The subway’s forgotten borough entered the 21st century Tuesday, as the first set of new R-211 train cars entered passenger service on the Staten Island Railway. The cars — a variant of the R ...

New train cars are coming to the Staten Island Railway for the first time in 50 years — but MTA officials couldn’t estimate when passengers will be able to ride them. Siu Ling Ko, the vice ...

The MTA on Tuesday rolled out new train cars on the Staten Island Railway for the first time in 50 years. Transit officials christened the new cars — called R211s — during an inaugural ride ...

(Photo by Evan Simko-Bednarski) The Staten Island Railway unveiled its first set of new R211 cars Tuesday, which are scheduled to entirely replace the line’s half-century old trains by the end ...

The Staten Island Railway should be stripped of promised new trains over the borough’s vocal opposition to the now-paused congestion-pricing program, an MTA board member suggested. Plans call ...

The MTA is rolling out new R211 subway cars to run on the Staten Island Railway, the agency announced on Tuesday. The cars were transported on flatbed trucks from Brooklyn to their current ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The Staten Island Railway (SIR) should get new train cars before the end of 2024, but one MTA board member questioned whether the Island should have them. On Monday ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – A funny thing happened when a half-century-old Staten Island Railway car was earmarked for the scrap heap: it got defaced with graffiti. Staten Islanders traveling on Bay ...

SOS works by identifying homeless individuals on the Staten Island Railway, Staten Island Ferry and other major hubs in the borough to connect them with the services they need. The expansion of ...

The Staten Island Railway’s cars are long overdue for an upgrade. Cars currently running on the system were introduced over 50 years ago, but they are soon going to be replaced. This week ...