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Thursday, 8:30am, 6 train, 68th Street Woman: Does this train go to the Empire State Building?Man: Yeah, just get off at 33rd and walk west to Fifth Avenue.Woman: Oh. But which one GOES to the Empire State Building?Man: There isn’t one. Woman: Yes there is. Which one is it?Man: None of them GO there, but this one comes close.Woman (turns …

There’s still a few places around town where you can find these groovy old deco signs for the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) subway lines, like this one on the New York Life building. All of the numbered train lines were originally owned by the IRT. Via Wikipedia: The Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) was the operator of the original …

Gas prices have sent subway ridership surging, and with those extra people comes extra litter, and therefore, extra rats. And according to amNY, the latest swarm doesn’t appear much bothered by human presence. “People have seen them sitting on benches,” said Andrew Albert, an MTA board member and chair of the NYC Transit Riders Council, of the underground rodent problem. …

Don’t try to use your ATM card to buy a MetroCard today. Even though a “system-wide” outage means that none of the machines are producing cards, your account is still being charged every time you swipe. The MTA says your account will be credited in two business days, but I bet there’ll be a lot of people left busted after …

Times Square has the fanciest subway entrances. I think the covered up number is the old 9 train, which stopped running in May 2005. Times Square is the busiest subway station in North America, but the busiest in the world is Tokyo’s Shinjuku Station.

This is the new anti-litter campaign on DC’s Metro in which they diss the rats in NYC’s subway. I love the rats! They give you something to watch while you’re waiting for the train. DC’s subway is light-years away from Gotham’s in terms of convenience, but the stations are quite beautiful and clean. But a few rats is still worth …

Saw this commercial during the NFL playoffs last night. Seems a little queer, eh?

The NYPD is conducting a subway sting called “Operation Lucky Bag” in which undercover cops plant bags and wallets containing credit cards,, then wait around to see who picks them up. Unlucky Samaritans who pick up the bags with the intent on contacting their owners are detained, frisked, and their criminal backgrounds are checked. If I found a wallet on …

I found this depressing poster at the 23rd Street entrance of the A train. There was a whole series of posters with this image, all with increasingly dismal text. The message seems more East Village than Chelsea, but the image is appropriate for the ‘hood.

The Second Avenue subway, the long-awaited, often-started but never finished subway line down Manhattan’s East Side had its fourth groundbreaking this week. (My “morning view” pics are usually my own, but I grabbed this one from the NY Times.) The tunnel shown was sealed up in the 70’s during NYC’s big financial crisis and has sat empty since. I can’t …

This giant contraption is the entrance to the 1,2,3 trains at 125th Street in Morningside Heights, just west of Harlem in Manhattan.

Over at the Gothamist, there’s an interesting discussion about a vacation travel site that ranks the top subway systems of the world. Mentioning attributes such as convenience, technology, efficiency, cleanliness, and architectural merit, London’s Underground wins the top spot out of 11 systems reviewed, with NYC coming in a lowly 7th. The mere fact that NYC’s subway is the only …

Don’t be fooled by the gleaming tile, this station isn’t nearly as clean as this picture might indicate. Still, I’m in the tiny minority of New Yorkers who think that the subway stations and trains are aren’t that horribly dirty, considering that millions and millions of passengers travel through every day and that they never close. This is the 1 …

Hmm, the earlier story indicated that there’d be a condom for each subway line. There goes the collectible market. The condoms are available free at many of the busiest subway stations around the city. UPDATE: Washington, DC is doing a city-branded condom too. I’d make some limp joke about the DC fucking the entire country, but it’s probably already on …

The 6 train platform, Saturday 3PMWoman 1: I’m just sorry I slept with them. Woman 2: Well, you were drunk. Woman 1: Yeah, but now today I’m all red and itchy. Woman 2: Right? And you can’t put anything in there, cuz you’ll make it worse. (Horrified, the women realize I’m standing there.) Woman 1: Hey, we’re just talking about …

I live to the right of the #1. But the real reason for this post is that some dude has created a downloadable NYC subway map for your iPod. Get it here..

A fake living room set up to promote Bravo’s Top Design attracted a couple of transit workers to take a break on the platform of the S train, underneath 42nd Street.