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The Daily News reports that the MTA’s budgets for next year hold fares at their current levels!  It was feared that the fare hike was going to happen within 8 months or so, but not anymore. The MTA is going to make its final vote hopefully before Christmas, so that would be a nice little [...]

It seems to me that the bums in the system are a little antsy lately. They seem to be causing more trouble than usual. Most of the homeless guys is see regularly are pretty harmless. However, there are a couple that have been going nuts lately. One guy I saw this morning was all messed [...]

Rumor has it that they are experiencing generator problems at Bryant park for the tree lighting. Some of the production, lighting, and sound gear may not have enough juice! It may even impact the tree lights too. Anyway, that’s our segue into a transit alert for that part of town. If you ride the 5th [...]

How young is too young to be riding on the subway alone? Am I the only one who is astounded by some of the kids you see on the subway alone? I mean the summer is one thing, but it is dark now by 5pm. There’s 12 year olds on riding the subway alone when [...]

Part of the holiday cheer in NYC comes from the many nightly holiday events. Moments ago, the tree was lit in Lincoln Center. SUBWAYblogger hoofed it over to check it out. The spread begins all the way down at Columbus Circle with many of the Time Warner Center’s business giving away stuff on the streets. [...]

(There was a bit of an email glitch this morning that held up the morning posting.  Sorry for the delay, we’ve fixed the issue!) Well, the end of Thanksgiving weekend marks the start of Christmas in New York City. Sure, most stores have had the decorations up since…ohh…4th of July or so. But now we [...]

I love when packs of little latino girls think that I can’t understand them when they speak spanish. Well, guess what, I can. I especially love when they cop an attitude in spanish. I let them rant on and on about how dare I stand close to them in a crowed train. They spew on [...]

Many predict that today will be almost as bad as Wednesday in terms of commuter traffic. People are leaving the city for Thanksgiving today in an effort to avoid the insanity of tomorrow. Unforunately, the idea spreads fast so there are more than a couple people scooting out today. I bring it up because I [...]