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05/21/2012 - 17:10 |
Posted In: Midtown & Hells Kitchen
Work crews were set to continue the daunting task of connecting the Long Island Rail Road's (LIRR) Main and Port Washington lines...
Read More: East Side Access, Grand Central Terminal, Long Island Rail Road, MTA
05/15/2012 - 14:10 |
Posted In: Flatiron & Gramercy
The MTA proposed a 34th Street Bus Service plan that would speed up routes at the expense of two stops, according to DNAinfo.
The...
04/10/2012 - 11:21 |
Posted In: SoHo TriBeCa & FiDi
In SoHo, residents are advocating for the creation of a park plaza on the southeast corner of Broadway and East Houston to offset...
Read More: Economic Development Corporation, MTA, Parks, Sean Sweeney, Soho Alliance
04/05/2012 - 12:37 |
Posted In: Midtown & Hells Kitchen
According to NBC New York, the crane that collapsed at the No. 7 Subway line construction site Tuesday evening, killing a construc...
Read More: Christine Quinn, Construction Accident, Michael Simemeyer, MTA, No. 7 Subway Line
03/23/2012 - 18:57 |
Posted In:
Monday
A Queens commuter ousted Michael Bloomberg himself as the mayor of City Hall.
CB2 gave Stephen Starr's newest West Village...
03/20/2012 - 12:06 |
Posted In: Upper East Side
The MTA has tried to dismiss worries surrounding the potential health hazards at the Second Avenue Subway construction site, after...
03/19/2012 - 13:43 |
Posted In: Upper East Side
The construction at the 2nd Avenue Subway has lead to a flurry of complaints about the ‘flurries’ in the air.
The Occupationa...
03/16/2012 - 15:48 |
Posted In: East Village & LES
Michael Torres, accused of raping a woman inside the Bowery subway station last month, has been formally charged with the crime, T...
Read More: Michael Torres, MTA, sexual assaults, Violent Crimes
03/08/2012 - 17:20 |
Posted In: Upper East Side
As if construction on the Second Avenue Subway hasn't caused enough headaches - literally - for Upper East Side residents, more th...
Read More: Community Board 8, Department of Transportation, MTA, Second Avenue Subway
02/29/2012 - 12:08 |
Posted In: Upper West Side
A man was struck by an uptown bound 1 train at the 72nd Street station just before 8 a.m., sustaining injuries so serious that one...
Read More: 1 Train, MTA, Roosevelt Hospital, Subway Accidents
02/21/2012 - 12:23 |
Posted In: SoHo TriBeCa & FiDi
New design renderings offer a look into the highly anticipated Fulton Street Transit Center. The modern $1.4 billion station is sc...
Read More: Corbin Building, Dey Street, Fulton Street Transit Center, MTA, World Trade Center
02/14/2012 - 11:51 |
Posted In: Midtown & Hells Kitchen
Early this week, the MTA completed the tunneling for the 7 train extension to 11th Avenue and finished constructing the mezzanine....
Read More: 34th Street Subway, MTA, No. 7 Subway Line
02/10/2012 - 16:43 |
Posted In:
There's big deals going on at the "Smallest Traveling Store in the World."
Per Se and French Laundry decided to pull a switch-a-ro...
Read More: best pizza, David Schwimmer, Department of Health, Department of Transportation, Fashion week, J&R Jr., Le Bernardin, Megabus, Metropolitan Museum of Art, MTA, New Stores, New York Historical Society, NYC Chocolate Week, Port Authority, Strand Bookstore, Things to Do, Things to Do With Kids, Times Square, Union Square
02/10/2012 - 12:32 |
Posted In: East Village & LES
An MTA worker walking along the tracks inside the Bowery J train stop saved a woman from a violent sex attacker, the Daily News re...
Read More: Attempted Rapes, J Train, Michael Torres, MTA, NYPD, Violent Crimes
02/06/2012 - 13:55 |
Posted In: Upper East Side
The Second Avenue Subway Line is slowly grinding closer to completion, with the first phase, which runs from 96th to 63rd Street,...
