Tag: F Train
A Brooklyn man received a ticket in February for moving between subway cars while the train was in motion to escape another man urinating in the car. Now he’s going all the way to Brooklyn Supreme Court to fight the $75 charge, DNAinfo reports. On February 17, Michael Kneitel was stopped and ticketed by an […]
Remember that massive drill bit that nearly punctured a passenger-filled F train in October? Well, the MTA has investigated the incident, and concluded the official cause was “stupidity.” MTA Capital Construction president Michael Horodniceanu addressed the accident on Monday, Newsday reports. Construction workers from Tutor Perini were hired to drill drainage holes in the ground […]
On Thursday, a contracted construction crew almost made a subway-shish-kebab out of an F train traveling through Long Island City. The contractors were extending an underground well related to the East Side Access project when their huge drill missed its target and went straight through an F train tunnel, scraping the side of a car and […]
Straphangers Campaign released its annual study of subway delays today, and found that the F Train was the worst offender of all in 2013. The MTA issued 326 alerts for “controllable” issues on the Queens-to-Coney Island line — eight percent of its total alerts in for the year. The 4 Train was next, with 298 […]
Red Hook, Gowanus, and Carroll Gardens commuters, rejoice: the Smith-9th Street subway station is slated to open April 22. The stop, servicing the F and G trains, has been closed since 2011, and its reopening faced delays in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. Between the station’s reopening and the full line inspection the MTA has […]
The MTA will consider adding express service on the F train once a $257.5 renovation project is completed in a few weeks, the transit authority announced Tuesday. The train would run express towards Manhattan in the mornings and towards Brooklyn in the evenings, much like the 7 in Queens, providing South Brooklynites from Coney Island to […]
