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New York City Subway

Subway System Being Prepared For Next Big Storm

AP | By KAREN MATTHEWS | Posted 05.17.2013 | New York

NEW YORK (AP) — Removable panels and inflatable plugs are among the ideas New York City's transit officials are considering to stop the next big sto...

WATCH: Guy Gets His Beats Stolen On The Subway

Posted 05.07.2013 | New York

Poor guy was just riding the subway, loudly enjoying the music in his headphones, when... wait for it... a talented thief turns his commute upside dow...

Suspicious Package At Grand Central Was Actually Garbage

Newsday | John Valenti | Posted 05.06.2013 | New York

A suspicious package found Monday on a busy subway platform servicing Grand Central Terminal turned out to be a backpack filled with garbage, an NYPD ...

WATCH: Woman Brutally Beaten, Robbed In Subway

DNAinfo | Posted 04.03.2013 | New York

BOROUGH PARK — A 56-year-old woman was brutally beaten and robbed inside of a Borough Park subway station earlier this month, cops said. The vict...

Teen Fatally Struck While Crossing Subway Tracks

| Posted 03.27.2013 | New York

By DNAinfo Staff UPPER WEST SIDE — A Long Island athlete's 18th birthday ended tragically Tuesday night when a train killed him as he tried to da...

Gay NYC Subway Passenger Who Confronted Homophobic Preacher Speaks Out

Posted 03.02.2013 | Gay Voices

The gay New York subway passenger who became a viral sensation after footage of him standing up to a preacher spewing a homophobic rant says he initia...

Bloody MetroCards To Raise Awareness Of Subway Deaths

| Posted 02.07.2013 | New York

By Jill Colvin, DNAinfo Reporter/Producer NEW YORK CITY — The city's public transit union will be distributing creepy mock MetroCards Thursday to...

PHOTOS: NYC's Massive Underground Projects

AP | VERENA DOBNIK | Posted 04.09.2013 | New York

NEW YORK — Sixteen stories below Grand Central Terminal, an army of workers is blasting through bedrock to create a new commuter rail concourse ...

WATCH: Dreamy Portrait Of NYC Subway Passengers

The Huffington Post | Christopher Mathias | Posted 02.06.2013 | New York

Like Walker Evans and Stanley Kubrick (see photos below) before her, photographer/filmmaker Rebecca Davis takes voyeuristic photographs of New York Ci...

PHOTO: Big NYC Water Main Break Floods Subway

| Posted 02.01.2013 | New York

By Joe Parziale and Aidan Gardiner FLATIRON — A water main break flooded into the 23rd Street subway station Friday causing major delays on the N...

Silencing The New York Subway

NARRATIVE.LY | Posted 01.31.2013 | New York

If you’ve ever stood in the deafening racket of the Spring Street subway station in Manhattan and asked yourself, “Hmm, I wonder if standing here...

To Prevent More Deaths, MTA Considers Laser Sensors

Posted 01.29.2013 | New York

MIDTOWN — The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is exploring rigging subway platforms with “intrusion technology” that would sound alerts wh...

Suspect In Fatal Subway Push Found Fit For Trial

AP | Posted 01.14.2013 | New York

NEW YORK -- A New York City woman accused of shoving a man to his death in front of a subway train because she believed he was Muslim has been found f...

Grand Central To Turn 100

AP | BETH J. HARPAZ | Posted 01.10.2013 | New York

NEW YORK -- Grand Central, the country's most famous train station and one of the finest examples of Beaux Arts architecture in America, turns 100 on ...

Man Injured After Jumping From Train

DNAinfo | Posted 01.09.2013 | New York

HAMILTON HEIGHTS — A 25-year-old man was injured after he tried to leap from a moving 1 train onto a platform at the 145th Street station early Wedn...

Woman Killed By Train Early New Year's Day

AP | Posted 03.03.2013 | New York

NEW YORK — New York City police say a young woman stumbling around on a Manhattan subway platform not far from Times Square fell onto the tracks...

Alleged Subway Pusher Arrested For Hate Crime

| Posted 12.30.2012 | New York

By Jess Wisloski, DNAinfo Weekend Editor FOREST HILLS — A woman alleged to have killed a Woodside man waiting for a 7 train by pushing him into t...

New MTA App Tells Commuters When Their Train Will Arrive

DNAinfo | Posted 12.29.2012 | New York

NEW YORK — A new app aims to make fewer straphangers feel stranded by train delays. MTA Subway Time — which launched as a beta version for iPho...

Man Pushed In Front Of NYC Subway Train

AP | COLLEEN LONG | Posted 02.26.2013 | New York

NEW YORK — A mumbling woman pushed a man to his death in front of a subway train on Thursday night, the second time this month someone has been ...

Man Electrocuted By Third Rail

DNAinfo | Posted 12.24.2012 | New York

BEDFORD-STUYVESANT — A man was electrocuted at the Broadway Junction A and C subway station Friday afternoon after landing on the train tracks and t...

MTA Officially Approves Fare Hike Plan For 2013

Reuters | Posted 02.18.2013 | New York

NEW YORK, Dec 19 (Reuters) - New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the biggest transportation network in North America, approved fare hi...

Woman Uses Pen In Violent 6 Train Attack

The Huffington Post | Ron Dicker | Posted 12.04.2012 | New York

With more than 5 million daily riders on the New York City subway, violence happens. But it usually doesn't involve writing instruments wielded as wea...

When NYC Had Money Trains

NARRATIVE.LY | Posted 11.29.2012 | New York

Late one summer night in July 1950, a group of teenagers arrived at the 175th Street and Fort Washington Avenue Station of the IND subway line. It was...

PHOTOS: Tense Times In Graffiti Town

NARRATIVE.LY | Posted 11.29.2012 | New York

In 1971, as Americans became increasingly concerned with the effects of over-development, pollution and urban decay, the newly formed Environmental Pr...

WATCH: A Business Making Subway Signs

NARRATIVE.LY | Posted 11.27.2012 | New York

Iconic. Minimalist. Formal. All of these terms describe the subway’s most identifiable characteristic: Its signs—something Trevor MacDermid knows ...