Schumer sends warning on commuter benefit
Photo credit: Howard Schnapp | Senator Charles Schumer at the Mineola LIRR station. (Oct. 10, 2011)
A pretax benefit that gives Long Island Rail Road commuters and other public-transit users a monthly price break will expire Dec. 31 unless the program is extended, Sen. Charles Schumer warned Monday.
Schumer (D-N.Y.), at a news conference at Grand Central Terminal, said about 500,000 people in the metropolitan area get the commuter benefit, which now covers up to $230 a month -- deducted...
