Gov. Cuomo and the MTA announced Thursday a new L train subway tunnel design will eliminate a full shut down in April as previously planned — avoiding one of the biggest transit disruptions ever to New Yorkers.
"No L-pocalypse," acting MTA chairman Fernando Ferrer said.
The previously anticipated 15-month shutdown -- which some have dubbed the L-pocalypse -- was set to begin in three months, affecting 225,000 people who use the subway line to commute between Manhattan and Brooklyn.
Anchor Natalie Pasquarella also reports on a racist photo shared online at an upstate New York school, a mother who tried to poison her husband and an arrest in a bagel tantrum in Brooklyn.
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