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 ...

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 ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The Staten Island Railway (SIR) is rolling into the future, one train car at a time. On Tuesday morning, the newest train for the SIR departed from Platform 5 at the St ...

Staten Island’s long-suffering commuters were languishing in dilapidated 50-year-old train cars, the oldest in the system, until Oct. 8, when the first batch of sleek, modern R211 train cars ...

For the first time since the Richard Nixon administration, the Staten Island Railway is getting new subway cars. The MTA announced Tuesday that five current train cars that have been in use on the ...

Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. (PIX11) – New train cars were introduced on Staten Island for the first time in more than 50 years ...

failure-prone train cars incensed Staten Islanders. “Rather than asking questions about how we can improve the commute for people on Staten Island . . . their mindset is, ‘How are we gonna ...