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Fake MTA tweets rile, amuse
As Twitter increasingly becomes the playground for snarky commentary, fake media personas are emerging. One new account is @FakeMTA, joining other fake personalities including @FakeAPSytlebook and @BalloonedBoy. Transit officials are not impressed. It’s not surprising considering the mocking tone of the tweets. A few recent tweets include: “Today in Transit History: 1898-Subway adopts F.R. Sneed’s newly patented [...]
Continue reading...Council grills NYPD, MTA on sexual harassment on subways
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Council member Darlene Mealy has been groped on the subway. She has been touched and rubbed against. “I am still traumatized by it,” said the Brooklyn Democrat, chair of the Women’s Issues Committee, about her trips across town in the early 1990s. “You have to think about what women go through everyday. It should be better than [...]
Continue reading...Transit museum is a ride down memory lane
Friday, November 20, 2009
By Ruth Schneider The museum store, tucked in the back of the Metro-North terminal at Grand Central, attracts its fair share of people who revel in mass transit nostalgia. But it also attracts little boys who pore over bins of track pieces, trying to construct the tracks of their dreams. And tourists who enjoy the novelty of the city’s transportation infrastructure.
Continue reading...Awards drive bus service to increase speed, reliability
Friday, November 6, 2009
If today’s Pokey, Trekkie and Schleppie Awards ceremony is any indication, rapid transit is a misnomer in the world of New York City buses. The awards, given annually by the NYPIRG Straphangers Campaign, honor the slowest bus, the most unreliable bus and the bus with the longest scheduled running time in New York City. This year’s [...]
Continue reading...A passion for the subway translates into popular transit blog
Sunday, November 1, 2009
By Ruth Schneider As a 4-year-old New Yorker, Benjamin Kabak stood mesmerized at the front of the No. 2 train, his nose pressed to the window. His father stood at his side. The underground lights in the tunnel — green, blue and yellow — blurred as the train lapped the miles, speeding from one stop to the next. It was the beginning of Kabak’s lifetime passion for the subway.
Continue reading...DA’s office, Verizon team up for victims of abuse
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Domestic violence hits close to home for Kings County District Attorney Charles Hynes. He grew up with an alcoholic father who frequently used Hynes’ mother as a punching bag. “I will never forget the first time I saw my father beat up my mother,” Hynes said. “I was just 5.” This past made Hynes particularly proud to [...]
Continue reading...Morning train derails: None injured, commute slowed
Monday, October 19, 2009
A Brooklyn-bound No. 2 train derailed Monday morning at the Park Place station. New York City Transit officials said no one was injured and that all commuters were safely evacuated. The derailment, still under investigation by New York City Transit, halted both No. 2 and 3 trains in both directions. Service still was halted on both [...]
Continue reading...Big Wheels on the fast track
Monday, October 12, 2009
Some people are very serious about alternative transportation. Others are not. Jeff Grandberg is one of the latter. He’s in it for the fun. And the adrenaline rush. Grandberg and more than 200 others gathered in Central Park on Saturday afternoon whooped and hollered riding Big Wheels, tricycles, skateboards or homemade contraptions down some of the steepest [...]
Continue reading...Cell phone safety spurs writer’s paranoia
Saturday, October 3, 2009
I’m going die. From brain cancer. I’m sure of it. I spent the better part of today working on a story about cell phone radiation and the potential risk of it causing brain cancer. The whole story has spawned an incessant paranoia in my mind. Here’s the scene: I’m sitting at the computer. I have a landline within reach, [...]
Continue reading...Transit workers take fight to the streets
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Transit Workers Union members are seething mad. Mad at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Mad at Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Mad about not having their contracts honored. And they are threatening to shut down the city. “We’re gonna bring hell to this town,” said Kenny Onunkwo, the former vice chairman of the motorman division, which oversees train operators.
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Wednesday, December 2, 2009
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