Patrick McGeehan

6 days ago | nytimes.com | Stefanos Chen |Patrick McGeehan

The head of the federal Department of Transportation said on Thursday that the Trump administration would take control of the renovation of Pennsylvania Station away from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The station, one of the busiest and also most maligned transit hubs in the world, has for decades been on the verge of a massive overhaul to remedy its cramped and dreary corridors. But the competing priorities of local, state and federal stakeholders have made progress difficult.

6 days ago | ourcommunitynow.com | Patrick McGeehan

Share Just as construction was starting on a massive wind farm off the coast of Long Island, the Trump administration ordered an immediate halt on Wednesday that could spell a serious setback for hopes of powering New York City with offshore wind.Doug Burgum, the interior secretary, called for the cessation of “all construction activities” on the Empire Wind project, which was designed to provide enough electricity to power about 500,000 homes in New York.On the first day of his new term in...

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Patrick McGeehan

New York's governor, Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, quickly responded that she would "fight this decision every step of the way." She called the secretary's move a "federal overreach" that she would not allow to stand. The order came two weeks after Representative Chris Smith, a Republican from New Jersey, asked Mr. Burgum in a letter to "do everything in your power" to stop what he called an "underhanded rush" to build the wind farm.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Patrick McGeehan

The aircraft was on a sightseeing flight when it suddenly broke apart in midair, its rotor blades falling separately toward the water. When rescue crews reached the passenger compartment of the helicopter that plunged into the Hudson River on Thursday, killing all six of its occupants, the aircraft was missing several critical components, including the rotor and blades that had kept it aloft.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Patrick McGeehan |Michael Rothfeld |Christopher Maag

The charter firm whose helicopter plunged into the Hudson River, killing the pilot and a family of five, had been struggling financially, records show. As federal investigators began the long job of examining what caused a sightseeing helicopter to crash into the Hudson River on Thursday, killing all six people on board, details began to emerge about the small company that made the doomed flight - and its operator's checkered history.