It has been over a year since buskers, and their music, returned underground, and their slightly fuller tip jars and instrument cases suggest things may be looking up. Source: New York Times
Posts published in “Subways”
As NYC Swipes Out MetroCards, One Artist Honors the Yellow and Blue
By Gotham Rex on November 17, 2022
For more than 20 years, Thomas McKean has turned the New York City fare card into art. His supplies may run out as the city upgrades its payment system. Source: New York Times
In New York, Subway Crime Is an Issue Even as Risk Is Low
By Gotham Rex on November 5, 2022
From M.T.A. workers to buskers to shopkeepers, the people whose livelihood depends on the system offered a complex portrait of the subway as ridership approaches prepandemic normalcy. Source: New York Times
The Woman Who Faced New Yorkers’ Wrath Over the MTA
By Gotham Rex on October 29, 2022
As the authority’s first “chief customer officer,” Ms. Meyer worked to connect the public with the transit system’s overseers. Source: New York Times
MTA Will Reopen Some Subway Bathrooms For First Time In January 2023
By Gotham Rex on October 24, 2022
Of the subway system’s 472 stations, 69 have bathrooms. In January, eight of them will reopen, now that more cleaners have been hired. Source: New York Times
Man Killed by Subway Train After Falling During Fight in Queens Station
By Gotham Rex on October 17, 2022
The death occurred when two men were fighting on the F train platform during rush hour in Jackson Heights, Queens, the police said. Source: New York Times
15-Year-Old Boy Shot Dead While Riding Subway in Far Rockaway
By Gotham Rex on October 14, 2022
Police officials did not name the victim, who was taken from the train by fellow passengers. Emergency workers tried to save him, but he was pronounced dead at a hospital. Source: New York Times
New NYC Congestion Pricing Tolls May Lower Demand For Yellow Cabs
By Gotham Rex on October 11, 2022
The tolling program could push up fares and shrink taxi demand, the M.T.A. says. Cabdrivers are also seeking their own fare hike of up to 23 percent. Source: New York Times
Man Stabbed to Death on a Bronx Subway Platform in Unprovoked Attack
By Gotham Rex on October 7, 2022
The victim has not been identified and no one has been arrested. It was the second murder in the subway in the past week. Source: New York Times
N.Y.C. Subway System to Install Security Cameras in Train Cars
By Gotham Rex on September 20, 2022
Gov. Kathy Hochul said the installations, which grew from a pilot project after a mass shooting in Brooklyn, would allay riders’ anxieties. Source: New York Times
The Little Pump Trains That Could, but Didn’t
By Gotham Rex on September 7, 2022
The M.T.A. didn’t send out its pump trains because the storm didn’t reach New York. Source: New York Times
N.Y.C. Issues Travel Advisory, Warning of Heavy Rainfall
By Gotham Rex on September 6, 2022
Between two and four inches of rain was expected across the region, with the potential for flash flooding through early Tuesday evening, according to the National Weather Service. Source: New York Times
Why Aren’t New York City Subway Stations Air-Conditioned?
By Gotham Rex on August 25, 2022
A few stations have the ability to cool the platforms. What would it take to avoid the subterranean heat wave? Source: New York Times
The M.T.A.’s Money Woes
By Gotham Rex on August 17, 2022
The New York area transportation authority is contending with reduced ridership, debt and inefficiency. Source: New York Times
New York City Braces for an M.T.A. Budget Disaster, Again
By Gotham Rex on August 15, 2022
New Yorkers fear a repeat of past service cuts as the Metropolitan Transportation Authority faces a $2.5 billion budget deficit in 2025. Source: New York Times