Tag: Transit
Coney Island, for all its charm, has always been a bit of a tough sell for out-of-town tourists. The beach’s old-school aesthetic is a far cry from antiseptic Manhattan, for one thing, and getting there requires a long ride to the end of D, F, N, or Q. Recent development projects like the new Luna Park are […]
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 […]
Bob Diamond–the same guy who rediscovered an old rail tunnel under Atlantic Avenue in the ‘8os, then sued the city when they cut off his access to it in 2011–wants to make a more publicly accessible Red Hook. Diamond envisions a streetcar system that would connect the neighborhood to Downtown Brooklyn, shuttling straphangers back and […]
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 […]
Several sections of the subway that support elevated tracks are in dire need of inspection, according to a report from the MTA Inspector General’s office. No records exist of detailed inspections of elevated A, C, 2, 3, and L train sections in Brooklyn, and three sections of the 7 haven’t been looked at in 15 […]
The MTA announced Thursday it has added wireless voice and data service to 30 new stations along the subway system. For now, AT&T and T-Mobile are the only major carriers on the system, but Verizon and Sprint are finalizing details as well. In 2011, six stations along 14th and 23rd Streets were outfitted with underground […]
Twenty-four-year-old NYU graduate Zachary DuBow has a plan to help New York City’s poor get better access to the subway system. The only thing standing in his way is the MTA. DuBow, founder of the Next Stop Project, collects New Yorkers’ abandoned MetroCards, aggregating their (mostly minuscule) values onto bigger cards, then distributing them to the city’s […]
