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

Before Amtrak starts its $1.6 billion project to repair the East River Tunnels damaged in Superstorm Sandy, CBS News New York got a rare look inside the tubes hundreds of feet below the surface.

After inspecting and making spot repairs to the 115-year-old East River tunnels, Amtrak says it needs to fully shut down tunnels for long-term fixes. The work was supposed to start in November ...

Today, against the urgent pleas of New York leaders across the political spectrum, from Gov. Hochul to Mayor Adams to Nassau ...

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 ...

It’s off the rails. Amtrak will push back the start of its three-year East River Tunnel closures by two weeks after Mayor Eric Adams, Gov. Kathy Hochul and other pols blasted the shutdown as ...

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

Amtrak will shut down one of four tubes that make up the East River Tunnel beginning Friday night, kicking off a two-and-a-half-year reconstruction of the tunnel. The project has faced staunch ...