Tag: MTA
The future is living above the Woodside Long Island Railroad station in a “heterogeneous and highly linked set of living environments” as an “alternative to current urban renewal based modes of densification through an exploration of symbiotic re-purposing of air rights above transportation existing corridors.” At least, according to the architects of AMLGM, it is. […]
If you used your credit card to buy a MetroCard at 59th Street-Columbus Circle recently, you might want to check your bank statement. An anonymous rider spotted a credit card skimmer — a device that captures and records card information — mounted to a vending machine on the north side of the downtown 1 train […]
The D Train! D for dirt! The transit advocacy group Straphangers Campaign released the results of its 14th annual “Subway Schmutz” survey today, and found that the Bronx-to-Coney-Island line has more grime than any other train. According to the survey, just 17 percent of D Train cars are clean. The next-nastiest line was the A, with […]
The Upper East Side is home to some of New York’s most expensive real estate, and with the building of the Second Avenue Subway well underway, it’s no surprise there have been complaints. We’ve always thought it was unfounded whining, but the MTA subway expansion project has left the stretch from 66th to 74th Streets […]
Across the country, mass transit ridership is higher than it’s been in half a century, and New York City is leading the way. According a report from the American Public Transit Association, Americans took 10.7 billion trips on subways, buses, streetcars, and commuter trains in 2o13 — 37.2 percent higher than in 1995. “As the […]
If you felt like December was a worse-than-average month for getting to work on time on the subway, you were right: according to MTA statistics, there were 36,485 delays that month — 80 percent higher than in December 2012. The entirety of last year was bad, in fact, with 28 percent more delays than the […]
MTA Bus Time is great. If your line of choice has it and you’ve got a phone, you can know exactly when a bus will arrive at your stop, rather than having to deal with the transit authority’s sometimes unreliable static schedule. Now, the program — which already covers Staten Island, Manhattan, and the Bronx […]
On Chicago public radio in November, James Murphy said he’s been working for fourteen years on an idea that would make NYC subway stations musical. Now, Wall Street Journal has a clip of the former LCD Soundsystem frontman discussing the project further and previewing what it might sound like. In Murphy’s vision, each turnstile would produce […]
After an announcement this week that it will begin kicking out homeless people who take shelter on subway trains, the MTA would like to clarify that no, it is not a heartless monster. NYPD officers and transit workers won’t force homeless people above ground, MTA spokesman Kevin Ortiz said Friday, but offer them alternatives, like a bed in […]
At around 5:30 this morning, a man driving a stolen box truck crashed into a city bus at Seventh Avenue and 14th Street, killing William Pena, the bus driver, and injuring four others, including the driver of the truck. Police were pursuing the truck before the crash, and apprehended the driver at the scene. Pena was a […]
