Tag: MTA
It’s 10:23AM on the first day in July and I’m sitting in a dark, cold basement in one of the MTA’s two field offices in Manhattan. This one is at Chambers Street and I’ve spent the past three hours shadowing one of the best jobs the MTA has to offer: lost items retriever. I’m here […]
As the MTA prepares to bring cell phone service to more and more subway stations, here’s a tour from Gizmodo on their latest efforts. An immense physical infrastructure is necessary in order to bring service to such a large distributed network of somewhat decrepit underground locations. Most of the work is taking place in a “mystery location” in […]
Arrests of panhandlers and subway performers has risen by 271% since police commissioner Bill Bratton has taken over, Business Insider reports. Bratton thinks that getting rid of illegal performers is somehow linked to crime prevention, but the young UK filmmaker Scott Carthy disagrees. Watch his short documentary above. As they practice on a Brooklyn rooftop, their dancing […]
Peregrine Falcons — majestic, once-endangered birds of prey — have a habit of nesting on top of New York City’s bridges. Recently, the NYC Department of Environmental Protection tagged some peregrine chicks living on top of the Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial, Throgs Neck, and Verrazano Bridges, and took the above photos. The young birds are at once […]
Adam Chang created the NY Train Project, an interactive site that features renderings of signs from every subway station in Manhattan. Chang writes: One day while waiting for the 6 train at the Bleecker stop, I began to notice the intricate details of the carefully placed tiles in the station sign. Which led me to […]
Above, watch raw footage of an urban explorer’s trip inside the abandoned South Ferry inner loop station, which opened in 1918 and was shuttered in 1977. Writes the explorer on YouTube: Over all these years, the MTA has turned much of the station into storage rooms and also built some machinery there. You can catch […]
Good news for L train riders: the MTA plans to add 33 round trips on Saturdays and 22 on Sundays to the 8th Avenue-Canarsie line, hopefully making traveling through Brooklyn on the weekends a little easier. Three weeknight trips will be added as well. Of course, the L isn’t the only crowded train, even if […]
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 […]
We’ve seen photos of Second Avenue Subway construction before, as well as the havoc it wreaks above ground. Now, here’s a video tour of the enormous public works project from Gizmodo. When the line is completely finished — in many, many years — it will run from 125th Street to the southern tip of Manhattan. […]
An F Train derailed in Woodside, Queens, this morning, causing delays and forcing an evacuation through the subway car roof. The train went off the rails at about 10:30AM, just south of the Queens 65th street station, causing thick clouds of smoke. UPDATE: Officials are reporting 19 injuries, four of them serious. DNAinfo has details about service […]
