Tag: MTA
Earlier today, the MTA shut down service on a section of the B and Q lines in Brooklyn for about two hours because two kittens were spotted roaming around the tracks of the Church Avenue station in Prospect Lefferts Gardens. According to the transit agency, this is standard operating procedure. “If train personnel see anything […]
Here are two vintage New York City Subway PSAs, courtesy of the Kino Library (the same folks who brought you this grimy ’80s East Village footage), as dug up by Bowery Boogie. One is from the ’40s; the other from the ’70s. Both are fantastic. The ’70s spot in particular seems angled at tourists, advertising […]
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.” […]
All you naysayers of the recent metro card fare increase, rest assured: those extra 25 cents per ride might help save clean scalps all over Sunnyside and Woodside, Queens from the perils of pigeon shit. The MTA plans to invest $250,000 in a brand new “state-of-the-art pigeon poop mitigation system,” consisting of low-voltage wires, spikes […]
Meet Darius McCollum, a man who has been arrested on twenty-nine separate occasions for impersonating Metropolitan Transportation Authority employees in hopes of operating the city’s subways and busses. Because he loves them. He loves them too much. In more recent developments his lawyer insists that many of McCollum’s repeated incidents are in fact a result of uncontrollable […]
The subway line that’s become more useful as the punchline to a joke among transit-obsessed New Yorkers than it is as an actual train may actually be improving soon. After a full line review, the MTA will begin increasing service on the G if it can secure $700,000 in funding, running rush hour trains every […]
Do you tend to plan your daily outings based exclusively on travel time via public transit from Point A to Point B? Do you feel stifled when required to provide a specific destination by websites like Hop Stop and Google Maps? Do you just love being able to rearrange pretty colors with a random click of […]
Wondering why you’re paying $1 for a new MetroCard? Here’s surcharge gospel according to Printed Internet. […]
This summer may see the holy matrimony of two of the city’s biggest transit stories–Citi Bike and the G train. The beleaguered Brooklyn-Queens subway line will see tunnel closures for 12 weekends this year, and to compensate, the MTA is considering adding Citi Bike service to Greenpoint and Long Island City. Unlike the initial rollout of […]
The NSA is listening, PRISM is ruining the internet and surveillance cameras are everywhere. Bummer. Well, we might as well have a little fun. Here’s our fashion spread, as shot through NY subway surveillance monitors. It was fun until an MTA worker — not a cop — asked me, “You know, we can arrest you for […]
