Tag: Subway
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 […]
Police Commissioner Bill Bratton is on a mission to eliminate subway dancing. Earlier, Business Insider reported that subway panhandler and performer arrests have risen by 271% since he took office. Now, the AP reports that more than 240 people have been arrested on misdemeanors related to subway dancing in 2014; only 40 were arrested at the same time last […]
Compiled by the New York Daily News, here’s an interactive map of the various crimes committed on the subway, based on NYPD data recorded between July 2008 and June 2013, obtained via a Freedom of Information Law request. According to the stats, the annual number of crimes decreased 12% from 2009 to 2012. It’s a nice looking map […]
Koki Loaiza’s insane ollie over the train tracks at the 145th Street station in Harlem was made famous by Allen Ying‘s photo, but there’s more to that iconic capture. Check out the full, freshly-released short video directed by Colin Read (aka MandibleClaw) from the Tengu: God of Mischief box set. See the skaters wreak havoc in the subway system, complete with riding off escalator […]
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 […]
One of the great projects to come out of NYU’s ITP program, Tunnel Vision is a free app that sources publicly available data and superimposes it on any New York subway map when you move your smartphone over it. You can target very specific part of NYC just by moving your phone over in that direction. It’s […]
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 […]
We’ve always been revolted and fascinated with the dripping gunk caking the Bryant Park subway station. Why did Mayor Bloomberg, alleged champion of public health, allow the city’s transit system to double as a giant petri dish? How many other stations look like this? Is Mayor De Blasio going to do anything about this? Who knows, but […]
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 […]
