Miss Subway from March-April 1959 now owns Ellen’s Stardust Diner at 50th St. and 7th Ave. (Source: The New York Times)
Last week, during my post on subway movies, I omitted On The Town. The Comden and Green musical follows three sailors on leave in New York for 24 hours. One of the sailors — Gabey [...]
With the holidays mostly behind us, New York City Transit is ramping up the weekend work again. We have a light slate of service changes but more than the last few weeks. From the press release, here we go:
From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, December 29 to 5 a.m. Monday, December 31, Manhattan-bound 6 run express from [...]
Later than expected, Santiago Calatrava’s giant porcupine will be a cornerstone of Lower Manhattan. (Source: Lower Manhattan)
Here’s a shocker: The World Trade Center hub, much like every other project centered around Ground Zero, won’t open until at least a year later than expected. The Port Authority announced today that the completion date on Santiago Calatrava’s [...]
While the subways are no longer the hotbed for graffiti that they were in the 1970s and 1980s, the MTA is still combatting subway taggers. To that end, they’ve appointed a new squad of retired police officers to patrol popular train yards and catch taggers in the act. While this squad should be beneficial to [...]
Over the long holiday weekend, I took a trip to the movies to catch I Am Legend, the latest in New York City destruction. While Will Smith, the only surviving human on the island of Manhattan, shuns what I imagine to be a deserted subway in exchange for his product-placed Ford cars, I couldn’t help [...]
I hope this pigeon paid its $2-fare to board this train. (Photo by flickr user mortimer777)
It’s all about the money these days with the MTA. In light of what many perceive to be an unfair fare hike, critics and newspapers alike are concentrating more and more on the little things that impact the MTA economically. [...]
Just a short reminder that all New York City Transit buses and subways are operating on a Sunday schedule for Christmas today. So if you plan to wait for a B, V or W, you’ll be waiting until Wednesday. Merry Christmas.
It’s grade time, baby! After a few weeks of silence — and missing grades for the Q and W — the MTA issued some Rider Report Cards on Friday. The E and the G, the train everyone loves to the hate, both received their results, and they both landed D-pluses. That’s pretty sad.
Let’s start [...]
Trains are running on a Sunday schedule on Tuesday. I’ll remind you again then, if anyone’s reading. Seeing as how Christmas isn’t really my holiday, I’ll have updates five days next week. And now your service alerts. Happy holidays to those of you gone until January.
From 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., Saturday, December 22 [...]
Last weekend, I went train-hunting. After standing around at the 2nd Ave. station for about an hour, two of my friends and I caught the Nostalgia Train. What follows are my images from that ride to Queens Plaza. You can still catch the Nostalgia Train this Sunday and next along the V line.
