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Part of the holiday cheer in NYC comes from the many nightly holiday events. Moments ago, the tree was lit in Lincoln Center.
SUBWAYblogger hoofed it over to check it out. The spread begins all the way down at Columbus Circle with many of the Time Warner Center’s business giving away stuff on the streets.
I made [...]

(There was a bit of an email glitch this morning that held up the morning posting.  Sorry for the delay, we’ve fixed the issue!)
Well, the end of Thanksgiving weekend marks the start of Christmas in New York City. Sure, most stores have had the decorations up since…ohh…4th of July or so. But now we are [...]

Michael Harris, and his motorized wheelchair, got off the 5 train in Brooklyn last week only to find that the elevator to street level was out of service. First of all, big freakin’ surprise. Anyway, he went to the station agent to told him to get back on a train and go back [...]

Just because it is a holiday doesn’t mean that the MTA isn’t up to stuff.  The latest news is that the MTA is going to look into getting some $$$ from Citigroup to rename the subway stops at Shea stadium.  Yeah, so the new stadium is going to have a corporate name, so who cares [...]

I love when packs of little latino girls think that I can’t understand them when they speak spanish. Well, guess what, I can.
I especially love when they cop an attitude in spanish. I let them rant on and on about how dare I stand close to them in a crowed train. They spew on and [...]

…there could ever possibly be to see in the subway, this shows up.  Semi NSFW.

Brothers and sisters, we are reminded yet again how much better the subway is for getting around this island called Manhattan. As if the pre-holiday rush weren’t enough, there was a major crash on the West Side Highway just after 4pm. A car headed north bound crashed and rolled over the divider into [...]

Many predict that today will be almost as bad as Wednesday in terms of commuter traffic. People are leaving the city for Thanksgiving today in an effort to avoid the insanity of tomorrow.
Unforunately, the idea spreads fast so there are more than a couple people scooting out today.
I bring it up because I [...]