{"id":236513,"date":"2026-05-19T10:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T10:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/236513\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T10:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T10:34:14","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-brooklyn-commuters-take-a-hit-as-lirr-strike-continues-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/236513\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Brooklyn Commuters Take A Hit As Lirr Strike Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The MTA and unions with the Long Island Rail Road reached a deal Monday evening, ending the strike.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Gov. Kathy Hochul posted on X, saying LIRR service will resume at noon on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The MTA warned riders that the LIRR shutdown would cause severe road congestion and delays to the nearly 300,000 daily passengers.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Officials say service on the four main lines will resume at noon and full service will come back around 4 p.m. on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">While neither the MTA nor the unions have given specific details about the deal yet, the main point of contention was how much of a pay increase workers will get in the fourth year of the contract.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">On Monday night, Hochul claimed a fair deal was reached that adequately pays workers and doesn&#8217;t cost the MTA, taxpayers, or riders.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">SEE PREVIOUS COVERAGE:<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The MTA says it will still be offering select bus service Tuesday morning. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">As the suspensions come to a close, the Attorney General&#8217;s Office says people should keep an eye out for price gouging on things like rideshare services, car rentals, etc. <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/formsnym.ag.ny.gov\/OAGOnlineSubmissionForm\/faces\/OAGPGCHome\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">You can report it here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The MTA and unions with the Long Island Rail Road reached a deal Monday evening, ending the strike.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-236513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}