The only blog written from the NYC Subway system

Thanks though! Wouldn’t you know it.  Just as the MTBA up north digs into their own issues with computer geeks hacking the CharlieCard, it turns out we have our own homegrown hackers right here in NYC. I had written a post wishing the MIT students would come down here and beat up on the Metrocard [...]

Apparently there is a strange odor at the 53rd and 7th station that has caused it to be evacuated. B, D, and E trains are bypassing the station at this time, and last we heard, passengers are not being allowed to enter the station.  However, the MTA says the V train is running with residual [...]

In other musical news today, have you ever seen this guy?  He’s awesome. He has a synthesiser on his violin or something that makes it sound sort of like an electric guitar.  So it’s like a hard rock hairband with a fiddle. Axl would be so proud. Ok, we promise no more subway music for [...]

Cruising the interwebs for some subway video, I came across this music video for a band called “The Subways.” You know, they’re actually not bad.  Anyway…

I could have sworn I just saw that the Metrocard machines were down again.  As I walked into my station, I pass a whole wall of Metrocard machines.  All of them said “CASH ONLY” across the top. There were a lot of confused looking people too. Did anyone have any problems on the way home [...]

Who knew all we needed was some MIT kids to help us get around any future fare hikes. Apparently, some students at MIT made it a class project to hack the Boston subway system (aka the T).  As a matter of fact, the title of the project is: “The Anatomy of a Subway Hack: Breaking [...]

Further proof that the MTA is an embarrassing bureaucracy. The MTA released the results of a comprehensive study that found the subway is dirty.  Folks, I wish it was a joke.  The MTA’s advocacy group’s 61 page [gasp] report said the stations are dirty aaaaaand many of them are literally falling apart. Read the report [...]

Sort of.  Also, it turns out you can’t blog about it on your Blackberry while you are in the process of screaming at a scrawny bum. Anyway, this morning it was raining pretty hard as we all know.  On my train, there was an open window that obviously had water leak down it and formed [...]