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Metro-North crash kills 6, injures 12

The train out of Grand Central Terminal was going northbound on the Harlem line when it struck a Jeep Cherokee that was stopped on the tracks when the railroad crossing gates came down on top of it. The driver got out to look at the back of the car, then got back in and drove forward when the train struck the Jeep, pushing it about 10 train-car lengths up the track.

$200 million upgrades to Grand Central unveiled

A developer would make the upgrades, including a new entrance on 42nd street to the Times Square shuttle platform; knocking out a wall to create a larger mezzanine near the Lexington Avenue line; and thinner columns that would let people slip more easily from the subway to the staircases, in exchange for city approval to build a 1.6 million-square-foot office building.

N.Y. MTA awards East Side Access contract

The contract, valued at more than $200,000, was awarded to Michels Corp. for work that will take place in the caverns and tunnels in the south segment of the future LIRR terminal below Grand Central.

East Side Access Update

One of the last production blasts involved in mining the tunnels and station caverns of the East Side Access project, an effort that will bring MTA Long Island Rail Road trains into Grand Central for the first time.

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