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Mona Eltahawy was released from the NYPD’s Central Booking this afternoon after being held for 22 hours following her arrest for defacing one of Pam Geller’s anti-Islam billboards in the Times Square subway station. She’s been charged with criminal mischief and making graffiti. Her tweets since being released are interesting.

Well-known activist/journalist Mona Eltahawy was arrested tonight after spray-painting one of Pam Geller’s anti-Islam billboards in the Times Square subway station. One of Geller’s supporters was apparently lurking nearby and attempted to intervene, spurring a shoving confrontation with Eltahawy, who was also arrested during last year’s riots in Egypt’s Tahrir Square, where she suffered a broken arm and hand during …

Pam Geller’s anti-Islam ads have only been up for a couple of days in New York’s subway and the NYPD has already had to increase security in the stations that feature the billboards, some of which were defaced within hours of going up. Riders also said the ads make them fear for their safety, because the subways have long been …

The 7 train stops in Manhattan at Grand Central, Bryant Park, and Times Square, but movie producers found the above Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood more conducive to their story.

The NYC subway system has seen a recent rash of masturbators, flashers, gropers, and up-skirt video pervs. Gothamist provides a suggested MTA warning poster after another such incident this weekend. (It looks like an old MUNI car in the photo. It’s definitely not MTA.)

You’d think people would know these things. Sadly, no.

After some MTA signage misidentified the B and C trains, the New York Times wondered how many people actually navigate by the colors of the lines rather than their letters and numbers. I do tell house guests just to look for the green line after a day of sightseeing: “Green is for ‘go’, as in ‘go home to Joe’s.'” That …

Gothamist has dug up a vintage 1980 television dance sequence in which Raquel Welch encounters some stereotypical New Yorkers on the subway. Jive-talkin’ blacks! Hot-blooded Latinas! Dancing leathermen! All the boys are gay gay gay, of course.

Only in six stations to start, with another 30 stations by the end of the year.

The New York Times reports today on the Second Avenue subway, whose excavation explosions still rattle my apartment daily after almost two years of work. In Manhattan, where street traffic tends to stall, only one subway runs the length of the East Side. Every weekday, 1.3 million passengers — more than are carried in 24 hours by the transit systems …

Launched yesterday by Google Maps: Have you ever arrived at a subway platform only to find that the train you intended to take is skipping stops, rerouted on another line, or isn’t running at all due to scheduled maintenance? Now when you click on any of the 468 New York City subway stations labeled on Google Maps, you’ll see whether …

Opened in 1905 and one of the few original Beaux Arts control houses in Manhattan. Its twin is on the Upper West Side at Broadway and 72nd.

Yesterday’s deluge in NYC may have brought about the welcome end to this summer’s fourth heat wave, but it also flooded numerous subway platforms. Personally, I wouldn’t slog through subway grunge for a gajillion dollars. Rat bodies and human waste? Fuhgeddaboudit.

Apparently it takes some internet mocking to get the MTA off their asses. That and the word “lawsuits.”

What happens when one step is bit higher than the rest.(Via – Gothamist)

I probably write about the Second Avenue Subway too much, but it IS one of the largest public works projects in our lifetime and it’s happening literally under my feet on the Upper East Side. Today JMG reader David tips us to an in-depth Village Voice examination of the project. Although the first phase of the Second Avenue subway—an extension …

The MTA has unloaded a trainload of ridership stats for useless trivia fans such as myself. There were 1.6 billion rides in 2011. Weekday rides in Manhattan alone are right under three million. The top six busiest stations by number of entries at each: 1. Times Square: 61M2. Grand Central: 43M3. Herald Square: 38M4. Union Square: 35M5. Penn Station [1/2/3]: …

Tell us about your commute.

Sao Paulo’s Metro has launched an LGBT respect campaign. Its objective is to increase respect towards, and decrease discrimination against, LGBT people living in South America’s most populous city. The first stage of the project aims to combat discrimination and prejudice against transgender people, as well as dissemination of a law that punishes homophobic behaviour and discrimination within the State …

Yesterday was the No Pants Subway Ride, the 11th annual installment from the folks at Improv Everywhere. Hit the link for the Gothamist recap of photos from this and previous years.