairman Joseph Lhota said it will ...

August 23, 2012 Weather: Partly Cloudy, High of 84 Degrees.

July 26, 2012 Weather: Scattered Thunderstorms, High of 91 Degrees.

The MTA is looking for a private real estate company to help it rent out 13 stores that it created as part of a massive renovation of the Columbus Circle subway station. The station gets lots of traffic -- 68,000 people a day, only some of whom choose to pee ...

March 12, 2012 Weather: Mostly Sunny, High of 68 Degrees.

This week, the 1, 2, and 3 will be shut down below 34th Street from Monday through Friday from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. to allow for work on the track. The MTA is shutting the subways down entirely so it can get the work done faster and more safely, ...

The experiment that began this week allowing people to use their cell phones inside four Chelsea subway stations (but not in the trains themselves, and only on AT&T and T-Mobile) will be spreading to every station on the Upper West Side south of 96th Street within a year, the MTA ...