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One of the more frequent emails SUBWAYblogger receives has to do with the plethora of subway related iPhone apps. I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but there are more iPhones out on the subway than ever.  All of a sudden, everywhere you look, someone is rocking out on one.  They’re either listening to music, watching [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Subway (and bus) ridership in 2008 hit an all time high according to a report released by the MTA. There were 2.37 billion subway and bus rides.  That’s billion with a B.  Billion.  Can you even fathom that number?  It blows my mind. That big number represents a 3.1% increase. Of that, there were 1.62 [...]

Around 7:30am, a report of a person struck by a train went out across police radios. The incident occurred around 116th Street & Broadway on the Uptown 1 line.  The thing we find odd is the report that the person was dead on arrival between 116th and 125th.  That makes it sound like the person [...]

Dustin Dibble, 25, of Brooklyn fell onto the subway tracks back in April of 2006.  A train came and ran over his leg.  Unfortunately, the leg had to be amputated at the calf. Dibble was drunk at the time and reportedly had a BAC of .18. The courts just awarded him $2.3 million! They found [...]