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MTA Sells Naming Rights: Barclays Station In Brooklyn

nytimes.com | MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Barclays Bank, Mta Naming Rights, Flatbush Avenue, Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, Subway, Pacific Street, Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Mta Barclays, Subway Station, Mta, New York, Barclays, New York News

Over the last five years, the MTA has been trying eagerly to sell the rights to the names of subway stations. On Monday, they finally succeeded. After...

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Etiquette Enforcement

Ellis Henican | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: New York City Subway, New York, Laws, Subway, New York City, Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Mta, New York Mta, New York News
Ellis Henican

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has officially decided we're not polite enough. They should know, right?

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Things You Can Do With Your Butt On The Subway

Carolita Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: On the Subway, Comics, New York, Subway, New York City, New York News
Carolita Johnson

Now that we're poor, what's the point in thinking about all the things you can't do with all the money you don't have? Think about what you can do with what you've got left, and learn to appreciate the smaller pleasures in life.

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NBC Teams With Subway To Bring Back "Chuck"

New York Times | Bill Carter | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
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"Chuck" is coming back to NBC, and it has fresh reasons to be grateful. In a deal that NBC says came from its decision to go to advertisers early w...

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Bridging the Transportation Gap

Louise Nelson Dyble | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Mass Transit, Shovel-Ready, New York City Subway, Subway, New York City Transit, Shovel Ready, Transportation, Bay Bridge, Politics News
Louise Nelson Dyble

When the government agency overseeing mass transit and the government agency building highways are distinct and uncoordinated, they compete for money, and the public loses.

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Embrace For Impact: Doug Jaeger Discusses the MoMA Subway Vandalism Debacle

Jeremy Abelson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Moma Vandalism, HappyCorp, Mta, Subway, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Doug Jaeger, Poster Boy, Atlantic Avenue, Vandalism, Moma, Media News
Jeremy Abelson

When does negative press actually become bad press? I posed that question to Jaeger, whose branding company was lambasted by the press for vandalizing its own MoMA subway campaign.

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NYC Subway Fares: Agency Votes To Raise To $2.50

AP | KAREN MATTHEWS | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
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NEW YORK — Officials running the nation's largest mass transit system voted Wednesday to impose steep fare hikes and painful service cuts to clo...

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Poster Boy & Aakash Nihalani Remix the MoMA Collection

Dan Gould | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Moma, Mta, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Atlantic Avenue, Subway, Poster Boy, Entertainment News
Dan Gould

Yesterday morning, on the way to the office, we noticed something was pleasantly different about the Museum of Modern Art's temporary display inside the Atlantic Avenue subway station in Brooklyn.

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Subway Sticking By Phelps

AFP | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
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HuffPost Video Premiere: Playing For Change Presents "Don't Worry"

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: The Huffington Post, Variety Magazine, Bono, Usher, Sam Cooke, Josh Groban, Congo, South Africa, New Mexico, First Lady Michelle Obama, Garth Brooks, Shakira, Mark Johnson, Stevie Wonder, Tiger Woods, Will.I.Am, Barcelona Spain, Queen Latifah, Subway, President Barack Obama, Los Angeles California, Washington Mall, President Abraham Lincoln, Joe Biden, Los Angeles, Brazil, New York, Barack Obama, Hbo, Sheryl Crow, Santa Monica California, Herbie Hancock, U2, Entertainment News, Henry Rollins, Youtube, Rickie Lee Jones, Norman Lear, Ashley Judd, New Orleans, Samuel L. Jackson, John Mellencamp, Los Lobos, Pete Seeger, Paul Simon, Washington Memorial, Obama, Apartheid, Santa Monica, Grammy, Lincoln Memorial, Concord Records, Ebay, Woodstock Film Festival, John Legend, Michelle Obama, Entertainment, Jerusalem, Video Premiere, Beyonce, President George Washington, Playing for Change, Pierre Minetti, Keb' Mo', New York City, Tom Hanks, Venezuela, Moscow, Jackson Browne, Vice President Joe Biden, Shepard Fairey, President Lincoln, Contemporary Blues Album of the Year, Bruce Springsteen, Isreal, Zuni, Himilayas, Video, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

Featuring over twenty musicians from four continents who have never met, "Don't Worry" makes its auspicious debut today, on Martin Luther King Day, and is featured here.

