Stephen Nessen
Transportation Reporter and Photographer at WNYC (New York, NY)
Transportation Reporter and Photographer at Gothamist
Beats, Rhymes and Rails: WNYC transportation reporter/photographer/record collector -- member of #TransitCognoscenti -- Email tips: [email protected]
Articles
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6 days ago |
gothamist.com | Stephen Nessen |Ramsey Khalifeh
President Trump is taking over the reconstruction of Penn Station and kicking the MTA off the project, federal transportation officials announced Thursday. The move was laid out in a letter to MTA Chair Janno Lieber from Federal Railroad Administration chief counsel Kyle Fields, who said the work will instead be overseen by Amtrak, which owns Penn Station. “There is no reason to delegate leadership of this important project,” U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy wrote in a statement.
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1 week ago |
gothamist.com | Clayton Guse |Stephen Nessen
This column originally appeared in On The Way, a weekly newsletter covering everything you need to know about NYC-area transportation. Sign up to get the full version, which includes answers to reader questions, trivia, service changes and more, in your inbox every Thursday.
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1 week ago |
gothamist.com | Liam Quigley |Stephen Nessen
Authorities are still searching for the rotors attached to a tourist helicopter that plunged into the Hudson River, killing all six people aboard, officials said Friday. National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy cautioned that the investigation into the Thursday crash was in its earliest stages.
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2 weeks ago |
gothamist.com | Stephen Nessen
New Jersey Transit officials announced a new initiative on Wednesday that aims to reduce the homeless population at Newark Penn Station by building new housing options near the train hub. Transportation leaders said they’re partnering with local elected officials as well as a group of corporations to spend $6 million to renovate 200 apartments near the station into transitional housing for homeless people.
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2 weeks ago |
gothamist.com | Stephen Nessen
In one of the oldest railroad stories, folk legend John Henry races against a machine hammering holes for the construction of a railroad tunnel, only to die from exhaustion after just barely beating the machine. In the modern version of this tale, Google’s artificial intelligence algorithm could go up against the experienced ear of an MTA track maintainer.
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