NYC Mayor Eric Adams begs feds to stop Amtrak’s planned 3-year East River Tunnel closure: ‘Refused to listen to reason’

All aboard the blame train!

Mayor Eric Adams jumped into the tunnel tug-of-war — blasting Amtrak’s East River shutdown plan and demanding feds step in before commuters are left stranded and steaming.

In a fiery letter to US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy Monday, Adams called Amtrak’s proposal to shutdown a train tunnel from Queens to Manhattan — which was approved by the MTA — a “misstep” that could derail service for millions of commuters and leave the entire system exposed to “shutdown risks” during the three-year project…

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