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Three NYC Police Officers Surrender In Brooklyn Sodomy Case

AP | TOM HAYS | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Sodomy, Police Brutality, New York City Subway, Police, Subway, Brooklyn, New York City, Home News

NEW YORK — A police officer warned a tattoo parlor worker that if he reported being sodomized with a baton during an arrest at a subway station,...

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NYC Officers Asked To Surrender On Sodomy Allegations

AP | TOM HAYS | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Police Brutality, Sodomy, Marijuana, Subway, Brooklyn, New York City, Politics News

NEW YORK — After weeks of conflicting accounts about a shocking claim of police brutality in a subway station, three patrolmen were notified Mon...

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Detroit Drives to DC and Dr. Deming Invents Japan

Steve Parker | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
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Steve Parker

We've had enough threats from our sworn enemies -- we don't need them from Detroit executives. These CEOs and their boards of directors must go, whether by car or jet or skateboard, they must go.

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NYC Subway Terror Plot May Threaten Holidays, Feds Warn

AP | DEVLIN BARRETT and TOM HAYS | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Al Qaida, Paranoia, Homeland Security, New York City, Terrorism, Subway, Al Qaeda, Politics News

From the AP: Police bolstered security in subways and trains Wednesday after the government warned that al-Qaida suicide bombers were contemplating an...

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Taking on an $8 billion company and winning in four days

Michael Rogers | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Subway, Gay Rights, Civil Rights, Enda, Marriage Equality, Politics News
Michael Rogers

I'm tired. I've been involved in the struggle for gay equality since 1986 and I'm tired of fighting. I'm tired of the conflict in what has become a c...

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Songs For Sale: The Era of the New Megahit

David Singer | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
Read More: Summer Music, Jingles, Subway, Subway Five Dollar Footlong, Music Industry Dead, Free Credit Report Song, Hot in Herre, Free Credit Report, Free Credit report.com Commercials, Itunes, Nelly, Free Credit Report Cot Com, Summer Songs, Music Downloads, Music Industry, Music Industry Jingles, Chris Brown, Quarterflash, Chicago News
David Singer

As in any ecosystem, a new and parasitic mutation is coming to fill the void, giving us the tunes that will become part of our lives, our history, our shared cultural identity. I speak, of course, of the jingle.

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Man Calls 911 Twice After Subway Leaves Sauce Off Sandwich (AUDIO)

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
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Jacksonville police say Reginald Peterson needs to learn that 911 is not the appropriate place to complain that Subway left the sauce off a spicy Ital...

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Confronting Our Inner Vigilante (Part 2)

Russ Wellen | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Law Enforcement, Vigilante, Rudolf Giuliani, Police, Crime, Subway, Subway Vigilante, Bernard Goetz, Justice, New York City, Healthy Living News
Russ Wellen

There's an even stronger impulse driving some to the vigilante act than grandiosity: the realization that if you do nothing, you've essentially allowed yourself to be held hostage, not necessarily to the perpetrator, but to fear.

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Confronting Your Inner Vigilante

Russ Wellen | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Law Enforcement, Vigilante, Police, Rudolf Giuliani, Crime, Subway, Subway Vigilante, Justice, Bernard Goetz, New York City, Healthy Living News
Russ Wellen

If spontaneous and proportional to the crime, the vigilante act, as opposed to the practice, is not a crime. In fact, there's no shortage of situations which call for taking the law into one's hands.

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Jared Fogel Not Dead, Hoax Flies Around Web: Snopes

Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
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Despite reports around the blogosphere that Jared Fogel died, including the bizarrely thorough JaredRemembered.com, Snopes reports that Jared is alive...

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Gas Prices Causing Surge Of Mass Transit Riders

New York Times | CLIFFORD KRAUSS | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Gas Prices, Boston Subway, Mass Transit, New York City Subway, Subway, Business News

With the price of gas approaching $4 a gallon, more commuters are abandoning their cars and taking the train or bus instead. Mass transit systems aro...

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New Urban Status Symbol: The Subway

BusinessWeek | Jennifer Fishbein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
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It seems like everywhere you turn these days, a new high-speed train is whisking more passengers across longer distances faster than ever before. A ri...

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Wal-Mart Dumps McDonald's For Subway As In-Store Restaurateur

Wall Street Journal | JAMES COVERT, RICHARD GIBSON | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Fast Food, McMonald's, Subway, Wal-Mart, Business News

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is losing its taste for burgers and fries. Subway, the fast-food chain that likes to promote its sandwiches as a healthy alterna...

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