Tag: MTA
A subway busker who apparently values his life at less than $5 risked death to fetch a bill that landed on the subway tracks in Brooklyn. A video posted to Reddit shows a very terrible human being tossing a five-dollar bill that had no shot at landing across the platform. The busker, without hesitating, flings […]
Service on the entire 7 line has been suspended due to an icy rail, leaving some passengers stranded for hours. Around 9 AM, the MTA halted service between 42nd Street and Flushing-Main Street after a Manhattan-bound train stalled near Queensboro Plaza, losing power. Transit Alert: '7' train suspended both ways Flushing-Main St to Times Square […]
The admins at Is The L Train Fucked will be able to set it and forget it for a little while, because the subway line will indeed be fucked for nine weeks. From March 24 to May 22, the L will not run between 8th Avenue and Bedford Avenue from midnight to 5am, Tuesdays through Fridays. If […]
New York City’s subway is system is just now crawling back to life after Governor Cuomo mandated a service shutdown effective at 11 PM on Monday night ahead of what was deemed to be a “potentially historic” blizzard. This was the first time in the city’s history that the subway has halted for a snowstorm. […]
As increased security brings more cops to Penn Station, MTA cops are facing more assaults and attacks. The New York Post reports that in the past year, 10 cops were attacked and a total of 21 were assaulted; in 2013, no cops were attacked. Only eight were assaulted. During this time, Governor Cuomo also increased […]
The MTA is scheduled to vote on two separate pricing plans for Metrocards on Thursday — though structurally different, both plans would result in the same increase for monthly cards. Board members will vote after hearing from the public at the meeting that will begin at 10 AM. The difference between the two plans will […]
Days after a Redditor found cameras hidden in New York’s Herald Square subway station, the New York Post investigated and confirmed that there are “at least six hidden cameras” embedded among the “ubiquitous domed video-surveillance cameras.” Though one source in the MTA described the cameras as “antiquated,” as they date back to the 1990s, the […]
Since 1989, New York City subway trains have, for the most part, been completely graffiti free — an accomplishment that didn’t come easily. It took the MTA decades to eradicate the illicit urban art form from the transit system, so it’s not surprising that the agency is very particular about the type of advertising it […]
Demonstrators will no longer be permitted to conduct die-in protests at Grand Central Terminal. The Wall Street Journal reports that the protests have occurred there every night since December 3, when a Staten Island grand jury decided not to charge a white police officer in the death of unarmed black man Eric Garner. But on […]
An NYPD officer who has seven years on the force turned himself in on Thursday after he was accused of assaulting a female MTA worker who was on duty at a Bronx subway station. After Officer Mirjan Lolja, 37, saw himself in a surveillance video on the news, he elected to turn himself in at the 25th […]
