Category Archives: LIRR

Cuomo Closes LIRR Disability Investigation

Posted on March 23, 2010 by admin

A year and a half after a giant NY Times investigative report on extraordinarily high disability claims among retiring LIRR employees, the New York attorney general has closed its investigation, reports the Times. Andrew Cuomo issued 108 subpoenas related to … Continue reading →

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SLATE: Why Penn Station’s Signs Suck

Posted on March 3, 2010 by admin

Slate.com has a a fun story penned by Julia Turner on yet another reason to dislike Penn Station–impossible-to-follow signs. Penn Station’s signage got 2.5 stars on Yelp.com (“Without a doubt, one of the poorest and most confusing arrangements for signage … Continue reading →

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LIRR Disability Coach Kreuder Cleared of Most Charges

Posted on December 14, 2009 by TJ

Frederick Kreuder, charged with taking money from LIRR employees to help them get lucrative disability benefits, was cleared of most, not all, charges by a Long Island judge Friday. Kreuder reportedly got $1,000 for his services, which the NY Times … Continue reading →

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All That You Can Leave Behind

Posted on October 9, 2009 by TJ

Fun little piece in yesterday’s NY Times about the Long Island Railroad lost and found at Penn Station. Like a time capsule, what’s left on the train is often a good indicator of what the societal trends are at a … Continue reading →

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Clever Commute Gets Cleverer

Posted on October 6, 2009 by TJ

The digital offerings designed to make commuting life easier continue to increase. There’s the Metro-North timetable app over at StationStops.com that the MTA is not all that excited about, and there’s the crowd-sourcing Clever Commute service, where riders share delays … Continue reading →

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The B-I-T-C-H is Back

Posted on October 1, 2009 by TJ

Some transit-related eavesdroppings from Overheard in New York. Loud black girl on cell phone: You know where the train station is, where all them homeless people live? Yeah, that’s where I go get my hair done. She doesn’t fuck my … Continue reading →

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Weebles Wobble, But They Don’t Get Electrocuted

Posted on September 14, 2009 by TJ

The once-glorious, still scrappy NY Press has an alternately amusing/disturbing essay about a certain family’s predisposition to suicide–no, not the Hemingways or the Plaths–and how the author often sought out trains to expedite her trip to the sweet hereafter. Dorri … Continue reading →

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Naked, Drunken, Puking Riders on LIRR

Posted on August 19, 2009 by TJ

Fox 5 dedicated a lengthy news story last night to the boozy Sunday night ride to the city on a certain Long Island Railroad train. It seems a major beer blowout at the Boardy Barn in Hampton Bays wraps up … Continue reading →

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Beach Trips Without Traffic…Or Beach

Posted on August 18, 2009 by TJ

Since it’s the season of beach trips and the like, reader Harvey shares a fun beach getaway on the train for people who don’t like the beach. He writes: It’s the LIRR Sunken Forest package, which combines an interesting train … Continue reading →

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Engineer Lets Rider Drive LIRR Train

Posted on August 5, 2009 by TJ

Both an LIRR engineer and a civilian face reckless endangerment charges after the engineer, Ronald Cabrera, allegedly let the rider, William Kutsch, operate the train July 2. And since Kutsch apparently would not get enough of a kick out of … Continue reading →

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