STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The MTA will update the outdated service maps on the Staten Island Railway (SIR) train cars following commuter complaints. After attending an MTA subcommittee meeting on Dec ...

Anyway, the new subway map shows what the old maps have showed forever: Staten Island isn’t directly connected to the city subway system. Sure, we have the SIR. And that will take you to the ...

The new cars replace the aging R44 models that debuted on the line in 1973. Similarly, those train sets replaced ones that were also 50 years old during an era when the Staten Island Railway was ...

It took five subways, a ferry, a train, and four buses to get from the top of Queens to the bottom of Staten Island, and back. Normally, the trip by car is a little over an hour each way. But for me – ...

The Staten Island Railway unveiled its first set of new R211 cars Tuesday, which are scheduled to entirely replace the line's half-century old trains by the end of next year.

New train cars are coming to the Staten Island Railway for the first time in 50 years — but MTA officials couldn’t estimate when passengers will be able to ride them. Siu Ling Ko, the vice ...

The MTA unveiled five new R211 cars for the Staten Island Railway in October 2023. (Evan Simko-Bednarski / New York Daily News) In recent years, the current R-44 cars have been averaging fewer ...

The Staten Island Railway is a subsidiary of the MTA and operates on a similar schedule with the same fare rate of $2.75. Passengers traveling in between stops on the island from Tottenville up ...

The Staten Island Economic Development Corp., along with the borough's Chamber of Commerce, continues to press for light rail – and, often specifically, an extension of New Jersey's Hudson-Bergen ...

A total of 75 new Staten Island Railway cars are on the way. Photo Courtesy of Marc A. Hermann / MTA R211 subway cars were unveiled for the very first time back in 2017.