Microphone in hand, I set out to ask perfect strangers one question that I just had to know the answer to - what is the most surprising thing you've s...
Jennifer Hamady | Posted 05.23.2012
On the subway we try our best to ignore each other. We set our faces solid as stone, and get irritated at anyone who interrupts our bee-line to wherever we're going. We sit next to each other and don't acknowledge each others' existence.
AP | JENNIFER PELTZ | Posted 04.25.2012
NEW YORK — A man accused of shoving a stranger into the side of an oncoming subway train was convicted Friday of assault but acquitted of attemp...
Posted 01.23.2012
Every New Yorker suffers through their commute in their own special way. We take the 6, which is usually uneventful, but often faintly smells like a s...
Rick Hamlin | Posted 01.04.2012
People do tons of things on the New York subway: eat, sleep, read tabloids, gossip, watch movies, play games, work on their laptops, put on makeup. They also pray.
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Posted 12.04.2011
MANHATTAN -- The MTA is looking at increasing rush-hour and weekend service along the crowded L train following inquiries by a local politician into s...
Caroline Giegerich | Posted 11.08.2011
The next time you step onto the platform and wait for that train, think about all the moments you've spent throughout the tunnels in NYC and the ways these have defined you.
Inae Oh | Posted 11.02.2011
Sean Vegezzi's video, "It's Nice To Be Important, But It's More Important To Be Nice," takes on an inside-out perspective from the city's inaccesible ...
Posted 10.24.2011
By Andrew Grossman WSJ.COM: The J/Z line is the best New York's subway system has to offer, according to a new study by the rider advocates at the St...
AP | Posted 10.20.2011
NEW YORK -- A New York City subway clerk thwarted a suicide attempt at his Manhattan station by cutting the power to the tracks as a train approached....
Lucas Kavner | Posted 08.20.2011
A: Will this train let me off here? At this stop? B: Ha. A: Pardon? B: Your question. It is absurd. It's the weekend, don't you know? The trains. They will not go where you'd expect.
AP/The Huffington Post | CHRIS HAWLEY | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK — The city's subway riders can handle panhandlers, rats and tuneless street musicians. But eating spaghetti in a crowded subway car? Well, ...
nypost.com | JOHN DOYLE | Posted 05.25.2011
A man was killed early this morning after a subway train struck him in Brooklyn, authorities said. The victim, believed to be in his 30s, was killed ...
The Huffington Post | Grace Green | Posted 05.25.2011
Musician, performer and interactive artist Alexander Chen has started an ambitious project tentatively titled 'Conductor', which uses the lines on the...
Posted 05.25.2011
Sadly, this will not surprise you. A new British study found that riding the subway greatly increases your risk of respiratory infections. From The ...
Posted 05.25.2011
An independent movie actor was trapped between a 4 train and one of the hydraulic platform extenders that appear along the platform in the Union Squar...
The Huffington Post | Grace Green | Posted 05.25.2011
The art world is abuzz about an exhibit that neither spectators nor buyers are able to see. The Underbelly Project, one of the largest exhibits of st...
dnainfo.com | Posted 05.25.2011
A man was struck and killed by an E train early Thursday morning during what an MTA spokesperson described as a police chase. "Apparently the person ...
AP | MARC BEJA | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK — New Yorkers took some subways and buses for the last time on Friday, a few of them carrying cardboard tombstones to mourn the end of ...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK (AP) -- New York's transit agency on Wednesday proposed fare increases of more than 16 percent for monthly subway and bus passes and 9 percen...
New York Daily News | PETE DONOHUE | Posted 05.25.2011
For years, NYC Transit has wildly underestimated how often riders beat the fare, which cheats the cash-crunched agency out of millions of dollars, the...
businessinsider.com | Lawrence Delevingne | Posted 05.25.2011
If you think tensions over swine flu are exaggerated, think again. We saw a violent altercation between two women this morning on the New York City s...
Huffington Post | Eve Attermann | Posted 05.25.2011
This morning, a downtown-bound 6 Train pulled up slowly to Grand Central Terminal. It was absolutely packed. Even the end cars suffered the crush of p...
nydailynews.com | Sarah Armaghan and Pete Donohue | Posted 05.25.2011
The battle over East River bridge tolls may be lost, but the war hasn't ended, Lt. Gov. Richard Ravitch said on Wednesday....
nydailynews.com | Pete Donohue | Posted 05.25.2011
MTA Chairman Jay Walder and fellow authority board members were called "a bunch of doody-heads" by a high ranking union official at Walder's first boa...
Posted 05.18.2012