The MTA has shelled out around $5 million in the past year for workers to patrol a Brooklyn bus depot on the lookout for open flames because its sprinkler system is on the fritz, agency sources said Monday.
An MTA contractor based in Queens has reached a settlement with the city over thousands of dollars in wage theft during construction work on two subway
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As paramedics pulled the body of 14-year-old subway surfer Briyan Crespo from a Brooklyn rail bed, his phone rang over and over as his worried mother tried to reach him. “He wasn’t picking up,” Briyan’s devastated mom, Sonia, speaking in Spanish, told the Daily News in an exclusive interview. “I left messages saying, ‘Where are you? Answer me!’” Crespo was riding atop a Manhattan-bound L train .