Ramsey Khalifeh

Boston, New York

Transportation Beat Reporter at WNYC (New York, NY)

Reporter, Transportation at Gothamist

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NYC won't see a sunset before 8 p.m. for next 3 months

3 days ago | gothamist.com | Ramsey Khalifeh

New Yorkers praised the heavens on Sunday after realizing the city would not see a sunset before 8 p.m. until mid-August. The five boroughs crossed the cherished daylight threshold over the weekend, which was filled with sunny skies and the promise of better days ahead. The National Weather Service confirmed the sun would not set in New York City before 8 p.m. until Aug. 11.
Feds order ground stop at Newark as meltdown continues at NJ airport

3 days ago | gothamist.com | Ramsey Khalifeh

Newark Liberty International Airport saw another meltdown Sunday morning after the Federal Aviation Administration ordered a ground stop at the travel hub. The feds wrote in a notice that they issued the order because they faced a shortage of air traffic controllers in Philadelphia, where flights are directed in and out of Newark. Repeated equipment malfunctions in recent weeks have caused employees at the facility to go on trauma leave.
A train service returns to the Rockaways this month

1 week ago | gothamist.com | Ramsey Khalifeh

The A train is returning to the Rockaways — just in time for beach season — following a four-month shutdown of subway service to the peninsula. The MTA said regular service will resume on May 19 for the more than 9,000 daily commuters going to and from the Rockaways. The shutdown, which began in January, allowed the MTA to perform structural repairs to the Broad Channel Bridge and to demolish and replace the century-old Hammels Wye viaduct crossing Jamaica Bay.
Managing flights at Newark is so bad that air traffic controllers go on trauma leave

1 week ago | gothamist.com | Ramsey Khalifeh |Stephen Nessen

Managing flights at Newark Liberty International Airport has gotten so bad that some air traffic controllers have gone on trauma leave, the national air traffic controllers union and Federal Aviation Administration said, amid mounting calls to urgently address technical problems causing rampant delays and cancellations. More than 400 flights in and out of the airport were either delayed or canceled Monday morning.
Brooklyn school tied to Jay-Z investigated after students racked up surprise debt

1 week ago | gothamist.com | Ramsey Khalifeh

The city’s consumer protection agency is investigating LIU-Brooklyn following a Gothamist report on scholarship students at the Roc Nation School of Music who say they owe the university thousands of dollars tied to unexpected charges. Last month, Gothamist reported that at least a dozen scholarship students enrolled in the Jay-Z-backed music school owed anywhere from $5,000 to $39,000.
NYC bodegas to be equipped with panic buttons that buzz NYPD

1 week ago | gothamist.com | Ramsey Khalifeh

New York City officials will install panic buttons in 500 bodegas with the highest levels of crime to allow employees to immediately call the police during an emergency, Mayor Eric Adams announced Sunday. The “SilentShield” panic buttons should be installed in the coming months through a $1.6 million emergency grant, Adams said. The move came one day after a man was fatally stabbed to death in a Harlem bodega.
NYC cultural institutions scrambling after Trump admin guts arts funding

1 week ago | gothamist.com | Ramsey Khalifeh

New York City cultural institutions are reeling from the Trump administration’s abrupt withdrawal of National Endowment for the Arts funding, complicating upcoming summer productions. The full scope of the affected funding was unclear. The National Endowment for the Arts awarded $8.5 million to 326 arts groups in New York for fiscal year 2025.
NJ Transit says riders should work from home if engineers go on strike

2 weeks ago | gothamist.com | Ramsey Khalifeh

NJ Transit riders on Wednesday were urged to work from home if Garden State locomotive engineers make good on a threat to strike in mid-May, which would shut down the agency’s commuter rail service that carries roughly 350,000 daily passengers. Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers members earlier this month rejected a tentative agreement between the union’s leadership and NJ Transit, allowing for a strike as early as May 16.
MTA to begin replacing NYC's subway turnstiles with modern fare gates

2 weeks ago | gothamist.com | Ramsey Khalifeh

The MTA plans to replace subway turnstiles with modern gates at 20 subway stations later this year, part of a push to crack down on fare evasion that officials say costs the agency more than $700 million every year. Transit officials during a committee meeting on Monday laid out a plan to test out new fare gate designs from four different companies at the select group of stations.
Shootings reach historic low in NYC, says Mayor Adams

2 weeks ago | gothamist.com | Ramsey Khalifeh

Mayor Eric Adams on Sunday celebrated a sharp drop in gun violence across the five boroughs, and said New York City now sees fewer shootings than any other point in modern history. “For five straight quarters we've had decreases in gun violence, but this quarter, we had the lowest number of shootings in recorded history,” Adams said on a WBLS appearance Sunday morning. NYPD data shows shooting incidents fell by 23% during the first three months of 2025 from the same period last year.