Tag: MTA
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 […]
When NYC was hit by a massive blizzard nearly four-years ago, some people got a nice snow day, but for 500 riders on the A-train it was a claustrophobic ordeal in which they were stranded in freezing temperatures for about 10 hours. Now the MTA has settled with 38 victims of the malfunction. They’ll each be […]
Another video has surfaced of people getting into a fight while riding New York’s public transit system– that’s the second this week, and it’s only Wednesday, folks. Just after a group of people were arrested for clawing at each other on the F train, a new video has surfaced of a bus driver roughing up […]
Traditionally, when a graffiti artist risks arrest to paint a train in New York, he or she usually targets a subway car, but one enterprising writer decided to go against the grain by painting a Long Island Railroad train instead. Earlier today, I shot a photo of a LIRR commuter train near the Arch Street […]
A gunman remains at large after striking a bus in Queens on Monday night. The New York Daily News reports that he was aiming at a 21-year-old man, who subsequently suffered an ankle wound. None of the 35 passengers on board the Q22 bus were injured, however. Reports vary, with police saying there was only […]
It’s always been tough to be a “showtime” subway performer in NYC, but more so now that the NYPD has been cracking down on them. So what better time to give them some love? Just like this documentary shows how hard subway dancers practice in order humanize them, a new video by FairEnds shows the […]
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 […]
Violent crime in New York is way, way down, so perhaps it’s more than a coincidence that according to a new poll, women find New York’s public transportation system to be the safest in the world. More than 6,550 “women and gender and city planning experts” responded to a survey conducted by the Thomson Reuters […]
NYC’s popular bike share program, which the people love and the tabloids hate, is expanding. On Tuesday, Citi Bike announced that it will add 6,000 bikes to its fleet and “over 375 new stations” by 2017, most of which are slated for Uptown, Brooklyn and Queens. Jay Walder, the MTA chairman who suddenly resigned in […]
On Monday, New York City’s subway system turned 110 years old and celebrated by releasing two vintage subway trains on Manhattan’s high-volume 1, 2, and 3 lines between Times Square and 96th Street. A description of the Nostalgia Trains, via the MTA’s site: One train will consist of four Low-Voltage subway cars that were in […]
