This is going to be some weekend in New York City.
We’re kicking things off tonight with one of the craziest nights of the year. When Halloween falls on a Friday, the city is in for a treat. At the stroke of midnight, the subways turn back into pumpkins as the myriad service alerts [...]

As I sat in the last car of my Coney Island-bound F train en route to 7th Ave., I glanced up to check out the placard ads decorating the car. My eyes quickly landed on the SubTalk ad. It was promoting the Second Ave. Subway!
As you can see — and if you can’t, click the above [...]

In two weeks, the MTA is going to issue a revised financial outlook for 2009, and everyone is expecting a call for a fairly substantial fare increase. At the same time, the MTA is clearly planning on cutting services, as Pete Donohue reported today. It’s important to note that these services do not include train [...]

Things did not look good for me when I arrived down on the platform at 7th Ave. in Brooklyn at around 8:40 a.m. yesterday morning. A Q train was pulling in, and I thought I’d hop it to DeKalb and switch to my W. 4th St-bound B.
There was but one catch. This Q [...]

I’m not taking about pictures of new cars or sparkling tunnels. I’m talking about real pornography on someone’s iPod. According to Free Williamsburg writer Brian Ries, one of the passengers on his L train this morning was watching pornography, and the entire car knew about it. Perhaps a crowded train at rush hour isn’t the [...]

In 2003, the MTA opened up a fancy new bus depot on 100th St. between Lexington and Park. Five years later, the depot is already in need of substantial repairs. The walls are buckling, and bricks have fallen from the building. While some critics will claim this as par for the MTA’s course, it is [...]

We’ve all shared in that familiar experience of knowing that we’re going to miss the train.
We get to the top of the staircase, and we can hear the train pulling in. We swipe through the turnstile, pushing back against a wave of passengers pouring of the gate. We hear the announcement. “Stand clear [...]

For an unprecedented second time this year, the MTA will soon be revising its budget projections, according to a report in Metro. Earlier this year, the MTA updated its financials to project a $900 million budget deficit. As the markets have crashed since that number was released, the agency will meet again to pour over [...]

Elliot Sander, the MTA’s first CEO and Executive Director, has a tough job right now. He’s supposed to be wielding the power once left to the chairman of the MTA’s board, and he’s supposed to be guiding a beleaguered public-benefit corporation through some very tough economic times.
While I think Sander has done an [...]

In an effort to boost their revenue streams, the MTA has ramped up enforcement efforts against those who attempt to avoid paying their $2 fare. For the cops, it seems, these efforts have been paying off as around 400 of the 7000 people arrested per month have outstanding warrants for more serious crimes. In light [...]