Archive for the 'General' Category

Remembering the subways on Thanksgiving

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007

On Thanksgiving, it’s always nice to recognize those things for which we are thankful. As an regular reader of this site knows, I am at all times thanksful for New York City’s subway system. But why?
Presented below are a few of the reasons why I’m thanking the MTA and New York City Transit today. [...]

SAS to Brooklyn Record: We’re in a fight

Thursday, March 15th, 2007

Pardon me while I use my blog to air my petty grievances. I’ll be back with your regularly scheduled subway posting later today.
Dear Brooklyn Record:
Let’s start out on a good note: I like you! After living in Manhattan for much of my childhood, I’m now living in Brooklyn, and you have given me a good [...]

No, seriously, check me out

Friday, March 2nd, 2007

While our e-mails crossed paths and I wasn’t able to be interviewed for this article, Second Ave. Sagas garnered a mention in Annie Karni’s excellent piece in today’s Sun about subway bloggers. Check it out:
Local blogs, such as secondavenuesagas.com, have launched in the past few months to track and comment on the progress of the [...]

Breaking down the NYC Blogger Summit

Thursday, February 1st, 2007

With the promise of free food, WNBC last night lured over 100 New York City bloggers into Studios 6A and 6B at 30 Rock to discuss the future of blogging and television journalist. Set up by Erin Monteiro, the NYC Blogger Summit made for an interesting evening of MSM/Blogosphere mingling. (How much more cliched could [...]

What’s your resolution?

Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007

This has absolutely nothing to do with the subway or all the skinny women who fall on the tracks and delay your commute. But this was too good to pass up. It’s the automatic New Years Resolution generator.
For fun, I’m going to draw up ten resolutions by alternating between the “I want to start something” [...]

The Morning Commute: 12/1/06

Friday, December 1st, 2006

Today marks the first day of a new feature The Morning Commute, a round-up of some of the top transportation stories from the Big Apple.

Peter Kalikow, MTA head, will step down in 2007. Or Governor-elect Eliot Spitzer will fire him. [NY1]

Remember those plans to add cell phone service to the subway a la Washington, D.C.? [...]

New York on subways

Tuesday, November 21st, 2006

Welcome to Second Ave. Sagas, a blog about the New York City subway.
I’m a native New Yorker and a huge subway buff. I like riding the trains; I like reading about the trains; I like being on the trains that run for hundreds of miles underneath (and sometimes above) the streets of New York. And [...]