Every year, the New York Transit Museum collaborates with the MTA to roll out vintage trains for an old-timey commute in celebration of the holiday magic in NYC. The longstanding tradition, dubbed Holiday Nostalgia Ride...
From 2002-2020, hundreds of New Yorkers had braved the cold in January to take to the filthy subway in nothing but their undies. This year (same as last), the Improv Everywhere initiative has been canceled. Their websit...
Coronavirus is taking over the globe, and the news cycle. With one officially confirmed patient in NYC (and another just outside the city in Westchester), it’s natural to start panicking. But the city is on it. Bo...
In early 2019, the MTA announced that they’d be rolling out new redesigned subway cars with “open gangways,” and the first looks are finally here! It was originally reported that the trains would be hi...
From time to time the MTA has to put subway cars into “retirement” when they get too old for service or more modern designs replace them. And now it’s time for the historic 1969 R-42 cars to take their...
L Train riders who live near Avenue A were greeted this morning with a new entrance to the First Avenue station, that will (hopefully) ease commuter congestion. The new entrance to the 1 Av Station’s 8 Av-bound pl...
At one time or another, most New Yorkers have been out late at night, trying to make their way home via public transportation so they don’t have to shell out for a cab…and the buses and subways are too far a...
The subways are about to get a little kinder. The MTA just launched the ‘Hate Has No Place in Our Transportation System’ campaign today, which is meant to help combat hate crimes occurring on the subway. Courtesy...
This may be a little hard to believe if you’re a daily subway commuter, but the MTA just released its statistics for 2019 service and apparently it was the best year in the past six years for on-time performance....
If you took the 7-train this morning you may have heard a new voice announcing your stops. The Golden Globes winner and Queens native, Awkwafina (or Nora Lum), is the temporary new voice making announcements on the 7 tr...