Amtrak's East River Tunnel project​ is facing pushback from other transit officials and New York elected leaders.

Once the project does kick off, Amtrak will close for repair one of the four East River tunnels that connects Manhattan’s Penn Station to Queens, forcing the MTA, Amtrak and New Jersey Transit ...

The single tube closure, slated to last 10 days, will start a two-and-a-half year repair project that will reduce the East River Tunnel’s train capacity by 25%.

Amtrak’s project to rehabilitate the East River Tunnels between Manhattan and Queens on the Northeast Corridor is under way, ...

All told, the work will keep one tube of the East River Tunnel that connects riders to Penn Station — used daily by Amtrak, Long Island Rail Road and New Jersey Transit — out of service ...

Amtrak has kicked off the first long-term track outage in support of the East River Tunnel Rehabilitation Project that will ...

Amtrak has commenced long-term work on the East River Tunnel Rehabilitation Project, which will restore two damaged tunnel ...

Skanska and E-J Electric Installation Co. crews will overhaul the century-old rail tubes that Hurricane Sandy damaged in 2012 ...

To illustrate the major repairs needed in one of Amtrak’s East River tunnels, a top railroad official only needed to brush his hands along a piece of metal. “This is 130-year-old steel ...

Long Islanders may finally get a direct train to D.C.—no Penn Station chaos required ...