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The Lost Subway Line of the 1939-1940 World’s Fair
one moment please...Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens, NY, United States+ Expand- collapseWorld’s Fair Terminal Station. Photo via Bill Cotter There was, for a short time, a line of the IND...
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It Will Cost $3M to Repair Hudson Yards Train Station, Six Months After Opening
one moment please...Hudson Yards, New York, NY, United States+ Expand- collapseThe Post reported last week that the Hudson Yards 7-train subway station, which opened just this past September after more...
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MTA Takes Steps to Open 7 Train Station at 10th Avenue
Last month, the Port Authority of of New York and New Jersey officially launched a design competition for a new bus terminal, which could cost up to $10 billion and require the use of eminent domain. A...
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This Map Tells You How Frequently NYC Subways Actually Run
This New York City Transit Frequency map, from Ft. Collins, Colorado-based public transit enthusiast and urban adventurer Tyler A. Green, is a mapped visualization of how frequently the city’s subways...
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Did You Know the MTA Uses Pantone Colors to Distinguish Train Lines?
It’s likely that every subway rider can name the colors that mark each train line — blue for the A, C, E, red for the 1, 2, 3. But did you know that these aren’t just arbitrary hues pulled from some...
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POLL: Will You Miss the MetroCard Swipe?
The ye-olde MetroCard swipe has made national headlines in recent weeks, thanks to Hilary Clinton’s inability to get through the turnstile and Bernie Sanders’ belief that we’re still in the dark ages...
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Annual Subway Ridership Hits 1.7 Billion, Highest Since 1948
The MTA has released its 2015 figures, which show the highest weekday subway ridership since 1948, reports the Daily News. Not only does this account for daily riders, which hit 5.7 million, but annual...
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How Long Should You Wait For the Subway Before Giving Up?
To wait or not to wait, that is the question that engineer Erik Bernhardsson answered in his recent analysis of the MTA’s real-time API. In his post titled NY Subway Math he determined that if you’re...
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VIDEO: A Visit to the ‘Creepy’ Depths of the ‘90s Subway Finds Some Things...
Here’s a video that drops a subway token on the dark ages of 1990, when the city’s underground transit system may have been a little “creepy,” but buses still took forever. While our ideas of what’s...
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L Train Shutdown: MTA Will Decide in Three Months Which Way to Make Riders...
The MTA announced at a town hall meeting Thursday night that they would “decide in the next three months at most” on the final details for the planned Canarsie Tunnel work to repair damage caused by...
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Why Do Subway Conductors Always Point After Pulling Into a Station?
If you’ve ever been able to tear your eyes away from your targeted entry point when the subway doors are about to open, you might’ve noticed that every time a train pulls into the station, the...
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Map Mashup: The NYC Subway System Gets Re-Stylized as The London Tube
one moment please...New York City, NY, United States+ Expand- collapsePretty much everyone can appreciate a good map, and many of us are downright obsessed. Then there’s Cameron Booth, who has devoted...
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Governor Cuomo Finally Approves MTA’s $27B Capital Plan
Governor Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio, notorious for their icy relationship, have been squabbling for well over a year about the MTA’s $27 billion, five-year capital plan. Last October, they reached an...
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MTA Flaunts Future Subway Map With Second Avenue Line
Perhaps in an attempt to distract disgruntled riders from looming shutdowns and never-ending delays, the MTA has released a new subway map that features stations along phase one of the Second Avenue...
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The NYC Subway Accounts for 100-Percent of the Nation’s Transit Growth, Says...
Although the NYC subway system may be hemorrhaging money, unable to turn a profit despite annual fare increases, expanded services and a slew of other measures taken to just to balance the books, there...
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The MTA Joins Forces With Arup Engineers to Build Quieter Subway Stations
Artist’s impression of one of the Second Avenue subway’s 16 new stations While the New York City subway system has improved by leaps and bounds since the days of squealing graffiti-covered,...
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Poll: Will Phase One of the Second Avenue Subway Open on Time?
New Yorkers have learned to take deadlines and budgets from the MTA with a grain of salt, and the Second Avenue Subway may be the worst offender since it was first proposed all the way back in the...
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Interactive Map Shows Massive ‘Subway Deserts’ in Underserved ‘Hoods
Last summer, 6sqft shared an interactive map from transit data junkie Chris Whong that laid out all NYC land ares more than 500 meters from one of the city’s 470 subway stations. He’s now revised his...
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Buy Old Subway Seats, Signs, Tokens and More From the MTA
We know that thing where they were dumping old subway cars into the ocean for fish to live in was pretty cool, but there are only so many the briny deep can handle, and as cars get upgraded, items from...
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New High-Tech Subway Station and Car Designs Unveiled by Governor Cuomo
Straphangers rejoice! As unveiled by Governor Cuomo at the NYC Transit Museum in Brooklyn today, the MTA has announced plans to build 1,025 new subway cars, and to modernize 31 of the city’s more than...
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