Read More: Arts for Transit, Jean Shin, MTA, Sandra Bloodworth, Sarah Sze, Second Avenue Subway
01/27/2012 - 16:07 |
Posted In:
After reopening, and closing the next day thanks to the DOH, Jay-Z's 40/40 Club is back in business.
Brooklynites will have an eas...
01/27/2012 - 11:55 |
Posted In: Upper East Side
While construction on the Second Avenue Subway has brought excessive noise, hoards of flies, decreased revenue for local businesse...
01/26/2012 - 15:23 |
Posted In: Upper East Side
Here's one rare example of a train that runs ahead of schedule. Grand Central Terminal and the Long Island Rail Road will be meeti...
Read More: Dragados, East Side Access, Grand Central Terminal, LIRR, Long Island City, MTA, Penn Station, Sunnyside
01/26/2012 - 13:24 |
Posted In: Upper East Side
Second Avenue subway construction is starting to irritate its Upper East Side neighbors; or, to be more specific, their sinuses.
M...
01/13/2012 - 18:50 |
Posted In: Harlem
According to Amsterdam News, a suicide this morning at the 125th Street subway station forced the station to close.
A 65-year-old...
01/12/2012 - 11:17 |
Posted In: Upper East Side
A woman was hit by an MTA bus this morning on the Upper East Side, according to the New York Post.
The woman suffered life-threate...
Read More: m86 bus, MTA, New York Hospital, Traffic Accidents
01/09/2012 - 18:15 |
Posted In: Brooklyn Heights & DUMBO
Forget a secret garden (although there is that). This building has a secret, eight-story urban playground.
Well, maybe “playground...
Read More: Community Board 2, MTA, Secret Gardens
01/05/2012 - 15:37 |
Posted In: Upper East Side
A new block association is giving the MTA a brand new headache.
Co-op and townhouse owners on East 69th Street have joined togethe...
12/27/2011 - 14:08 |
Posted In: SoHo TriBeCa & FiDi
Let there be light.
Although the Fulton Street Transit Center doesn't figure to open before 2014, its most distinctive component i...
Read More: Fulton Street Transit Center, MTA, Uday Durg
12/12/2011 - 15:55 |
Posted In: East Village & LES
When the buses and trains are unreliable you take to the streets and debate on hailing and paying for a cab. When that doesn't wor...
Read More: MTA, New York Waterway, NYCHA, Robert Steele, Sheldon Silver
12/03/2011 - 13:06 |
Posted In: East Village & LES
This morning I took a step back in time on the MTA's Holiday Train. Eight subway cars from the 70s have been restored and are ru...
Read More: Holiday Things to Do, Holiday Trains, MTA, Queens plaza
12/02/2011 - 12:08 |
Posted In: Midtown & Hells Kitchen
Under investigation? There's an app for that.
A new Apple Store will be opening at the Grand Central Terminal on the East Balcony,...
Read More: Apple Store, Grand Central Terminal, Linda Rosenthal, MTA
12/02/2011 - 10:58 |
Posted In: Midtown & Hells Kitchen
A ride on the M50 might last longer than Kim Kardashian's marriage.
The bus was awarded the unenviable Pokey Award for slowest bus...
Read More: crosstown bus service, MTA
11/23/2011 - 10:54 |
Posted In: Upper East Side
The Metropolitan Transit Authority has temporarily halted all blasting on the new 2nd Avenue subway line. Construction has ceased...
Read More: 2nd Avenue Subway, MTA, subway construction
11/22/2011 - 15:50 |
Posted In: Midtown & Hells Kitchen
Quick - do a search on your iPad.
Oh, you don't have one? Don't worry, there just might be a new Apple store opening in Grand Cent...
Read More: Apple Store, Grand Central Terminal, MTA
11/14/2011 - 16:45 |
Posted In: Upper East Side
The Second Avenue Subway line can't seem to catch a break.
