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MTA Unveils Next-Generation Subway Cars

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The next generation of subway cars is poised to hit the rails.

MTA unveiled their long-awaited R211 subway cars. Officials literally pulled a curtain to reveal the city’s first look at what could be a 1,600-car fleet crisscrossing subway lines.

Passenger service with the cars likely won’t start until September 2022, said Demetrius Crichlow, executive vice president and COO of New York City Transit. “We start qualifying and testing within the next few weeks, ...

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The Subway is back 24/7

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Round-the-clock subway service in New York City resumed May 17 after more than a year of late-night, pandemic-related closures.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo made the announcement in late April wrapped it into a broader swath of reopening announcements that end most pandemic-related capacity limits and eliminate restaurant curfews.

The city that never sleeps is slowly—but surely—living up to its name again and waking up from the COVID-19 pandemic, but so should the subway system—and ASAP,” Sen.Schumer said in a statement.

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What Is New York City Getting From the American Rescue Plan?

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President Joe Biden has signed the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, the third pandemic-era stimulus and, potentially, one of the most consequential economic packages in U.S. history. Passed by Congress and it also includes billions of dollars that will go directly to New York City.

To be precise, it is 6 million that will be used in different ways like Stimulus Checks, Child Tax Credit, MTA Relief and Vaccines.

De Blasio has called the stimulus a “game changer” for ...

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