Long Island Transportation MTA calls Amtrak's East River tunnel repair strategy 'extremely risky' One of the East River Tunnels being flooded during Superstorm Sandy in 2012. Credit: Amtrak ...

The East River Tunnel Rehabilitation project will tentatively get underway on May 23 instead of this Friday, Amtrak President Roger Harris told Hochul in a letter Tuesday.

Amtrak spokesman Jason Abrams said the problems stemmed from planned overnight repairs in Queens, just outside one of the four East River tunnels, that "went over the outage period." The issue was ...

The East River Tunnel, owned by Amtrak and first opened in 1910, consists of four tubes linking Manhattan and Queens. Two of the tubes primarily serve the LIRR, allowing its service to Penn Station.

May 02, 2025 01:40 PM Amtrak accuses MTA of spreading ‘misinformation’ on East River tunnel reconstruction Caroline Spivack Reprints Bloomberg ...