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In 2008, more than 90 percent of Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) retirees were receiving occupational disability payments. [12] A former LIRR pension department manager was arrested and charged with official misconduct for allegedly "taking money to help railroad employees find a doctor and fill out paperwork for federal disability payments". [13]
In 2003, the LIRR and Metro-North started a pilot program in which passengers traveling within New York City were allowed to buy one-way tickets for $2.50. [94] The special reduced-fare CityTicket, proposed by the New York City Transit Riders Council, [94] was formally introduced in 2004. [95]
[20]: 1221 On May 1, 1882, the NY&MB was acquired by the New York, Brooklyn and Manhattan Beach Railroad (NYB&MB), transferring the lease of the G&ER's property. On that date, the NYB&MB leased its property and subleased the G&ER to the LIRR for 99 years. [10]
Former Neck Road LIRR station along the east side of the BMT Brighton Line in Homecrest, Brooklyn. The New York, Bay Ridge and Jamaica Railroad, New York and Manhattan Beach Railroad, and Long Island City and Manhattan Beach Railroad merged on August 27, 1885 to form the New York, Brooklyn and Manhattan Beach Railway. [4]
The LIRR was operated by the Pennsylvania Railroad from 1928 to 1949. The people from Smucker and Delatour through Wyer were trustees rather than presidents, as the LIRR was in Chapter 77 bankruptcy. David E. Smucker and H.L. Delatour: 1949-1950; William H. Draper: 1950-1951; William Wyer: 1951-1954; Walter S. Franklin: 1954-1955; Thomas M ...
Date opened Date closed Connections and notes 3 Jamaica, Queens: Hillside Facility: July 22, 1991 [25] Employees-only station Hollis, Queens: Hollis: 11.5 (18.5) 1885 New York City Bus: Q2, Q3 MTA Bus: Q110: Queens Village, Queens: Bellaire: 1837 1972 Originally named Flushing Avenue, then Brushville, then Interstate Park, then Brushville Road ...
The transit workers' contract was up for renewal in April 1980. Negotiations began on February 4, with the TWU initially demanding a 21-month contract with a 30% wage increase; they justified the hike by claiming that the cost of living had gone up 53% since the last contract negotiation, and their contract did not account for changes in the cost of living. [1]
The station house. Great Neck is a station on the Long Island Rail Road's Port Washington Branch in the Village of Great Neck Plaza, Nassau County, New York.The station is located at Middle Neck Road (CR 11) and Station Plaza at Great Neck Road, 0.25 miles (0.40 km) north of Northern Boulevard (NY 25A) and 15.9 miles (25.6 km) from Pennsylvania Station in Midtown Manhattan.