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LIRR Riders On Track To Have Access To Grand Central Terminal For First Time LIRR Riders On Track To Have Access To Grand Central Terminal For First Time
Lirr Riders On Track To Have Access To Grand Central Terminal For First Time Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) riders will soon have access to Grand Central Terminal for the first time, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced. After decades of delays, the bulk of construction at the East Side Access project is completed, with the concourses scheduled to be opened up by December 2022, the governor announced, marking the first time LIRR riders will be connected directly to the East Side in Manhattan. The project includes eight new tracks for the station and includes improvements to help ease the rush at Penn Station, making it easier to get to different parts of Manhattan dir…

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Tropical Storm Isaias Update: 100K Without Power On Long Island; Over 2M Outages On East Coast Tropical Storm Isaias Update: 100K Without Power On Long Island; Over 2M Outages On East Coast
Tropical Storm Isaias Update: 100K Without Power On Long Island; Over 2M Outages On East Coast Click here for a new, updated story - Tropical Storm Isaias: 320K Now Without Power On Long Island; Some LIRR Service Suspended Nearly 100,000 Long Islanders have been left without power as Tropical Storm Isaias sped through the region. PSEG Long Island crews were working to repair 2,346 active outages as of 4:15 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 4, which left 95,980 of its 1,162,375 customers without power. There were 71,135 (14.56 percent of their customers) outages reported in Nassau County, with another 24,068 (3.77 percent) outages in Suffolk County. An additional 777 outages were being repor…

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by Zak Failla