Tag Archives: subway

Here’s what happened: An Australian man got his leg stuck in the gap between the platform and the train in a Perth subway, and normally, this story would end with heavy train delays and a severely injured man. But in a surprising display of camraderie and teamwork, the passengers got off the train and literally pushed the car off the …

Gizmodo took a tour of the Second Avenue subway and has posted some great photos as well as the video below. The 72nd Street station reminds me of the DC Metro. And that’s a very good thing. New York City’s new 2nd Avenue subway line is a construction project of truly monumental scale. Decades of planning and billions of dollars …

A Manhattan-bound F train derailed today in Woodside, Queens. Many passengers were evacuated via a tunnel hatch to the street. At least 19 people were hurt after a train derailed near a Queens subway station on Friday, officials said. About 1,000 people were riding the Manhattan-bound F train when it slid off the track near the station at Broadway and …

A rat joined the exodus to Brooklyn yesterday, boarding at Fulton Street in downtown Manhattan much to the screams of human passengers. Wait until he sees the Brooklyn rents these days.

Gizmodo reports: NYC’s East Side Access Project continues apace, and these recent images, taken last month by MTA photographer Rehema Trimiew, show a whole new view of the mind-boggling underground caverns now being constructed beneath Manhattan. From raw walls of exposed geology to this, the space is finally taking on the look and feel of architecture. The titanic yellow facility—its …

The annual event has spread from NYC to cities all over the world. Judging from this clip, Gotham’s no-pants ride was crashed by strippers.

DNAinfo reports: Two men were arrested for dancing on a crowded subway car at the West 4th Street station last week, NYPD said. Police spotted 20-year-old Shamik Watson and 18-year-old Andrew Washington dancing and somersaulting on a packed A train at about 12:30 p.m. on Dec. 27, police said. The pair caused a hazard to themselves and others around them, …

After four years of blasting for the coming Second Avenue subway line, the monstrous muck house on my block is finally coming down and tenants on the first six floors of the above building again have sunlight reaching their windows. This is too late, of course, for the scores of street level businesses on the Upper East Side that long …

For those that are interested in mass transit trivia: The weather was mild on the subway system’s perfect day — clear skies to coax New Yorkers outdoors, paired with a breeze that discouraged long walks. There were probably few vacations planned, with summer a recent memory and the year-end holidays looming. It was, perhaps most important, a Thursday. And so, …

Via Business Insider: There are a lot of ways to make New York City’s subway system better. More lines. Cleaner, faster, more high-tech trains. Lower fares. WiFi everywhere. All of that, however, would cost a lot of money — and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority doesn’t have much cash on hand. But there are ways to make things nicer without heavy …

The Washington Post reports: After more than a year in the making, Metro will unveil a new map Thursday that includes the future 23-mile Silver Line in Northern Virginia. It is the first time the iconic 37-year-old map, featuring all of Metro’s rail lines has undergone a major facelift. Metro officials kept the new map under tight wrap for more …

The two kittens who became an issue in New York City’s mayoral race have been adopted one week after the MTA shut down two subway lines in Brooklyn as they darted around the third rail. The Village Voice reports on their new home: Luckily, we still live in Bloomberg’s New York, a place where subway kittens can dream of one …

I came across this schematic version of the NYC subway map last night. Its creator spoke to Gothamist last month: “Personally, I think that every large network should always issue two maps, a good geographical map and a good diagram so that people can choose which they prefer. Paris and Berlin offer both, London only a diagram, New York only …

“The next mayor of New York, if he or she is to do a good job, will have to say ‘no’ a lot. Only Lhota gave the correct answer: No, you do not strand thousands of New Yorkers for 90 minutes in a futile effort to herd two cats whose lives we are inexplicably prioritizing over the rats who are …

Kitten-gate, now in day three.

Thousands of New Yorkers had their commutes interrupted for about an hour yesterday when the MTA shut down two subway lines in Brooklyn because two kittens were darting about near the third rail. NBC 4 New York can confirm that herding cats is a difficult feat. Video obtained by NBC 4 New York shows the kittens — one black, one …

Gothamist notes that according to Taiwanese animators, the dead shark found yesterday on the N train started his day with trip to Times Square before killing some hipsters and then getting the stop-and-frisk treatment by the NYPD.

No, it’s not the latest movie from SyFy. Somebody found a dead shark today on the Queens-bound N train.  Gothamist asked the MTA how these situations are handled: “Live sharks are wrangled by Shark Maintainer IIs, who have passed the qualification test and have minimum three years in the Shark Maintainer I title. Dead ones are handled by Shark Maintainer …