To encourage metro-tourism, the Hoyt-Schermerhorn Station in downtown Brooklyn will mount a mural tribute to Michael Jackson’s Bad video/18-minute Scorsese-direct film based on the Edmund Perry incident, as the station is where that particular crotch grabbing occurred.
In recent months, reports have surfaced that the NYPD has been going around issuing tickets to subway riders for everything from to placing a backpack on an empty seat of an empty train to having a sick pug on board. Many have cried foul over the city needlessly harassing otherwise law-abiding citizens during early morning commutes, but apparently they’re not stopping anytime soon. Read more »
Sure, there’s been a massive crater in downtown Manhattan for over eight years now and it will probably take till forever to build the so called Freedom Tower, but at least one company is taking advantage of the gross ineptitude at Ground Zero. Read more »
Last December, a small group of artists installed an unauthorized holiday display to raise straphangers’ spirits and spruce up a neglected corner of the Columbus Circle Subway Station. The budding tradition continues after today’s extremely early morning opening of the second annual “Holiday Gift to NYC Show.” Around 1:30 AM, eleven artists convened to turn a 200-foot long pedestrian tunnel at the Lexington Avenue/53rd Street Station into a public gallery. Read more »
On Saturday two men got into an argument over a seat on the D train in Midtown, so one of the two men whipped out a steak knife and stabbed the other man repeatedly to settle the argument, naturally. In the midst of the madness, one of the other passengers then pulled the emergency brake cord, causing the train to stall between the Rockefeller Center and 7th Avenue stops, trapping the other passengers inside the car with the knife-wielding crazy person while his victim died in a pool of his own blood. |NY Times|
Improv Everywhere went underground for their latest mission, turning an ordinary subway car into a moving photo studio. The public pranking comedy group claimed the MTA had hired them to photograph commuters for a straphanger yearbook. Despite the absurdity of their purported plan to shoot the millions of New Yorkers who ride the subway daily, they reportedly had no trouble convincing people on the 6 line to let their guard down long enough to pose for a portrait. Watch ideo of the “Subway Yearbook Photo” stunt after the jump. Read more »
A MTA subway operator not only allowed a young boy into the cab, but left him unattended, a witness to the Sunday joyride says. 53-year-old Nessa Hampton tells the Daily News that the motorwoman, now suspended along with the train’s conductor, left the kid at the controls as she stepped off the stopped 4 train to speak with a colleague at Union Square. “Suppose he touched something and the train started moving. There was no way this woman could have ran back to the train and stopped it. … She was risking people’s lives.” |NYDN|
Photo by Jules Cattie via NYDN
The 7 train is not only the cleanest, but also the best subway, according to the Straphangers Campaign’s latest report. “The 7 line’s cars broke down once every 163,000 miles,” nearly three times less than the C train, which took last place in study. |NYP|
If using Massimo Vignelli’s sought after seventies NYC Subway Map, or its modern update, as a wall hanging isn’t appealing, you can always wear it. This $250 silk dress by Francis is printed with the highly festishized map and sure to draw the attention of other straphangers be they ogling or lost. |2nd Avenue Sagas|
NYPD officers arrested an L train rider over “a 15lb pug that [she] took out of his tote bag for throwing up and overheating, ” but not before threatening to put the dog down and telling the owner, “If you’re going to act like a woman I’m going to treat you like a woman.” |Free Williamsburg|
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