The Long Island Rail Road was hit with delays and disruptions during the Wednesday morning commute into New York City.The LIRR said the issues stemmed from an Amtrak power problem in a tube of the East River Tunnel,

In a letter to Gov. Kathy Hochul, the head of Amtrak defends the agency's $1.6 billion effort to repair Superstorm Sandy damage in two of the four tunnels.

In a letter to U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, Adams requested that Duffy force Amtrak to perform repairs on the Hurricane Sandy-damaged tunnels on nights and weekends. Amtrak plans to shut down the two East River tunnels, one at a time, over three years.