Tag Archives: subway

Morning View – Elianto Quintet

Juilliard’s Elianto Quintet can occasionally be found playing near the escalators in the Times Square subway station. At the moment I snapped this photo, they were playing Britney Spears’ Toxic.

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Subway Dating Service Launches

A new website has launched in which one enters his or her NYC subway commute details and searches for possible hook-ups among nearby riders with similar routes. It’s an underground Grindr, of sorts. “Every day, before and after your commute, you’re surrounded by people,” said the site’s developer, Paris-based programmer Laurent Kretz. “Among them, there might be a bass player …

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Cyanide Terrorism Scare In NYC Subway

Lower Manhattan went on a terrorism alert this morning after a man dressed as a track worker was found in a subway tunnel carrying a quart of cyanide pellets and bottles of water. According to the NYPD, the man is a local college student who claims he planned to commit suicide deep in the tunnels so his body would not …

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Hands-Free Subway Safety

Jen Carlson at Gothamist tips us to this entry on Subway Douchery. Jen: “Impressive, but, we’re pretty sure this is how one contracts pink eye.”

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Being Boring

After about two years of prep work, they’ve finally lowered the giant rock boring machine into the Upper East Side pit to begin drilling the next section of the Second Avenue Subway. The machine’s 200-ton cutter head — which uses 44 rotating discs to mine through tons of underground rock — arrived at the project’s “launch box” between 96th and …

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Photo Of The Day – Subway Etiquette

Jen Carlson at Gothamist directs us to fake subway etiquette signs being placed by West Village artist Jason Shelowitz. The MTA can’t actually do anything about subway preachers, of course. I just smile creepily and shout “Hail Satan!” That works about half of the time.

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Fire Island Subway

Somebody enjoys making subway maps “for landscapes with no need for them.” Hit the link for more. Posters available here.

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Photo Of The Day – Fake Brownstone

Curbed discovered that the above brownstone in Brooklyn Heights is actually a secret emergency exit for the subway. An open secret to BH-locals perhaps, but cool to me. NYC is full of subway secrets like this.

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RickRolling The “A” Train

An acapella group from the University of Oregon rickrolled the A train to the blase reaction of New Yorkers, who must have been wondering if the train’s destination was 2007, rather than Canal Street. (Via Jen Carlson @ Gothamist)

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No Underwear Subway Ride: Uncensored

Since so many of you asked how they did it.

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OMFG WTF MTA?

The Working Families Party is warring with NYC for their refusal to allow a subway advertising campaign complaining about recently announced cuts in service. At issue is the “obscene internet shorthand” used in the ads. The MTA is not ROTFL at parody signs that use cheeky acronyms to criticize City Hall. “WTF?” asks one of two posters the Metropolitan Transportation …

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No Underwear Subway Ride

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NYPD Steps Up Subway Presence

After today’s twin bombings of Moscow’s subway system, the NYPD has stepped up its presence at many major NYC subway stations, especially in high tourist areas like Times Square. Following two suicide bombings in Moscow’s subway system on Monday morning, the New York City Police Department is beefing up security underground. The NYPD says straphangers can expect an increased police …

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Afternoon View – S Train

The Times Square-Grand Central shuttle is currently wrapped inside and out to promote Holland.

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How You Get To Work

(Via – Second Avenue Sagas)

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Straight-Up Chicken Abuse

I’m not sure why these things always happen on my line, but here’s how a Gothamist reader recounts his experience on the 6 train last night. We boarded the 6 train at 33rd street around 7pm last night, and noticed a large scarcity of passengers in one section of the train. Upon looking down, it I saw first a live …

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No Weekend 7 Train Until April

Most of the queens in Queens depend on the 7 train for their weekend visits to Manhattan’s gay nightlife. Gothamist reports today that the MTA is suspending weekend service on the 7 for the next ten weekends as their perform their famous “system upgrades.” The service suspension begins January 29th. There will be a replacement bus service along the 7 …

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Lesbian Couple Makes Subway Rescue

The Washington Post today tells the story of a disabled woman rescued from the tracks of DC’s Metro by a lesbian couple after her wheelchair malfunctioned and lurched off the platform. “Help!” the disabled woman cried, her motorized wheelchair overturned a few feet away as she lay sprawled on the Metro tracks at Union Station just before midnight one day …

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Morning View – 6 Train

Is anybody working today?

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MTA Launches New Site

NYC’s MTA has launched a new site which for the first time provides real-time updates on service interruptions and delays. And the new site includes a smartphone ready function. The authority’s older mobile site posted maps only as PDFs, a clunky format that often takes a while to load on hand-held devices. “On the Go,” which features a fresher, streamlined …

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