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TWU President Roger Toussaint is back in business, taking on his third three-year-term as President of the Transit Worker’s Union.
And not a bad way to start his new term, coming of the recently settled labor contract dispute.  The dispute was placed under binding arbitration.  So in other words, the final decision of the arbitrator is [...]

4.5 Days to go. Just keep telling yourself that.
SUBWAYblogger didn’t take its own advice this weekend. Somehow, I ended up in midtown, crossing 5th Ave too close to the tree at Rockefeller. As predicted, it was pretty crazy.
I figured, what the heck, it’s after 8pm on a Saturday. Most of the shopping crowd [...]

This weekend should be the worst of the holiday shopping rush. There will be plenty of last minute shoppers out next weekend, but the bulk will be out THIS weekend.
It won’t help things that Al Sharpton and crew will be out protesting the police shootings…this weekend, they take to 5th Ave.
So, for a [...]

BREAKING NEWS:
The MTA and Transit Workers Union have reached a deal. They entered into binding arbitration to settle the dispute over the labor contract that caused last year’s transit strike.
The arbitrator has announced that the contract is almost identical to the contract proposed shortly after the strike. The contract went to vote before [...]

First of all, what is that smell. More importantly WHO is that smell coming from. I know SUBWAYblogger just wrote about the smell in the subway, but this morning’s odor is pretty impressive.
Anyway, guys with ponytails look like idiots. Unless you are in an active rock band, you have no excuse, so go get a [...]

There’s a guy next to me. He’s an older gentleman. Possibly blind because he’s holding the newspaper 3 inches from his face. More importantly though, he is reading Tuesday’s newspaper.
Today is Thursday.
No, it isn’t just an article he pulled out. It is the entire New York Times.
Maybe I’ve mistaken his blindness…maybe he [...]

SUBWAYblogger has been off its game lately in terms of standing strategy. The favorite spot to stand and blog happens to be in the doorway. The best place to stand with hands free is with your back to the door and hip against the seat rail on your left or right.
Don’t get your panties [...]