humansofnewyork: I was on the G-Train heading north through Brooklyn when the train abruptly stopped just before the Hoyt-Schermerhorn station. The conductor shut down the power of the train, and held us there for about 20 minutes. When we finally pulled into the station, a breathless woman entered my car. “A woman had a seizure and fell on the tracks!” she said, excitedly. “And a train was coming into the station! Luckily the driver noticed and slammed on the brakes.” She pulled out her phone to show just how close the train had come to hitting the woman.  Supposedly, after the last few incidents, the MTA has been urging its conductors to be hyperaware when entering stations. Looks like a life was saved today by one conductor who took the warning to heart. I’m always a little terrified that my knees are going to betray me at the wrong moment and I’m going to tumble onto the subway tracks or down a flight of stairs. Scary stuff. Stay away from the platform edge!
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I was on the G-Train heading north through Brooklyn when the train abruptly stopped just before the Hoyt-Schermerhorn station. The conductor shut down the power of the train, and held us there for about 20 minutes. When we finally pulled into the station, a breathless woman entered my car. “A woman had a seizure and fell on the tracks!” she said, excitedly. “And a train was coming into the station! Luckily the driver noticed and slammed on the brakes.” She pulled out her phone to show just how close the train had come to hitting the woman. 

Supposedly, after the last few incidents, the MTA has been urging its conductors to be hyperaware when entering stations. Looks like a life was saved today by one conductor who took the warning to heart.

I’m always a little terrified that my knees are going to betray me at the wrong moment and I’m going to tumble onto the subway tracks or down a flight of stairs. Scary stuff. Stay away from the platform edge!

The defendant is accused of committing what is every subway commuter’s nightmare. Being suddenly and senselessly pushed into the path of an oncoming train.
Richard Brown, district attorney for borough of Queens • Speaking in an interview about Erika Menendez, the Bronx woman who has been charged with a hate crime for allegedly pushing 46-year-old Sunando Sen onto the subway tracks as a train approached. Brown characterized Menendez’s remarks to police, “in sum and substance,” as: “I pushed a Muslim off the train tracks because I hate Hindus and Muslims ever since 2001 when they put down the twin towers I’ve been beating them up.” Officials claim Menenedez conflated the Muslim and Hindu faiths in her statement to the police — Sen himself was an Indian-born Hindu. source  (via shortformblog)

In Queens today, a woman pushed a man in front of an oncoming subway car. She ran away. He, horrifically, didn't have a chance.

shortformblog:

“We haven’t determined whether it was random or if there was some connection yet,” [chief police spokesman Paul J.] Browne said, “but there was nothing from what the witnesses could see to indicate that they knew each other and he did not, according to the witnesses, appear to realize that she was approaching.”

The woman, whom the police described as Hispanic, in her early 20s and heavyset, fled on Queens Boulevard and was being sought by all police officers in the area.

She was wearing a blue, white and gray ski jacket, the police said, and gray Nike sneakers. Outside the elevated station on Thursday night, multiple police vehicles gathered, and local residents braved frigid conditions to huddle on corners and discuss the act of violence in their midst.

We didn’t need a copycat incident. We already had one of these this month. One was enough.

This is terrifying. My dad always told me not to stand near the edge just in case some crazy person decides to shove you onto the tracks. I always told him that was ridiculous. Welp …

shortformblog: wnyc: The subway comes back, in GIF.  datanews: Since Sandy left town, we’ve been downloading MTA subway-recovery maps to feed WNYC’s Changing Trains map. Our Steve Melendez put them together in a time-lapse GIF. Click through to the full-size image. Great graphic — one that shows the speed of the recovery.  This is great but it’s still not done! As of this morning, no L service to Brooklyn and the A in the vicinity of the Rockaways is still out of commission. 
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wnyc:

The subway comes back, in GIF. 

datanews:

Since Sandy left town, we’ve been downloading MTA subway-recovery maps to feed WNYC’s Changing Trains map. Our Steve Melendez put them together in a time-lapse GIF. Click through to the full-size image.

Great graphic — one that shows the speed of the recovery. 