After complaints of the construction site attracting hoards of fli...
Read More: MTA, Second Avenue Subway
11/02/2011 - 10:41 |
Posted In: Chelsea
At a press conference held yesterday, stakeholders announced their committment to the continued preservation of the High Line at t...
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10/29/2011 - 14:07 |
Posted In: Upper East Side
“I love the subway. It gets me from A to B like that!” announced my long term pal from college as she burst into my apartment sadd...
Read More: Assault, confidential crime stoppers, Crime, Human sexuality, MTA, MTA Safety, sexual assaults, subway, Subway Assault, Subway Crime, Subway Sex
10/25/2011 - 11:29 |
Posted In: Midtown & Hells Kitchen
A woman was attacked last month inside the A/C/E station at West. 50th Street and Eighth Avenue in broad daylight, and police are...
Read More: Kelly Chorba, MTA, NYPD, Robberies, subways
10/18/2011 - 11:24 |
Posted In: Uptown
Train commuters will no longer have to stare at the grubby, grimy, graffiti-stained walls and floors waiting for the uptown 1 trai...
Read More: 168th subway station, 181st subway station, Deidre Parker, MTA, No. 1 train
10/13/2011 - 15:44 |
Posted In: Midtown & Hells Kitchen
A week after Murray Hill residents told transportation officials that the plan for 34th Street Select Bus Service needed more work...
Read More: 34th street, Buses, Department of Transportation, MTA, Select Bus Service
10/10/2011 - 13:48 |
Posted In: SoHo TriBeCa & FiDi
Not exactly the most famous street in New York City, Charlton Street in Hudson Square did hold a distinguished spot on the city's...
Read More: Charlton Street, Hudson Square, John Tauranac, MTA, Subway maps
10/10/2011 - 12:06 |
Posted In: Flatiron & Gramercy
Murray Hill residents told transportation officals to keep working after they were presented with an outline for the proposed 34th...
Read More: 34th street, Department of Transportation, Eric Beaton, MTA
10/07/2011 - 12:28 |
Posted In: Upper East Side
Proposed renovations to the East 68th Street station has some Upper East Side residents fuming and accusing the MTA of using the A...
10/04/2011 - 12:19 |
Posted In: Williamsburg & Greenpoint
Are you hanging onto a strap? You should be.
NBC 4 reports the L train, the enemy of anyone and everyone coming to and from Willia...
Read More: Daniel Squadron, L train, MTA, subways
09/30/2011 - 12:36 |
Posted In: Flatiron & Gramercy
Last Monday the MTA debuted its latest zoetrope, "Union Square in Motion," in the Union Square subway station, which consists of t...
09/23/2011 - 10:47 |
Posted In: Upper East Side
You're going to dig this!
Digging ended on the Second Avenue Subway yesterday, a big step in extending the Q line north to 96th St...
Read More: MTA, Q Train, Second Avenue Subway
09/20/2011 - 09:26 |
Posted In: Upper West Side
This is one wave nobody wants to ride.
A burst water main at Central Park West and 106th Street sent three feet of water flooding...
Read More: Central Park West, MTA, subways, Water Main Breaks
09/19/2011 - 12:13 |
Posted In: East Village & LES
Land, it's the only thing they're not making any more of.
That hard truth is forcing three urban enthusiasts to target two acres f...
Read More: Dan Barasch, High Line, James Ramsey, Joshua David, Low Line, MTA, Parks, R. Boykin Curry IV, Robert Hammond
09/06/2011 - 10:38 |
Posted In: Upper West Side
The MTA has released data that gives a turnstile at Columbus Circle the honor of being the most frequently used in the city, Gotha...
Read More: Most Used Turnstiles, MTA
08/23/2011 - 10:26 |
Posted In: Upper East Side
Patience is a virtue most New Yorkers don't possess and it's not going to get any easier.
According to a new report from the...
