The only blog written from the NYC Subway system

SUBWAYblogger’s back! After a 2 day mini vacation, we’re back in the city. Having been a subway-only rider for so long now, car travel actually makes me sick. Within minutes of hitting the road, that car sick feeling started to settle in. All that damn stop-and-go movement. The trip was nice. Relaxing. Better than sitting [...]

Well gang, I’m sorry to report that there will be no afternoon posting today or morning post on Thursday. Why? SUBWAYblogger will be on a mini vacation that takes us outside the reaches of the NYC subway. But never fear, SUBWAYblogger will return Thursday afternoon! Sit tight and we’ll chat then. Live from the subway, [...]

The one upside to the colder weather is that you don’t feel like death while you wait for the train. When winter rolls around, everyone is bundled up right down to the snow pants. The complete opposite of the summer time. This generally means an all around comfortable ride. Even if the heat isn’t working [...]

If you had to, what subway station would you live in? Ok, so maybe this question is a little heavy for this early in the morning, but you have to figure it is an important question if you are a bum. Some stations are clearly in much worse shape than others, yet there are still [...]

It was the day from hell if you were trying to catch a bus in midtown today. The Port Authority Bus Terminal was closed for hours! There were reports of a crazy guy who refused to get off a Grayhound bus. His outburst caused the police to shut down entire sections of the terminal. So [...]

A couple minutes here or there really makes the difference for me in the morning. If I get to the subway a couple minutes early, I end up riding with a bunch of high school kids, and that is too much to handle this early in the morning. Leave it to me to have the [...]

If you’re a rider of the 1 train, you’ve probably seen this guy a time or two.  However, I’ve never seen his little dance until just now.

“When is the next train coming? Don’t ask the MTA.” -NY Post Siemens has totally f’ed up the software they were supposed to create to power the subway system’s digital message boards.  Back in 2003, Siemens won the $160 million contract to create the system which would tell subway riders when the next train would [...]