In an illuminating interview with the New York Daily News, Bernie Sanders demonstrated he’s completely out of touch with how ordinary, everyday working-class people board the subway. But his theories about how you might do so are delightful!
In a truly shocking development, a study by the advocacy group Police Reform Organizing Project (PROP) found that 92 percent of arrests for fare-hopping were of people of color in 2015.
New York police are on the look out for a man who reportedly masturbated at a woman for more than 30 minutes on a Manhattan-bound 2 train on Sunday afternoon. His identifying features are a khaki jacket, a white t-shirt, and—less obviously—a tattoo reading “TEAM USA” stamped in bold letters on his forehead. What a…
On Saturday evening just before 6 p.m., according to the NYPD, a 34-year-old woman was minding her own business in the Brooklyn Bridge/City Hall subway station when a man came up to her and tried to talk. When she ignored him, he spat at her; when she laughed at him after that, he “allegedly took out a sharp…
It’s not all in your head. You aren’t going crazy. Each day, as you stand there desperately clinging to a greasy pole, just trying to get to work, and you encounter yet another delay, you can tell yourself that it really is happening. The New York City subway is getting worse. The numbers prove it.
If there's one thing that's immensely tough to do on a subway platform, it's be anywhere near happy. This child inspiring other people to join her in dancing to stompy bluegrass music can only mean one thing: she is the Chosen One.
You can make all the jokes you want about nerds who overly fixate on their fandom of choice, but every once in awhile, the fans pull out an epic win that none of us can ignore.
The subways: So hot right now. For starters, were you aware that your train could, this very minute, be morphing into a hub for romance? Train Spottings, a New York matchmaking service focused on time spent in a fetid metal box, is currently hiring "subway cupids."
If you live in New York (or if you've visited enough that you totally know your way around), you've likely noticed that at every subway stop, conductors point at a black and white striped strip. This is something they're required to do in order to ensure that the train stopped in the right place, and I'm sure it gets…
If you're in the market to become a sobbing mess tonight, do we have the thing for you! A story about a couple who finds a one-day old baby at the A/C/E subway exit on Eighth Avenue, and proceeds to adopt him at the urging of some magical, soothsayer judge.
Residents of Manhattan's East side have to constantly deal with the construction that is slowly but surely (fingers crossed) creating the Second Avenue subway line. But a local construction worker from Queens is, as he put it, "trying to give back a little bit." His name is Gary Russo, and he spends his entire lunch…
Bad news for those hoping to catch a glimpse of Kate and William on their wedding day: London subway drivers are threatening to strike due to a dispute over holiday pay, so plan to take your horse-drawn pumpkin carriage instead.
Yesterday, I was Not Sure If Someone Was Masturbating Against Me In A Crowded Subway.
Former Miss Subways - young women whose pictures were featured in New York subway cars from 1941-1977 - gathered for a reunion yesterday. They declared the current MTA "a mess." [Gothamist, NYP]
A mobile program created by a Japanese video-game developer that allows women to ward off gropers has just become the seventh-most downloaded cellphone application. By pressing on an "anger icon" on the cellphone screen, women can flash the following messages at guys getting a little too close for comfort around:…