Read More: 2nd Avenue Subway, Federal Transit Adminstration, MTA, subway construction
08/16/2011 - 10:23 |
Posted In: Midtown & Hells Kitchen
New Yorkers looking to take a bite out of the new Apple store opening in the Grand Central Terminal will be excited to see the new...
08/03/2011 - 10:21 |
Posted In: SoHo TriBeCa & FiDi
The MTA has been pretty busy with the development of the Fulton Street Transit Center. According to amNY, the MTA finally revealed...
08/01/2011 - 11:05 |
Posted In: Brooklyn Heights & DUMBO
State Senator Daniel Squadron announced two dramatic steps forward on Old Fulton Street that will improve quality of life and crea...
Read More: 84th Precinct, B25, Daniel Squadron, Fulton Ferry Landing Association, Joan Zimmerman, MTA, NYCDOT
07/26/2011 - 13:19 |
Posted In: Chelsea
The days of being detached from the Internet while underground are coming to an end at four Chelsea stations. L train station...
Read More: Aaron Donovan, MTA, Wi-Fi
07/25/2011 - 11:55 |
Posted In: Midtown & Hells Kitchen
It's a topic that's been talked about for some time now, a rumor or two that has been spread and turned into headlining stories th...
Read More: Apple Store, Grand Central Terminal, MTA
07/21/2011 - 13:11 |
Posted In: Uptown
For those of you who are wondering what, in the name of snapdragons, is going on with the plywood-shrouded, block-long bus depot s...
Read More: Bus Depot, Harlem, Mother Clara Hale Bus Depot, MTA
07/21/2011 - 11:52 |
Posted In: Midtown & Hells Kitchen
The last bit of undeveloped land in New York is soon to be overrun with office buildings, residential towers, a mall, a school and...
Read More: Coach, Hudson Yards, MTA, Related Companies
07/18/2011 - 14:13 |
Posted In: Uptown
Inwood's Sherman Creek waterfront is getting a makeover. As a part of Mayor Bloomberg's Vision 2020, a revitilization project...
Read More: Con Edison, Harlem River, Inwood, Michael Bloomberg, MTA, Sherman Creek, Vision 2020, Waterfront Development
07/12/2011 - 10:35 |
Posted In: East Village & LES
State Senator Daniel Squadron called for an MTA review of service on the L and F lines, following a new report on weekend ridershi...
Read More: F train, John Prendergast, L train, MTA, New York City Transit
06/30/2011 - 09:51 |
Posted In: Park Slope & Prospect Heights
Two men attempted to rob a subway booth at the Prospect Park Q stop in Brooklyn a little after 5:00 a.m. on Thursday, June 30. Aft...
06/26/2011 - 21:20 |
Posted In: Upper East Side
If you live near the 2nd Avenue subway construction route, you are no stranger to the all too familiar thick dust cloud that has t...
Read More: 2nd Avenue Subway, Community Board 8, MTA
06/17/2011 - 09:41 |
Posted In: West Village & Greenwich Village
An empty plot of land in Greenwhich Village will have a brand new ventilation system built by the MTA if a design for the structur...
Read More: Landmarks Preservation Committee, MTA, Mulry Square, Tiles for America
06/03/2011 - 13:46 |
Posted In: Upper East Side
A woman was fatally struck by a subway car after falling onto its tracks at 3:09 p.m. Wednesday afternoon on the Upper East Side,...
Read More: Fatoumata Diallo, MTA, No. 6 Train, Subway Accidents
06/01/2011 - 13:48 |
Posted In: West Village & Greenwich Village
Last week, we took readers through the tumultuous history of the MTA’s attempts to design an aesthetically appropriate Emergency V...
05/25/2011 - 13:53 |
Posted In: West Village & Greenwich Village
Mulry Square
Next Tuesday, May 31st, the MTA will present its final proposed designs for an emergency ventilation plant on Mulry...
Read More: Community Board 2, MTA, Mulry Square, Tiles for America
05/18/2011 - 11:59 |
Posted In: Midtown & Hells Kitchen
Subway performers have been a part of the NYC experience for what feels like forever. But now a new trend is starting: the MTA hel...
