I recently gave up my profession, as Pornstar Extraordinaire, and my car. I live three blocks from LA's greatest kept secret, the Metro, and the entire system is based on something this city lacks: trust.
Why aren't we asking the business and philanthropic community to help do their part by offering to pick up the tab on Metro station construction?
While subway systems outside of New York might be cleaner and break down less often -- and let's be honest, most of them do -- few are as filled with ...
The new chairman of New York's transit system is looking to introduce a pricing policy that would offer passengers discounts to ride late at night and...
New Yorkers, take heart: your city is a den of dirt and grime and gluttony no more. According to David Owen, author of Green Metropolis: What the City...
NEW YORK — A New York City lawmaker wants to see Michael Jackson honored at a subway station where the star made the music video for "Bad." Cou...
Despite the "sour economic climate" in New York City, what's happened is that "dozens of chain stores actually have expanded their footprint in the five boroughs over the past year."
The mystery subway pervert has been caught. Kevin Bishop, a 44-year-old grandfather with 64 arrests on his record, was collared by police Thursday af...
When was the last time you saw Mark Twain on the Q train? Or Faulkner on the F? If you've noticed that great literature has lost out to throw-away t...
A quick-thinking subway rider was able to snap a picture of the man she says exposed himself on the train, but was given the brushoff by a cop when sh...
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A small electrical fire broke out in an East Side subway tunnel Thursday morning, frightening passengers who worried the sparks and heavy smoke were s...
As a lifelong New Yorker, I have often wondered what subways would be like if they became animated.
A subway could not only cleanse Los Angeles' polluted air and clear its congested roads, but could also radically change the way Angelinos relate to one another.
It's 7th heaven for some straphangers. The No. 7 line was rated the best ride in the subway system by a new Straphanger's Campaign report released tod...
NYC commuter grew to appreciate the times when his subway door would perfectly match up to the exit stairwell. So, he decided to map out all the perfe...
Michael Phelps' marijuana flap has not diminished his commercial viability, if the latest Subway ad is any indication. The sandwich company stuck by P...
Starting next year, the city's subterranean soundtrack -- a familiar overture of clanks, screeches, groans and beeps -- is poised to add a few noises ...
The MTA finishes millions of dollars in projects that have prevented flooding and kept commuters from experiencing delays from flooding despite the se...
Living in a city like New York that is overflowing with people, it is hard not to become a sort of amateur anthropologist.
The price to ride the subway in New York City has been raised again, now from $2 to $2.25. New Yorkers feel they are being taken advantage of in this ...
In the city's restaurants, it's apparently de rigueur to have women shrieking like banshees. Couldn't the mayor institute a stiff fine for screaming in restaurants, like the one for spitting in subways?
Whether you love them or hate them, for millions of us every day, trains and buses are a daily dose of what it means to live in New York.
Queens commuters and Mets die-hards, rejoice: the No. 7 train, which stretches west to east from Times Square in Manhattan out to Flushing, Queens (wi...
When I wrote a little column about letting my fourth-grader ride the subway solo from Bloomingdale's to 34th Street and from there, to take a bus by himself, home, it hit the proverbial "nerve."
