Tag: Subways
Quick: you’re in a hurry, standing on the J Train platform headed towards Canal Street. You’re going on a date on the Upper East Side, so you’ll need to transfer to the 6 train when you get there. Where do you stand so that when you get there, you don’t have far to go? A […]
If there are no trash cans in subway stations, people won’t litter there — that’s the MTA’s strange logic, anyway. The transit authority announced it will expand a pilot program that saw garbage receptacles removed from 10 stations to include 29 stops along the J and M lines. The J will soon be completely can-less, […]
Snowy weather provides optimal conditions for graffiti artists to get up and lots of them have been using the recent winter storms to do just that. But they’re not just hitting walls and roll-down gates. They’re painting the holy grail of graffiti: New York City subway cars. UPDATE: Another train was painted with a Spy […]
In a video published this week, TJ Mizell and his crew hop aboard the J train at Delancey Street/Essex Street and ride it across the Williamsburg Bridge to Marcy Avenue. While they’re traveling Mizell — son of the legendary Jam Master Jay — gets behind the decks, slicing and dicing Jay-Z’s “Tom Ford” and “Show […]
Good news for watchers of the Second Avenue Subway: progress! The 80-year-old project received its first-ever shipment of rails today, a cargo that will be stored in a “cavern” at 96th Street until further notice, according to the New York Times. Okay, it isn’t much, but it does look like the MTA is on track to hit […]
The Straphangers Campaign has completed the latest installment of its annual study of subway announcements, and the R train is still the worst. Forty-four percent of messages on that line were either not understandable or not accurate–just about the same rate the line was operating at last year. The L and the Q, on the […]
That moment–when you come above ground onto the Manhattan Bridge on the N train, or you pull into 14th Street on the A, and you’re frantically refreshing your Twitter and Instagram feeds to give yourself something new to look at for the next 10 minutes–may soon be a thing of the past. MTA chairman Thomas F. […]
A pair of troublesome kittens that caused some major delays for two subway lines in Brooklyn were eventually caught on Thursday evening and sent to Animal Care and Control in East New York. The felines, named Arthur (left) and August (right), are “approximately 8 weeks old” and are doing just fine according to AC&C. Pretty […]
A new study confirms what many of you may already know to be true: New York is home to the longest commutes in the country on average. Yes, even worse than Los Angeles. New Yorkers spend an average of 48 minutes each way when heading to work–13 minutes more than the national average. The report […]
Hot on the heels of the news that the MTA had “Roosevelt” spelled incorrectly at the 82nd Street 7 Train stop in Queens, here’s another typo, courtesy of DNAinfo: “Schermerhorn” is spelled “Schermehorn” on one outdoor sign at the Hoyt-Schermerhorn A/C/G stop in Fort Greene. Granted, this one’s a little easier to excuse than “Roosvelt.” […]