Read More: Grand Central Terminal, MTA, Music Under New York, Subway performers
05/12/2011 - 11:40 |
Posted In: Midtown & Hells Kitchen
Three adults on a packed No. 5 subway train were hit with pepper spray late Wednesday, all of which started with a woman spraying...
Read More: MTA, No. 5 Train, Pepper Spray
05/06/2011 - 14:00 |
Posted In: Upper East Side
Construction on the Second Avenue Subway is underway and photographer Joseph M. Calisi got a behind-the-scenes look into the...
Read More: 2nd Avenue Subway, Construction, MTA, T Line
05/02/2011 - 14:08 |
Posted In: Midtown & Hells Kitchen
The recent news of the death of Osama bin Laden has caused security forces, especially in New York City, to increase their presenc...
Read More: MTA, Osama bin Laden, Penn Station, September 11
04/20/2011 - 13:42 |
Posted In: SoHo TriBeCa & FiDi
A homeless man stabbed a passenger in the face on the No. 3 train Tuesday after she tried to convince him out of smoking, the NY D...
Read More: 3 Train, Caroberto Cordero, City Department of Homeless, Evelyn Seeger, MTA, Stabbings, subways
04/19/2011 - 13:01 |
Posted In: Midtown & Hells Kitchen
The M50 bus line that runs from Turtle Bay to the West Side will revert back to running on the weekend if the board approves, acco...
04/11/2011 - 14:04 |
Posted In: East Village & LES
East Village artist VH McKenzie is known for her paintings on NYC Metrocards, but the MTA is none too pleased, claiming copyright...
Read More: Etsy, Metrocards, MTA, VH McKenzie
04/08/2011 - 09:51 |
Posted In: SoHo TriBeCa & FiDi
The Fulton Street Transit Center is more than half way complete and is well on its way to being completed in 2014, according to th...
Read More: Fulton Street Transit Center, MTA, subway construction
04/07/2011 - 13:44 |
Posted In: West Village & Greenwich Village
Trains were halted for over two hours on Wednesday, April 6, after a man was run over and killed by a B train at the West 4th Stre...
Read More: B Train, MTA, Subway Accidents, Subway Deaths
04/01/2011 - 11:26 |
Posted In: East Village & LES
It's been about six months since William Leroy, owner of Billy's Antiques & Props on East Houston Street, won his case with th...
Read More: Antiques, Billy's Antiques & Props, MTA, William Leroy
03/28/2011 - 10:25 |
Posted In: Upper East Side
Investigators have located the MTA Express bus and driver that struck and killed a delivery man on the Upper East Side late Friday...
Read More: 2nd Avenue Subway, Bus Crash Upper East Side, MTA, NYPD, Qi Ming Weng, Yorkville
03/18/2011 - 11:54 |
Posted In: Upper East Side
Think hoarding was a downtown New York thing? Not a chance. Seems like Upper East Siders (despite the seemingly impenetrable bubbl...
Read More: 2nd Avenue Subway, Hoarding, MTA, NYPD, Phyllis Battista
03/03/2011 - 11:49 |
Posted In: Upper East Side
Upper East Side straphangers, you're in for a treat because the 77th Street subway station has been overrun with flowers. Not unli...
02/24/2011 - 15:33 |
Posted In: East Village & LES
In the early morning hours of Thursday, February 24, a man was struck by a Brooklyn-bound F train at the East Broadway subway stat...
02/23/2011 - 13:23 |
Posted In: Upper East Side
The latest Second Avenue subway drama hit the books last week when residents of the Yorkshire Towers at 315 East 86th Street filed...
02/18/2011 - 17:16 |
Posted In: Chelsea
According to DNAinfo, subway platforms in Chelsea will be the first in New York City to receive cellular and Wi-Fi service. Transi...
