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Maybe next time, take a cab? Jeanie Colberg was on the 4 train with her young daughter on the way to the hospital yesterday when her water broke. Luckily, a good samaritan was there to comfort her and calm her down a bit.  At Union Square, EMS workers were there to handle the rest.  She [...]

The weather is getting warmer, that’s for sure.  Today wasn’t especially warm, but for some ladies the summer clothes are out and they’re not going back till the fall. With that comes the lowcut tops, short shorts, and micro skirts. This is truly one of New York’s greatest treasures, IMHO. Today, there was a young [...]

(coming soon) For the first ever SUBWAY Monthly newsletter, I’m thinking of creating the greatest list of subway riding tips ever.  I’m not sure how I’m going to aggregate it just yet.  Or even how it will be arranged.  Luckily, I have a lot of ideas. For one, I’m going to reach out to as [...]

I’m to lazy to go and look up the temperatures from last May, but I feel like we’re getting off easy this year temperature wise. I have a feeling these relatively mild weeks are going to quickly come back and bite us in the ass. I’m predicting that we get our first sustained heat not [...]

“…and it starts with you go f**k yourself.” On the newer trains (like the 2 train), they’ve added some more public service announcements.  They aren’t especially new, but they seem to be playing them a lot more, and they’re starting to piss SUBWAYblogger off. For the longest time, you only had a couple basic announcements [...]

Introducing SUBWAY Monthly by SUBWAYblogger. We here at SUBWAYblogger have decided to offer a monthly newsletter product just for true subway riders.  There’s really nothing like this out in the market right now.  So instead of bitching about it, we’ve decided to take matters into our own hands. Sign Up Now! SUBWAY Monthly will be [...]

Aaaand we inch ever closer to the $2.50 single ride and the $103 monthly unlimited. The final vote is Wednesday. Gov. Paterson to MTA: Go ahead with Doomsday budget How Will You Cope With Higher Fares? MTA Committee Proposes Big Subway Fare Hike I don’t claim to be that good at math, but eventually the [...]

Sorry we’ve been missing in action the last few weeks.  We’re getting back on track ASAP (pun intended). It’s been an insane few weeks around the office, and it has totally dominated every waking moment.  The thought of writing even more, even via Blackberry on the train, was overwhelming. Things are finally calming down, so [...]