CLOSINGS/DELAYS
Man pleads guilty in string of MS-13 killings that stunned New York suburbs
Read full article: Man pleads guilty in string of MS-13 killings that stunned New York suburbsA high-ranking member of an MS-13 gang clique in New York has pleaded guilty to racketeering and other federal charges in a case involving seven slayings, including the 2016 killings of two high school girls.
3 accused of creating ‘man cave’ under Grand Central station
Read full article: 3 accused of creating ‘man cave’ under Grand Central stationNEW YORK – Three railroad workers have been suspended for turning a storage room under New York's Grand Central Terminal into an unauthorized “man cave” with a television, a refrigerator, a microwave and a futon couch, officials said Thursday. A Metropolitan Transportation Authority investigation found that managers at Metro-North Railroad were unaware of the hideaway beneath Track 114. "Many a New Yorker has fantasized about kicking back with a cold beer in a prime piece of Manhattan real estate — especially one this close to good transportation,” MTA Inspector General Carolyn Pokorny said in a news release. “But few would have the chutzpah to commandeer a secret room beneath Grand Central Terminal.”Three Metro-North employees — a wireman, a carpenter foreman and an electrical foreman — were suspended without pay pending disciplinary hearings. Railroad officials said the space presented a fire hazard because rescue workers would have had difficulty accessing an unmapped room.