Just in case you missed it when the Daily News ran an easy-to-understand graphic showing that ridership on the Staten Island Railway was up 12.8 percent this year, amNew York’s got your back. New York’s free daily profiled the SIR yesterday, focusing on the exploding ridership and the quirks of the free train line. While [...]
I warned ‘em but to no avail. Yesterday, the MTA board members — or at least those who decided to show up — had to face a room full of pissed off Staten Islanders, and based on reports in the Staten Island Advance and on NY1, it was not a pretty scene.
At the last [...]
The only New York City Transit rail line on which I’ve never ridden. (Photo by Chris Slaight / NYCSubway.org)
Yesterday’s discussion of Staten Island got me thinking more about the city’s forgotten borough. Did you know, for instance, that Staten Island nearly seceded from New York City in the early 1990s?
But civil politics are neither here [...]
Ask any Staten Islander how the rest of New York City views the oft-forgotten borough, and more often than not, the answer is last and least. The MTA, according to residents of the Island, is no exception.
One week after the traveling fare hike hearing circus hit the road and made its way through the [...]
Poor Staten Island. The forgotten bastard borough of New York City — as its residents would prefer it to be — we often forget that Staten Island has its very own railway. In fact, the SIR doesn’t have a board on the Facebook Subway Status app while the Roosevelt Island Tram does.
It’s an odd [...]
This new stop sure is creating an uproar in certain parts of the city. (Courtesy of the MTA)
Staten Island, the lone borough in which this New York City native has only traveled through and never to, is mad at the city and the MTA. Two councilmen from this oft-neglected borough feel the $91 million spent [...]
