The only blog written from the NYC Subway system

I was handed a new (the Second Annual) Rider Report Card this morning as I headed down to the subway.  I can’t believe it has already been a year since I filled out one of these things. I especially enjoy the little opening letter inside the card.  Here’s a few highlights. “We’ve worked diligently over [...]

Turns out it’s not just the homeless guys that pick up the tossed Metrocards to try and to use the leftover values. The Post reports that Georgette DiFini, an F line resident of Brooklyn, regularly picks up discarded Metrocards.  She claims that roughly 40% of all tossed cards have at least some money left on [...]

MTA’s officials gave the press tours of the new South Ferry station that is expected to open next month. Many reporters made comments about how clean it was, as it it were a hospital wing.  The fancy new station cost about $500 million to build directly under the current South Ferry station. What does this [...]

For that price, it had better come with at least two drinks. The latest news is the very real possibility of subway fares going over $100 for monthly cards.  I call bullsh*t there not because of the price necessarily, but what we get. I love the lead from the Daily News: Brace yourself for the [...]

I guess only time will tell.  When there’s back to back days of solid rain, it can cause some big issues on the subway.  For whatever reason, the subway and water just don’t mix. It is kind of ironic that an massive system of underground tunnels build on an island at the mouth of a [...]

You know, this isn’t even one of the more shocking things you’d see in the subway.  It probably wouldn’t even create much of a commotion. However, walk your naked ass into the middle of a super crowded train car, and you’d have some issues.  The last thing any New Yorker would allow is some naked [...]

Or at least discuss strategies.  Yikes. There’s two fairly large, old men that ride the subway every morning.  I see them at least a couple times a month together.  They’re already on the train when I get on, so they must live further uptown. They have really distinct old-man gravely voices, and are quite round [...]

So a fat woman and a gay guy walk into a bar.  (Just kidding) Instead, a skinny gay guy sits down next to a biiiiiiig hunk of woman on the subway.  She’s easily a seat-and-a-halfer.  Her thighs are just spilling over into the seat next to her. She was all the way at the end [...]