The only blog written from the NYC Subway system

Mmmm yummy. There are some signs up at my stop that say… Public Notice. Asbestos Abatement. It’s the kind of sign that makes you want to take a nice deep breath of relief. It lists out all of the areas that the asbestos was found. In a nut shell, it’s every where. Sweet. Live from [...]

  …holster. There’s people on the subway that , like me, use their BlackBerry on the train. However, some people act like others are trying to steal secrets from them or something. This one guys keeps picking his head up to see if people are reading over his shoulder. Then he stares down his suspects [...]

Do you know this guy?  He’s the one that runs through the closing subway doors at the last possible second.  You might know him best because he usually knocks people down like bowling pins as he darts through the doors. There’s not much to say other than “what a dick.” I love how he says [...]

Every time I find myself in the Columbus Circle area, it seems that the station is taken over by more construction. Everytime I’m there, it’s like a completely different stop because of all the temporary walls that go up. The first thing the crews seem to do is establish a home base somewhere at the [...]

Nothing starts the week off right like starting it on Tuesday! Unless of course you live in Brooklyn and rely on the 7 train. For those that fit that description, it might well have been a rather uneventful weekend. SUBWAYblogger lives in Manhattan, so the 7 train closure wasn’t that big a deal. However, we [...]

Well, that was a first. I just arrived at the subway station and there was a train already at the platform. Unfortunately, I didn’t make it down the stairs in time to get on. However, the train was in the station for quite a while because of a stuck door. The train motorman got out [...]

On snowy days like today, walking to the subway is a real pain in the ass.  Mostly, it is due the joy that is crossing over intersections.  Most look like this.  The slush in the streets gets up to your knees in some places. The MTA also does a pretty crappy job of clearing the [...]

Yes ladies and gentlemen, the NYC Subway condom has hit the streets. The video here is really funny. Look around midway through for the old man with the cane that get’s handed the condom. He doesn’t know what to do with it so he hands it back!! hahah In midtown today, you might have been [...]