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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 …

The MTA is dragging their feet on repairing the rotting and crumbling edges of midtown’s subway platforms, even though their own report nine months ago showed that the wooden edges in some stations are falling apart. The crumbling conditions can be found on platforms for the downtown F at 34th Street and the uptown B and D at 47-50 Streets/Rockefeller …

When a gay man got attacked by three thugs yelling anti-gay slurs on the Chicago subway yesterday, he pretended to be HIV-positive to escape. Daniel Hauff, 33, said he tried to quell a dispute between two men on the train when one of them, joined by two other riders, began yelling gay slurs and other taunts at him. Hauff said …

Improv Everywhere’s annual No Pant Subway Ride is this Sunday. Details here. Not to be a spoil sport, but when everybody knows it’s coming, it doesn’t seem very “improv” anymore. Here’s how last year’s event looked.

Work on the Second Avenue subway line continues, even in the face of “doomsday” MTA service cuts, which may include ending free rides for the city’s public school students. (An excellent way to put an end to those annoyingly rising attendance rates.) The shot above was taken at 91st street, which will be the launching point for the massive tunnel-boring …

NYC’s Nostalgia Train program begins today. Via Gothamist: The Nostalgia Shoppers’ Special is made up of subway cars in service from the 1930s to the 1970s, running along the lettered lines from the Grand Concourse to Coney Island. Ceiling fans, padded seats and incandescent light bulbs were state-of-the-art when these cars were first placed in service. The cars were removed …

My late aunt used to say that you weren’t a real New Yorker until you saw a dead body. Therefore I almost earned my Gothamite stripes last night when a smiling young man climbed down onto the subway tracks at 68th Street, then started taking off his clothes while walking back and forth on the wooden cover over the third …

Years late and jillions over budget, next month the MTA will finally begin installing train arrival countdown clocks on the numbered lines. About 150 stations will get their clocks over the next 12 months, beginning with stations on the 6 line in the Bronx. The L train was the first to get the displays two years ago. They don’t make …

L Train, Monday, 9:30pm Hipster Chick 1: Yeah, so it’s pretty big and the price is OK, but it’s waaay at the end of the R train.Hipster Chick 2: Totally BFE out there.Hipster Chick 1: Right? And Kristen pointed out that we hadn’t seen a single gay man the entire time.Hipster Chick 2: Like I said, beyond civilization.Hipster Chick 1: …

Interboro Rhythm Team, Watch The Closing Doors, 1983. IRT’s novelty rap/dance hit today provides an amusing look at the state of Manhattan in the early 80’s as the vocalist counts off every stop on the 1 train from South Ferry to 137th Street. When Christopher Street/Sheridan Square comes up, he affects a fey accent: “Where all the boys go.” Moments …

Starting this Monday, NYC’s subway riders will see an ad campaign for atheism with the tagline “A million New Yorkers are good without God. Are You?” The posters also advertise the Web site BigAppleCoR.org, which provides a listing of local groups affiliated with the Coalition of Reason, the umbrella organization that coordinated the campaign. The campaign — which is being …

Tomorrow DC police will implement rolling street closures to accommodate the National Equality March. Here is some advice for attendees. The National Equality March is scheduled to take place at noon on Sunday, Oct. 11. The March will begin at McPherson Square and reach the west side of the U.S. Capitol at approximately 2 p.m. The planned route is south …

1. This is the clearest subway announcement you’ll ever hear. 2. This woman kills me.

I don’t often connect to the E from my home line of the 6 because of the two-block underground connection and the super-deep level of the E at that point. That can be hell when it’s hot, especially when the E’s escalators are broken, which seems to be a 50-50 shot on any given day. (When built, they were the …

Improv Everywhere pulls off one of their sweeter stunts. Doesn’t compare to Best Game Ever, though.

I was cracking up yesterday watching the contortions New Yorkers were going through trying not to put their hands on anything on the 6 train. One woman wrapped her leg around the center pole, another used her scarf to hang on to the hand rail. Others tried the surfboard method, riding with legs wide apart, hands flailing for balance. If …

We’re two years into the digging of the Second Avenue subway and now the MTA says it won’t open until 2017. Maybe. The conclusion: the official completion date for phase one of the project should be pushed from June 2015 to December 2016, with possible future delays placing the opening in the summer of 2017, the sources said. And, the …

Dozens are injured, some critically, after a crash of San Francisco’s Muni just west of the Castro at the West Portal Station. The station is one stop away from the Castro. Forty-seven people were injured today, four of them severely, when a Municipal Railway train rear-ended another Muni train at the West Portal Station, authorities said. Witnesses described a chaotic …