Get out while you still can! Run for the hills! Jet to the beach! It’s the Unofficial End of Summer. We all have to go back inside and wear jackets and long-sleeve shirts on Tuesday. Panic!
Ok, ok. Maybe Labor day isn’t that bad, but with the way New Yorkers behave, you’d think the world were [...]
According to recent reports, by the time Port Authority gets around to wrapping work on its World Trade Center Transit Hub, we’ll have lived through two more Presidential elections not counting the current race. Downtown Express reported last week that the Hub won’t be open until 2016 at the earliest. Meanwhile, The Times reports that, [...]
Yesterday evening, at around 6:40, I had to get myself from 44th St. between 5th and 6th Aves. to 55th St. between 8th and 9th Aves. I could have walked, but I had been carrying around a really heavy backpack all day. So as I walked by 47th St., my Unlimited MetroCard and I [...]
I love it when the MTA’s efforts at painting make the news. Last July, we saw the MTA paralyzed by indecision because they couldn’t figure out which stations to paint. Seven months later, in February, the MTA finally announce plans for an absurdly slow plan to paint every station. Today’s news is just as [...]
Does New York need another master builder? asked The Times’ Jennifer 8. Lee yesterday. As nothing big grows in the city year after year, city planners and reporters often wonder if we need someone who can, like Moses did, Get Things Done. Of course, one would hope in the 21st century, Getting Things Done would [...]
They come from the midwest, the southeast. They come from up north and out west, from Boston and Maine and from St. Louis and San Francisco. For a bunch of jaded grad students and bright-eyed 18-year-olds, the last week in August marks the ever-popular orientation period while recent grads, through with their summers away from [...]
Eight days ago, I told you about plans to include space for transit on the new span set to replace the Goethals Bridge replacement. Yesterday, Mobilizing the Region presented background on the transit aspects of the plan and a fancy set of renderings for the project. While construction isn’t set to begin until 2011, we [...]
Rare are the days when I, as a blogger, venture into the world of partisan politics. Those grounds are covered by people with more time for blogger than I have, and I like to keep my focus on news and views from the subway. Sure, most regular readers have probably picked up my liberal [...]
A reader writes:
Need your help, want to get a gift for my Friend’s dad. He worked for MTA and in the 50’s and 60’s rode the #5 Dyre Ave line to his Aunts. Would you know what model subway ran that line. Was it the Lo-V’s or the R26…They have models of these cars and [...]
In last week’s issue of the Downtown Express, Laura Latzko examined handicapped access and the subways. As we know, many subway stops aren’t very handicap-accessible, and Latzko’s story highlights how many key hubs are lacking in amenities and how handicapped riders have to change their routes to get around the city.
More important, though, is [...]
