Tag: Subways
Because many of the best subway musicians will never get the audiences or recognition they deserve, one New Yorker is starting a series of concerts to bring them above ground. Subway Sets, produced by Dan Pierson, will feature one concert per month at a TBD rooftop location, each showcasing three veterans of the underground circuit. […]
The subway line that’s become more useful as the punchline to a joke among transit-obsessed New Yorkers than it is as an actual train may actually be improving soon. After a full line review, the MTA will begin increasing service on the G if it can secure $700,000 in funding, running rush hour trains every […]
In April, we told you about a test the NYPD would be running that involved releasing harmless gases throughout the subway system during rush hour to simulate a chemical attack. The gases would be non-toxic, and authorities could track their movements and draw conclusions about how an actual attack might travel. Then, in May, we […]
Peeing on the subway tracks is a pretty serious faux pas, but no one deserves this kind of punishment. According to the New York Post, Matthew Zeno, 30, was electrocuted and killed after urinating on the third rail at the Broadway-Union Avenue G Train stop at 3:30 this morning. No word on whether he fell, or if […]
This summer may see the holy matrimony of two of the city’s biggest transit stories–Citi Bike and the G train. The beleaguered Brooklyn-Queens subway line will see tunnel closures for 12 weekends this year, and to compensate, the MTA is considering adding Citi Bike service to Greenpoint and Long Island City. Unlike the initial rollout of […]
Designer Randy Gregory is undertaking a massive task: fixing everything that’s wrong with the New York City subway system in just 100 days-on Tumblr, of course. Gregory’s blog aims to propose one hypothetical improvement to the trains a day, and has been doing so since April 13 of this year. That makes today day 55, […]
If you forgot your laptop on the subway last month, you’re in luck: the MTA will sell it back to you. A treasure trove of possessions that more or less sober New Yorkers forgot on the train is sitting in an MTA storeroom waiting to get picked up. Every night, transit workers collect a mother […]
When Hurricane Sandy ravaged New York City and its public transportation system last fall, the R train was one of the hardest-hit lines. Four thousand feet of that line’s East River tunnel flooded, filling with 27 million gallons of water, rendering travel from Brooklyn to Manhattan and back on the R impossible for nearly two […]
Tomorrow, seven months (nearly to the day) after Hurricane Sandy, the Rockaways will once again have a fully-functional subway, as A Train finally service returns to the area. About a month after the storm, the MTA restored partial train service to the area via a temporary “H Train” that traversed the peninsula but didn’t extend to mainland […]
Each time you step on to the subway, you’re joining quite a large crowd of bacteria. How large? Microbiologist Norman R. Pace published a study this week detailing the roughly one billion tiny organisms living in every two cubic meters of air in the transit system–about the amount one person breathes each day. But don’t […]
