Albany, here we come!

The MTA’s suburban commuter rail, Metro-North Railroad, will soon go from Grand Central Terminal to Albany some 150 miles north, Gov. Kathy Hochul said on Monday. It will mark a historic return of service to the state’s capital region for the first time in nearly 60 years.

Metro-North’s predecessor on the Hudson Line, the New York Central Railroad, previously ran service between Grand Central and Albany until 1967. The restored, once-a-day round-trip service will launch in the spring of 2026.

Hochul said the planned service is part of a series of improvements to rail service on the Empire Service Corridor, a rail corridor which mostly follows the Hudson River, between Albany and NYC.

While the service will compete with federally owned Amtrak, which offers Albany t

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