10.04.2016 Government Riverhead Ambulance Corps eyes former train station for new office The Riverhead train station hasn’t actually been a train station since 1972 and has been used only sporadically since then: as a soup kitchen for about a year, as...
08.22.2016 News LIRR riders can now purchase tickets through smartphone app Riders of the Long Island Rail Road will no longer have to scramble to buy tickets at the station in the waning seconds before the doors to their train...
06.28.2016 Police Man on tracks in Riverhead struck by LIRR train An intoxicated man who fell asleep on the railroad tracks was struck by a westbound Long Island Rail Road train in downtown Riverhead Tuesday afternoon, the second train incident in...
02.17.2016 Traffic LIRR scoot trains planned for the North Fork on hold Plans for so-called scoot trains, which were once envisioned as a way of increasing Long Island Rail Road service to the North Fork, have been put on hold after...
02.16.2016 Business Will LIRR ever restore year-round weekend service on North Fork? You can take a train from the North Fork to New York City on a Friday. But you’re not coming back until Monday right now.
01.17.2016 Government Big N.Y. State projects won’t reach East End As part of the buildup to his State of the State address and budget presentation Wednesday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo revealed a variety of initiatives last week designed to aid...
06.10.2015 Government MTA plans legal action against cab company over rent payments A little less than a year ago, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced it had finally found a tenant for the long-vacant Riverhead train station, which was built 105 years...
04.21.2015 Police Cops: Train collides with tractor in Laurel, one man injured A single-car Long Island Rail Road train collided with a tractor at a farm in Laurel Tuesday afternoon, according to Riverhead Police Lt. David Lessard.