02/18/2011 - 11:47 |
Posted In: Midtown & Hells Kitchen
Gloria Aguilar, a Manhattan housekeeper who lost the lower part of her left leg and had her right leg rendered useless after...
Read More: bus accident, Gloria Aguilar, MTA
01/24/2011 - 14:23 |
Posted In: Midtown & Hells Kitchen
The New York Post reports that a 38-year old man managed to survive a "suicidal leap" this Sunday, January 23 in the Times Sq...
Read More: MTA, New York City Subway, Suicide, Times Square
01/23/2011 - 00:34 |
Posted In:
This weekend people flipped out on the Bus. It was obviously not the guy above, because he is straight chilling. For the 475th tim...
01/19/2011 - 12:41 |
Posted In: Flatiron & Gramercy
The gruesome story of Michael Dion getting pinned between a train and a moving platform was less-than shocking in lieu of the stat...
Read More: Michael Dion, MTA, MTA Lawsuit, New York City Subway, NYC Transit, Union Square, Union Square Station
01/17/2011 - 12:35 |
Posted In: Midtown & Hells Kitchen
After well-known Portuguese journalist Carlos Castro, was murdered in a horrific mutilation at The InterContinental Times Square h...
01/10/2011 - 13:42 |
Posted In: Midtown & Hells Kitchen
In the throes of the morning commute, a bus accident injured a group of people on Eighth Avenue, as reported by NBC New York. Just...
Read More: bus accident, FDNY, MTA, NYC hospitals, traffic accident
01/03/2011 - 11:11 |
Posted In: Flatiron & Gramercy
A recent endeavor by the MTA to properly inspect and provide maintenance to train signals will also include examining sliding exte...
Read More: MTA, MTA Safety, New York City Subway, Train Signals, Union Square
12/28/2010 - 15:53 |
Posted In: East Village & LES
East Village residents are carefully maneuvering themselves around the icy after the post-Christmas blizzards – including lo...
Read More: Alphabet City, East Village, MTA, NYPD, Snowpocalypse
12/21/2010 - 09:59 |
Posted In: SoHo TriBeCa & FiDi
The New York Post reports on Tuesday, December 21, that a man in possession of 'an MTA vest and a key that opens subway turnst...
Read More: Chamber Street subway, Ennis Fowler, Free Things To Do In NYC, Key Con Artist, MTA, Tribeca
12/20/2010 - 18:01 |
Posted In:
Perhaps you have noticed the new subway banners declaring, 'Our Apps are Whiz Kid Certified.' These catchy, if slight...
Read More: MTA, Paul J. Fleuranges, subways
12/16/2010 - 11:50 |
Posted In: West Village & Greenwich Village
After a man who stabbed two people to death last March on a Greenwich Village train escaped, West Village and Greenwich Village re...
Read More: Greenwich Village, MTA, MTA Security Cameras, Stabbing, subway security, West Village
12/13/2010 - 12:27 |
Posted In:
Reading about Jimmy McMillan doesn’t do him justice. Seeing (and in this case) hearing him is the only way to truly understand the...
Read More: Andrew Cuomo, Cathie Black, Jimmy McMillan, MTA, Rent Is Too Damn High, World Trade Center
10/18/2010 - 10:45 |
Posted In: Upper East Side
While MTA spokesman Kevin Ortiz is 'cognizant' of the many issues plaguing Second Avenue subway sites due to ongoing const...
Read More: 2nd Avenue Subway, Kevin Ortiz, MTA, mta spokesman kevin, New York City Subway
09/30/2010 - 10:04 |
Posted In: SoHo TriBeCa & FiDi
An unidentified twenty-something man was found on the tracks of the World Trade Center-bound E train tracks in the early morning o...
08/27/2010 - 11:29 |
Posted In: SoHo TriBeCa & FiDi
NY Times reports some good news for the theater company, 3-Legged Dog. The company’s landlord, the MTA, has agreed to...
Read More: 3-legged dog, MTA, theater company, Theatres, Tony Award
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