{"id":312579,"date":"2026-08-03T16:09:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T16:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/312579\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T16:09:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T16:09:20","slug":"news-12-long-island-178","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/312579\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Long Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Officials say there are delays and cancellations on LIRR Port Jefferson branch after train struck downed tree near Smithtown.<\/p>\n<p>There is one westbound cancellation and delays this morning on the Port Jefferson Branch after a train struck a downed tree on the tracks east of Smithtown.<\/p>\n<p>The 4:51 a.m. train from Port Jefferson to Long Island City has been canceled in Smithtown.<\/p>\n<p>According to officials, riders will be accommodated by the 5:16 a.m. train from Port Jefferson to Long Island City after our crews safely clear debris from the tracks.<\/p>\n<p>The 5:16 a.m. train from Port Jefferson to Long Island City is delayed prior to departure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officials say there are delays and cancellations on LIRR Port Jefferson branch after train struck downed tree near&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-312579","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\/312579","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=312579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}