OK, so this isn’t the subway, but it easily could have been. There was a pretty funny fight on the PATH train. The funny part is the guys taping the fight. This is NSFW if you have speakers. Turn them down because there is some colorful language.
Thanks to AMNY Subtracker for tipping us off to this.
Can you even imagine if this ever happens for real with these new signs?
As Gothamist points out, there would be a riot if this were for real. However, what if you didn’t know this was a test? With just a quick glance, you might think that this was real if you weren’t a regular subway rider.
Headphones for your iPod are getting a bit out of control in terms of size and price.
The subway and iPods go hand in hand. So if there’s a new case, headphone, or other accessories on the market, it will only take a few seconds before you start seeing it on the subway.
So looking around, there’s a whole variety of headphones in use. There’s the standard white earbud that come with every new device. (Oh by the way, the new stock iPod earbuds are really shitty. They are actually lower quality than the previous generation.). Then there’s the upgrades.
Have you been to the Apple store lately? They are selling earbud style headphones for $150.00!! That’s insane. Oh wait…these are insane. $499.00 for earbud headphones? Get the f**k outta here! Sure, they are sound isolating, but 500 bucks?
Folks, in that size headphone, there’s nothing that makes them worth more than $50 tops. The sound quality is just about the same because the device that actually produces the sound is the same diameter. They might be better quality parts, but you are not going to notice a major improvement in sound quality.
If you want better sound, you need to go for the over ear type that have a larger surface are.
What’s always strange to me is when people wear huge, studio size headphones on the subway. If your cans are bigger than your iPod, aren’t you defeating the purpose of portability?
Live from the subway, back to you in studio…
Is that snow? No. Oh wait…yes it is. Where’d it go?
If you were saying that to yourself today, you weren’t alone. On my way to the subway, people were all kinds of confused. Some had umbrellas but it wasn’t really raining.
Looks like it might be slowing service a bit. The first bit of snow can make the weather exposed tracks really slick. So it seems like a lot of the trains aren’t running full speed tonight.
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“He’ll use his nose.”
That’s the slogan from the MTA Police in their latest See something, Say something campaign. It’s actually not even a new campaign.
Anyway, the dog on the poster ad bothers be. He just sits and stares at you while you ride. The dog is a police dog who appears to be working his “beat” in the subway.
The whole “see something” campaign is a good concept, but is it really working? A terrorist’s goal is to make sure no one sees anything before the big boom. So what’s the point?
The next terrorist is just going to look like a guy in a business suit or a woman a grocery bag. We see that everywhere, so should we say something?
Just a thought. A little less cash could be spent on dog posters.
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It’s funny how in the warmer months, New York City is one of the most fashionable places on the planet. Everyone is dressed to impress at all times.
In the winter, it we look like we just got off the short bus. I’m looking around at everyone on this train, and we (myself included) look terrible.
Everyone has on 8 layers, scarfs wrapped around our heads, bright colored mittens that don’t match anything. Hats with ear flaps?!?! Yeah, it’s pretty bad.
The complete opposite in the summer. When it is warm, its nothing but beautiful people as far as the eye can see. Now? Yikes.
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Officials apparently see deaths on the subway as standard operating procedures. amNY reports that on average in 2006, two people died a month.
In the eyes of the Transit Authority, that’s a pretty low number of people considering the millions of people that ride the subway everyday. So hey, two less straphangers a month is just the cost of doing business I guess.
Is that a little sick?
Of the deaths last year, 23 were categorized as “natural causes.” What the hell is a “natural” subway death? Isn’t dieing in your sleep a natural death? Then again, I guess that really is what happened to Eugene Reilly last year. As you may recall, Reilly had a heart attack and died on the subway, only no one noticed! He rode the subway for hours before anyone noticed that he was dead.
There were:
5 Accidents
5 Suicides
2 Murders
3 Unknowns
In case you were wondering, an “Unknown” is a case where investigators were unable to determine if the death was a murder, suicide, or accident.
Also interesting to note that the Transit Authority doesn’t keep track of this stuff. It must be the old “if we don’t keep track of it, we won’t have to report it” kind of mentality.
When was the last time you actually paid attention to the ads posted all over the subway? When was the last time you made a purchase choice based on one of these ads?
If you said rarely and never, then you are just like many other subway riders. The fact is, transit advertising is expensive and does not yeild much direct response.
SUBWAYblogger must admit that the Bodies Exhibit signs did make us go check it out this summer. Otherwise, we generally ignore them.
Anyway, a lot of the ads are pretty funny…not in an intentional way. Seriously, who looks at a poster on the subway and says THAT is the college I want to attend. Sorry Interboro.
The SubChat signs crack us up too. Honestly, just give up the space SubChat and make the MTA a few extra bucks.
Right now, there’s a Save Darfur campaign out. It’s hella depressing. Kinda a downer for the ride home, but I guess there’s no upside to genocide.
Then there’s this School of Visual Arts ad. Guess what? The ad looks like crap! Who designed this thing? Yeah, let’s make an ad for art school that has no trace of artistic quality. Nice.
Take a look around once in a while. You’d be shocked at what you see.
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Ouch…is that headline too harsh? Anyway…
Apparently, it is not possible to levatate between train cars as the MTA warning sticker pictured here illustrates.
An old homeless Veteran, Jose Montanez, died on the 6 train down at City Hall. Apparently, he had stayed on the train after leaving the last stop at the end of the line. The Sun reports that the guy was standing between train cars peeing when the train made a sharp turn.
When the trains turn or come to stop, the cars get much closer together. It is feared that he got stuck between the trains, and then fell on the tracks to his death.
So MTA, can we open up a few more bathrooms for these guys? You know they are just going to pee everywhere anyway, so can we at least give them some mildly maintained bathrooms to use in the mean time?
SUBWAYblogger read in the New York Times this weekend that many employers don’t recognize Martin Luther King Jr. day as a company holiday. So few in fact that the city transit system runs on a normal schedule.
Yesterday, both commutes looked just like normal days. You wouldn’t have known at all that yesterday was a federal holiday.
What’s sad is that there’s a more noticable drop in ridership on Jewish holidays than MLK Day! Not that the Jewish holidays are any less significant, but they aren’t recognized federal holidays.
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