Tag: subway

Fastrack returns!

A man was hit by a northbound C train at the 96th Street station this morning at around 8:08 a.m., but was not expected to die, the NYPD just told us. No criminality is suspected in the incident, but it's otherwise still under investigation. “The train operator actually saw the ...

March 19, 2012 Weather: Sunny, High of 71 Degrees.

March 2, 2012 Weather: Mostly Cloudy, High of 44 Degrees.

A second person was hit by a 2 train at the 72nd Street Broadway-line subway station just before noon, after another man was hit early this morning, an NYPD spokesperson told us. The 33-year-old white male involved in the second incident was taken to St. Luke's Hospital on 114th Street ...

This week, the 1, 2, and 3 will be shut down below 34th Street from Monday through Friday from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. to allow for work on the track. The MTA is shutting the subways down entirely so it can get the work done faster and more safely, ...

A man fell onto the train tracks at the 66th Street subway station this morning, and was trapped there for half an hour as rescue crews extricated him. The man, who news agencies said was "disheveled" and possibly homeless, survived the fall with injuries to his head and pelvis. The ...

October 27, 2011 Weather: Rain, High of 54 Degrees

The experiment that began this week allowing people to use their cell phones inside four Chelsea subway stations (but not in the trains themselves, and only on AT&T and T-Mobile) will be spreading to every station on the Upper West Side south of 96th Street within a year, the MTA ...

September 22, 2011 Weather: Thundershowers, High of 74 Degrees. News: The American Folk Art Museum will continue operating at its current Lincoln Square location, after trustees had considered disbanding the collection and closing down. The museum got a last-minute infusion of cash from the Ford Foundation and the trustees. (NY ...

A water main break on 106th Street and Central Park West appears to have flooded the B and C subway line today, which could make the commute very hairy this afternoon.

Would you like to ride in a subway car with ceiling fans, no air conditioning, and windows that are wide open? You can achieve that very dream this weekend and for the rest of September, as the HBO show Boardwalk Empire puts authentic 1920's-era subway cars on the 2,3 line ...

William Gibbs, a suspect in a string of Chelsea muggings targeting elderly men, is thought to have struck on the Upper West Side on Wednesday, assaulting and robbing an 85-year-old man at the B/C station on 72nd Street. The mugger grabbed the victim by his neck and threw him to ...

Have you noticed that 1 trains don't seem to be coming as frequently? I thought at first that I was just becoming more impatient, but it turns out that the MTA cut service without telling anyone or holding hearings. NY1 reported that the MTA reduced the number of rush hour ...