{"id":355685,"date":"2026-09-24T13:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T13:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/355685\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T13:36:09","slug":"lirr-disruption-snarls-service-during-unga-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/355685\/","title":{"rendered":"LIRR disruption snarls service during UNGA week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During a week when Manhattan traffic is already snarled by the United Nations General Assembly, many New Yorkers are relying more heavily on public transit.<\/p>\n<p>That made a disruption on the Long Island Rail Road particularly unwelcome Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Downed utility lines between Hicksville and Farmingdale caused major service disruptions, creating a ripple effect at LIRR hubs including Jamaica, Grand Central Madison and Penn Station.<\/p>\n<p>The utility lines have since been cleared and service has been restored, though riders were warned to expect some residual delays Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>LIRR President Rob Free joined \u201cMornings On 1\u201d Thursday with an update on the disruption.<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During a week when Manhattan traffic is already snarled by the United Nations General Assembly, many New Yorkers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2274,297,2275,9,24,11,10,12,1103,296,200],"class_list":["post-355685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-app-mornings-on-1","tag-app-traffic-and-transit","tag-mornings-on-1","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-news","tag-spectrum-news-ny1","tag-traffic-and-transit","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355685","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=355685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}