This is great but it’s still not done! As of this morning, no L service to Brooklyn and the A in the vicinity of the Rockaways is still out of commission. 

Source: datanews

googledocsandcoffeeshops:

gawkercom:

In lieu of updating their actual website, MTA has released this YouTube video of an MTA employee wading through calf-deep water at the South Ferry and Whitehall Street station in downtown Manhattan. This station, one of the city’s more beautiful after a $530 million makeover, now looks like a dark and watery version of every other NYC subway station.

Half a billion dollars worth of work destroyed in less than a day.

Source: gawkercom

shortformblog: gawkercom: The Subway Is Back (Sorta) As of tomorrow, mass rail transit is kinda returning to New York City! The upshot, basically, is: You can get from the Bronx to Upper Manhattan, and Upper Manhattan to the Bronx. You can get from Queens to Upper Manhattan, and Upper Manhattan to Queens.  You can kinda get around Queens and the Bronx You can get east to west in north and central Brooklyn, and  from central Brooklyn to parts of South Brooklyn, and vice versa.  If you want to go between Brooklyn and Manhattan you can take one of three shuttle busses, running from, respectively, Atlantic Center, Jay Street and Hewes St. and all going to 57th and Lexington Ave. Here is a map: Read More The slow crawl back to normalcy continues. Good luck, New Yorkers. Have you seen the subway service map? Lower Manhattan does not exist because a lot of the stations look like the picture above.
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gawkercom:

The Subway Is Back (Sorta)

As of tomorrow, mass rail transit is kinda returning to New York City!

The upshot, basically, is:

  • You can get from the Bronx to Upper Manhattan, and Upper Manhattan to the Bronx.
  • You can get from Queens to Upper Manhattan, and Upper Manhattan to Queens. 
  • You can kinda get around Queens and the Bronx
  • You can get east to west in north and central Brooklyn, and 
  • from central Brooklyn to parts of South Brooklyn, and vice versa. 
  • If you want to go between Brooklyn and Manhattan you can take one of three shuttle busses, running from, respectively, Atlantic Center, Jay Street and Hewes St. and all going to 57th and Lexington Ave.

Here is a map:

Read More

The slow crawl back to normalcy continues. Good luck, New Yorkers.

Have you seen the subway service map? Lower Manhattan does not exist because a lot of the stations look like the picture above.

Source: gawkercom

comicallyvariant:

israelfacts:

‘Savage’ NY subway ads get a make-over — revealing their true character

A friend just sent us these photos of two of the Islamophobic ads that were put up earlier today by Pam Geller’s organization in ten New York subway stations. They got a makeover; and their true character has been revealed.

Mondoweiss

See also: #MySubwayAd Twitter Campaign

where can i buy those stickers

Just so you know, the MTA was totally against these posters going up, so Geller’s people sued and the judge said the ads couldn’t be blocked. Well, now they’ve been improved.

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Source: israelfacts

comicallyvariant:

brain-food:

City Hall – The Ghost Subway Station of New York

It was supposed to be the showpiece of New York City’s new subway system. Stained glass windows, skylights and brass chandeliers adorned its curved walls and arched ceilings. According to Daily Mail, City Hall station was unexpectedly closed to the public a mere 41 years after opening its doors in 1904. In photographs by John-Paul Palescandolo and Eric Kazmirek.

It was once the southern terminus of the Interborough Rapid Transit (IRT), which ran from City Hall all the way north to 145th Street along Broadway. The station features stained glass windows, skylights and brass chandeliers, which adorn its curved walls and arched ceilings.

Now passengers can stay on the 6 train and watch the train make its turnaround, seeing the interior of the beautiful station for themselves. The pride and joy of the underground soon gathered dust and became long forgotten, a mere turning point for the 6 train which runs from Pelham Bay Park to Brooklyn Bridge. Its curved tracks were deemed unsafe for the new, longer trains, and, as it was less busy than nearby Brooklyn Bridge station, authorities decided to shut it down. Commuters won’t be allowed to get off the train but will able to see the station’s resemblance to the famed Grand Central Station. 

City Hall was designed by Valencian architect Rafael Guastavino and is unique among the original IRT stations.

oh man i want to go to this

What? I have to do this!

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