Tag: Subway
The premise of Mini Metro seems simple enough: design and build a subway system that will shuttle the citizens of your imaginary utopia from point A to point B in as safe and efficient a manner as possible. But then your population starts to skyrocket, and you don’t have enough train cars to keep up, […]
“I can crochet with my eyes closed,” London Kaye said as she finished covering a subway pole in a colorful web of yarn. It was Valentine’s Day and with a bag of mini yarn hearts she made during her lunch break in tow, she set out to cover the inside of the train car in crochet. “The goal […]
Last week, we showed you this map of Manhattan’s best coffee, organized by subway stop. It’s a useful resource, but those who live and work in the outer boroughs were out of luck until this week. Thankfully, Butterfruit Labs updated its map today to include western Queens and northwest Brooklyn. Those of us who live […]
O Fortuna! Sometimes, you find yourself on the E train, at 7:30pm on a Friday, struggling not to vomit. Sometimes, you vomit anyway. ANIMAL friend Tom Grunwald captured this gentleman flailing desperately off the subway railing, clearly trying to hold back his vomit and not taking several opportunities to exit the train car and relieve himself […]
Christopher Morris is best known for his photographs of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, and Chechnya and the drug war in Colombia, but in the 1980s, he was a 22-year-old photo agency intern from Florida. These are some rare, recently-discovered, previously unpublished photographs on Time LightBox today. This is how he got his start. A […]
Metropolitan Transportation Authority is planning to retire MetroCards. Instead of swiping into the subway or dipping onto the bus, commuters will be tapping their keychains, smart phones and credit cards by as soon as 2019. “We’re expecting the credit card industry to adopt NFC and RFID payments,” says NY MTA spokesperson Aaron Donovan. “That’s a broader trend taking place […]
It’s pretty apparent that our city’s current subway system could use a few improvements. Luckily, Andrew Lynch of Vanshookenraggen has created a new and improved subway system that incorporates what’s already there with minimal additions. Behold: …realistic ideas that could use existing infrastructure better and develop lines that served the growing areas of the city while better connecting the outer boroughs. […]
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 […]
Yesterday, a small dead shark was found on the N train. This unusual find (suspiciously coincidentally occurring during Shark Week) prompted a statement from Discovery Channel that it wasn’t a marketing stunt and widespread international coverage from countless news outlets, including the small group of Taiwanese animators at NMA World Edition. This is the single most detailed […]
