LIRR service will be suspended at 1 a.m. Monday, Gov. Kathy Hochul says
An eastbound train arrives at the Sayville LIRR station on Sunday. Credit: Thomas Hengge
Gov. Kathy Hochul said Sunday that all Long Island Rail Road service will be suspended, beginning at 1 a.m. Monday.
Hochul spokesperson Gordon Tepper said the suspension will last at least until the "morning rush."
State police will help enforce travel bans on all nonessential vehicles in Nassau and Suffolk counties from 9 p.m. Sunday through at least 9 a.m. Monday, the governor said at a news conference in Albany. Both counties had announced the travel bans earlier Sunday.
Hochul said she has also deployed 100 members of the National Guard, with 25 vehicles, to Long Island, New York City and the lower Hudson Valley, to help with any rescues and to assist medical and other essential workers getting to their jobs. More than 2,000 state plows were salting and preparing roads for the storm.
"Whatever you need, any groceries, any medicines you need to be refilled at the pharmacy, any pet food you need to have — do it right now, because ... you may not be on the roads after nine o'clock tonight," the governor said.
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