NEW YORK (AP) — New Yorkers won't be able to go underground to escape calls from the boss much longer — the Metropolitan Transportation Authority ...
The Huffington Post | Steven Hoffer | Posted 11.02.2011
This song is for everyone who ever suspiciously peered over a fellow subway rider's shoulder and judged that person by what he or she was reading -- s...
Posted 09.25.2011
A man armed with a screwdriver is suspected of attempting on Friday to take over the 5 train after he climbed through an open window and tried to stab...
Ramon Nuez | Posted 08.27.2011
I travel a great deal throughout New York City and HopStop is the main tool I use for getting around. I can honestly say that if it was not for HopSto...
Steve Rosenbaum | Posted 06.12.2011
New York has a digital sensory deprivation zone that tests how long people can stand being disconnected from the web. It's called the New York City Subway.
Posted 05.25.2011
From a book about Charles Manson's murder trial to Steve Martin's autobiography, we saw you reading quite the wide array of books in the past few week...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK — A Canadian fugitive helped get terror training for three New Yorkers accused in a failed al-Qaida sanctioned plot to attack the city'...
Posted 05.25.2011
Would you give up your seat to a pregnant subway rider? Elizabeth Carey Smith wanted to find out. While noticeably pregnant, she rode the city's ...
secondavenuesagas.com | Posted 05.25.2011
After listening to the current iteration of the New York City subway map called everything from bilious to muddy to messy to a mongrel, I almost felt ...
AP | CHRIS HAWLEY | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK — When members of Congress met recently to discuss revitalizing passenger trains in the United States, they chose Grand Central Termina...
Posted 05.25.2011
Conductor is a new project by Google engineer Alexander Chen that turns the iconic New York subway diagram (drawn by Massimo Vignelli in 1972) into a ...
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...
Refinery29.com | Posted 05.25.2011
Unless you've got a driver or a phobia of underground spaces, you've hopped a ride on the subway, and, unless you're asexual, we guarantee there's bee...
Posted 05.25.2011
MTA officials got a firm scolding from City Council members during a hearing on the department's botched response to December's huge snow storm. Repr...
brooklynpaper.com | Gary Buiso | Posted 05.25.2011
Here are the service changes affecting you this weekend (Saturday, Jan. 15 at 12:01 am to Monday, Jan. 17 at 5 am, unless otherwise noted): 2,3,4: B...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK — Passengers' hours-long ordeal on two New York City subway trains stalled in snow drifts near Kennedy Airport is over. NYC Transit sp...
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...
Posted 05.25.2011
New subway cars are coming to a station near you. The R160s were shipped from Brazil and will soon be appearing on N, Q, M, J, Z, L, E and F lines....
Posted 05.25.2011
You won't be able to use the "I was in the subway" excuse much longer when you miss a call. In the next couple years, New Yorkers will be able to mak...
dnainfo.com | Posted 05.25.2011
A small track fire on the F line snarled the morning rush on Tuesday, forcing several subway lines to be diverted. The fire started at around 8 a.m.,...
Gothamist | [17] | | Posted 05.25.2011
The MTA announced that the G train will be suspended on four consecutive weekends due to several maintenance projects....
Andy Borowitz | Posted 05.25.2011
A homeless man who began shouting at New Yorkers in 1985 said that Oprah Winfrey was the inspiration behind his decision to call it quits in early 2010.
Larisa Alexandrovna | Posted 05.25.2011
I wrote this poem years ago as way to deal with the attacks of September 11. On the the anniversary of that horrible day, I am posting it in commemora...
Scott Dodd | Posted 05.25.2011
New Yorkers need to brace for the possibility of more storms, more floods, more heat waves and sea level rise that could reach a couple of feet by the end of the century.
Posted 11.27.2011