The only blog written from the NYC Subway system

I rode in a new Subway train today.  I tried to look it up in the MTA website, but what do you know, most of the MTA site isn’t working!  Ha!  If that’s not classic, I don’t know what is. 
A word about the new trains: Sweet. 
They’ve got a new suspension system that uses “air-bags,” but [...]

So do they only make coats in black or dark navy these days?
Ok so I am standing on this train in a sea of black/navy. From my vantage point, there is one person not wearing black/navy. Just one.
NYC fashion my ass. Apparently, staphangers didn’t get the memo. It’s just wall to wall people in [...]

Gotta love it when our random blurbs about how extra crowded the trains seem to be are validated by the legit press.  The NY Sun reports that many neighborhoods are seeing huge surges in subway ridership! 
In other words, our random (complete lack of coffee) babble about the crowds this morning wasn’t as crazy and incoherent [...]

Did you know that today is “Blue Monday?” Today is the most depressing day of the year according to a team of British researchers. So hey, it can only get better from here.
On that note, wow is it crowded today. Lots of extra people on board this morning. I wonder if the colleges get back [...]

SUBWAYblogger stumbled across something a little strange. People are selling their old subway tokens on eBay. Is that strange?
They are being sold as collector’s items in some cases. It hasn’t been that long since the MTA stopped using tokens.
Some of the sets are cool though. Apparently there are bigger transit geeks [...]

OK, so this isn’t the subway, but it easily could have been.  There was a pretty funny fight on the PATH train.  The funny part is the guys taping the fight.  This is NSFW if you have speakers.  Turn them down because there is some colorful language. 
Thanks to AMNY Subtracker for tipping us off to [...]

Can you even imagine if this ever happens for real with these new signs?

As Gothamist points out, there would be a riot if this were for real.  However, what if you didn’t know this was a test?  With just a quick glance, you might think that this was real if you weren’t a regular subway [...]

Headphones for your iPod are getting a bit out of control in terms of size and price.
The subway and iPods go hand in hand. So if there’s a new case, headphone, or other accessories on the market, it will only take a few seconds before you start seeing it on the subway.
So looking around, there’s [...]