Amityville Village trustee Nick LaLota is proposing a transit-oriented district to promote residential development in a mostly industrial area near the village’s Long Island Rail Road station.

The first LIRR trains will run to Grand Central on Wednesday a whopping 15 years after construction on the $11.6 billion project to connect the railway to major transit hub began.

At LIRR stations - like the one in Amityville - there are no elevators for disabled individuals to get onto the platform above.

Nassau County officials want a full audit of Long Island Rail Road – saying taxpayers are forking $36.5 million a year to prop up the transit system with questionable results.

The LIRR doesn’t have enough train cars, federal regulators assessing the Grand Central Madison project said as early as 2017 — and with the MTA yet to award a contract for the commuter… ...

At LIRR stations - like the one in Amityville - there are no elevators for disabled individuals to get onto the platform above.