{"id":324871,"date":"2026-08-19T12:36:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T12:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/324871\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T12:36:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T12:36:29","slug":"amtrak-reopens-new-yorks-east-river-tunnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/324871\/","title":{"rendered":"Amtrak reopens New York\u2019s East River Tunnel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Fourteen years after Superstorm Sandy rendered it inoperable, Amtrak reopened New York\u2019s East River Tunnel Line 2 on Monday. The restoration process included several upgrades, including a new track and improved safety systems to the tunnel that\u00a0carries more than 450 Amtrak, Long Island Rail Road and NJ Transit trains daily.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">ABC7 NY reports that Superstorm Sandy flooded two of the four East River Tunnels with 14 million gallons of saltwater in 2012, reducing the Long Island Rail Road\u2019s carrying capacity by 20%. Reconstruction of the tunnel began in May 2025; Amtrak closed Line 2 for the entirety of the project. Amtrak will begin rehabilitation efforts on East River Tunnel Line 1, which Superstorm Sandy also decommissioned, this fall.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Read the full story, below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fourteen years after Superstorm Sandy rendered it inoperable, Amtrak reopened New York\u2019s East River Tunnel Line 2 on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-324871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324871","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=324871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}