The only blog written from the NYC Subway system

I think there’s a fundamental truth to subway riding that we can all agree upon:  The trains are cleaner than they were in the 80’s, but in general, the commute has not changed in 30 years.
Well, NY1 took the time to make it official…exclusively.
“The trains are cleaner, there’s no more graffiti on them,” said a [...]

I seem to be walking right into breaking news lately.
This afternoon I was walking across Central Park South towards Columbus Circle. In front of Mickey Mantle’s, there was quite a scene.  Two horses went bizerk and caused a car accident.
By the time I got there, it had already happened, and they were removing one of [...]

 
I was up at Columbia this afternoon, and heading to the train on my way home.  I happened to be closer to the 110th Street station, so I headed in that direction (versus the 116th stop).
Quickly, realized that was a bad idea.  The place was crawling with NYPD and rescue.  From the look of it, [...]

Words of wisdom from the MTA that escaped some dude recently.
AMNY Tracker reports that today’s morning Q train snafu was due to a subway surfer.  No, not some idiot riding inside the train pretending to surf down the middle of the isle.  No, instead it is usually a rider on top of (as in the [...]

From the New York Times:
Michael A. Lombardi, the senior vice president for subways at New York City Transit, will retire after 45 years of working in the subway system, the agency announced yesterday. MORE
Steven Feil, Chief of Operations Service Delivery will fill the void in the mean time. 

Just an interesting film from the first days of the subway system.  This is a train from 14th Street to 42nd.  Kinda cool.

To celebrate the 75th Birthday of the A line, the first line owned by the City, the MTA strung together a train of old pre-WWII train cars, and took them for a spin.
You could have been riding a train like this one pictured on the left (click for full image / NY Times). Yes, [...]

So it seems that the NYPD needs to spend a little more time on the firing range working on aim.   Ok, just kidding.
However, it turns out that at least one of the shots Officer Annmarie Marchiondo took the other night came from the gun of another police officer.  The wound her foot was determined to [...]