Subway

Subway Exit Map Application For Cell Phones

NBC NewYork | Posted 08.07.2009 | New York


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 New Subway Ad: "Be Yourself" (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 08.07.2009 | Business


Michael Phelps' marijuana flap has not diminished his commercial viability, if the latest Subway ad is any indication. The sandwich company stuck by P...

Manhattan Subway Station To Hear The Call Of Nature

New York Times | MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM | Posted 08.06.2009 | New York


Starting next year, the city's subterranean soundtrack -- a familiar overture of clanks, screeches, groans and beeps -- is poised to add a few noises ...

MTA Wins Battle With Subway Flooding

nydailynews.com | Pete Donohue | Posted 08.02.2009 | New York


The MTA finishes millions of dollars in projects that have prevented flooding and kept commuters from experiencing delays from flooding despite the se...

The Six Crazy People You Meet on the New York Subway

Una LaMarche | Posted 07.31.2009 | New York


Una LaMarche

Living in a city like New York that is overflowing with people, it is hard not to become a sort of amateur anthropologist.

New York's Ear-Splitting Restaurants

Erica Abeel | Posted 07.30.2009 | New York


Erica Abeel

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?

Subway Fare Hike Irks Straphangers

nydailynews.com | By Irving Dejohn and Stephanie Gaskell | Posted 07.30.2009 | New York


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 ...

Cross Roads

Gene Russianoff | Posted 07.27.2009 | New York


Gene Russianoff

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.

New York's No. 7 Subway Line Rated The Cleanest

New York Times | Michael M. Grynbaum | Posted 07.26.2009 | 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...

MTA Sells Naming Rights To Brooklyn Subway Stations

nytimes.com | MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM | Posted 07.25.2009 | New York


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...

Why I'm Raising Free-Range Kids

Lenore Skenazy | Posted 07.25.2009 | New York


Lenore Skenazy

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."

Etiquette Enforcement

Ellis Henican | Posted 07.24.2009 | New York


Ellis Henican

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

Things You Can Do With Your Butt On The Subway

Carolita Johnson | Posted 07.16.2009 | New York


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.

NBC Teams With Subway To Bring Back "Chuck"

New York Times | Bill Carter | Posted 06.19.2009 | Media


"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...

Bridging the Transportation Gap

Louise Nelson Dyble | Posted 05.11.2009 | Politics


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.

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

Jeremy Abelson | Posted 05.01.2009 | Media


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.

NYC Subway Fares: Agency Votes To Raise To $2.50

AP | KAREN MATTHEWS | Posted 04.25.2009 | Home


NEW YORK — Officials running the nation's largest mass transit system voted Wednesday to impose steep fare hikes and painful service cuts to clo...

Poster Boy & Aakash Nihalani Remix the MoMA Collection

Dan Gould | Posted 03.27.2009 | Entertainment


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.

Subway Sticking By Phelps

AFP | Posted 03.10.2009 | Business


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HuffPost Video Premiere: Playing For Change Presents "Don't Worry"

Mike Ragogna | Posted 02.19.2009 | Entertainment


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.

Three NYC Police Officers Surrender In Brooklyn Sodomy Case

AP | TOM HAYS | Posted 01.09.2009 | Home


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,...

NYC Officers Asked To Surrender On Sodomy Allegations

AP | TOM HAYS | Posted 01.08.2009 | Politics


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

Detroit Drives to DC and Dr. Deming Invents Japan

Steve Parker | Posted 01.06.2009 | Business


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.

NYC Subway Terror Plot May Threaten Holidays, Feds Warn

AP | DEVLIN BARRETT and TOM HAYS | Posted 12.27.2008 | Politics


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

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

Michael Rogers | Posted 12.19.2008 | Politics


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...