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MTA announces shorter wait times for N and R trains
It's just one of several service enhancements happening this year.
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Christina Fan joined CBS2 News as a general assignment reporter in spring of 2019.
She has provided extensive coverage of the coronavirus pandemic's impact on Asian Americans, from the initial outbreak in Wuhan, China to the rise of COVID-related hate crimes locally. Following the murder of George Floyd in 2020, she covered the ensuing protests for weeks as demonstrators called for police and criminal justice reform in New York City.
Before joining WCBS, Christina spent three years at the ABC O&O in Fresno, California. She traveled across the state reporting on record-breaking wildfires, the Oroville dam crisis, as well as President Barack Obama's visit to Yosemite. Her career started at WOWK-TV in Charleston, West Virginia, where she shot, wrote and edited all her stories.
Christina graduated from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism with dual majors in Broadcast Journalism and International Studies. She is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and loves to travel. So far she's visited 24 countries across five continents.
Christina is proud to be from Central Jersey, where her parents still live. She is thrilled to be back home and visits her family every week, where she enjoys eating her mom's home-cooked meals and then tries burning off the calories by playing tennis. Christina is a diehard fan of Novak Djokovic.
It's just one of several service enhancements happening this year.
Families and community leaders told CBS New York the blaze on Sunday couldn't have come at a worse time.
The base fare for a subway or bus ride jumped from $2.75 to $2.90, the first fare hike in eight years.
Three Monmouth County school districts want teachers to notify parents if a student comes out as transgender.
Flames broke out just before 8 a.m. Tuesday in the basement of Grace Presbyterian Church in Montclair.
They say a temporary shelter at the Plainfield Performing Arts Center lacks privacy and many of the hotels offered are far away.
For the first time in the event's 41-year history, the president of the Dominican Republic was in attendance.
The state funeral for New Jersey Lt. Gov. Sheila Oliver was held at Newark's Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart.
The British Airways jet has been at the museum since 2003, and this was the first time it left for restoration work.
Port Authority workers are the latest to denounce the plan to toll drivers entering Manhattan below 60th Street.
As those who live in the area plead for stricter enforcement, vendors are pushing for leniency.
Subways, buses, Metro-North and the Long Island Rail Road are getting more expensive this year, too.
Police were responding to calls about a man with a knife threatening his family members.
Good Samaritans tackled the 20-year-old after he allegedly struck pedestrians and vehicles while trying to flee police.
A bill was introduced to decease speeding by forcing repeat offenders to install the device in their cars.