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POLL: Are You Happy With Governor Cuomo’s Planned Subway Changes?
On Monday, as 6sqft reported, Governor Cuomo unveiled the MTA’s “plans to build 1,025 new subway cars, and to modernize 31 of the city’s more than 400 stations.” Most of the new fleet will be of the...
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MTA Announces Details on L Train Shutdown To Begin in 2019
The MTA plans to announce today that the long-dreaded L train shutdown for repairs needed on the Canarsie tunnel that runs beneath the East River will commence in 2019 and take the line out of service...
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MTA Likely to Implement Fare Hike to $3 by 2017
Start saving your quarters; the MTA all but definitively announced at its board meeting yesterday that it will raise subway and bus fares by 2017 in an effort to raise more than $300 million annually....
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New Interactive Subway Game Lets You Build the Transit System of Your Dreams
A new interactive New York City subway planning game created by electrical engineer Jason Wright gives you a chance to try your hand at building the subway system of your dreams. Though based on a...
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Mapping Subways, Buses, and Free Transfers in One Place
One MetroCard. One map. Done.This new set of maps from map obsessive Anthony Denaro shows all the ways we can use the New York City transit system’s unlimited MetroCard and transfers in one convenient,...
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VIDEO: The MTA Tells All About Dumping Its Subway Cars in the Atlantic Ocean
6sqft first learned about the MTA’s interesting history of dumping old subway cars into the Atlantic Ocean through Stephen Mallon’s insane photo series. The initiative began in late 2000 as a way to...
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Video: Take a Gritty Summertime Subway Ride to Coney Island–in 1987
one moment please...Coney Island, NY, United States+ Expand- collapseFrom the archives of ’80s NYC nightlife videographer Nelson Sullivan comes this summertime classic video. Young Village Voice writer...
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This 1927 city subway map shows early transit plans
If you’re navigating the NYC subway and wishing you could start from scratch, these map outlines from 1927 might prove interesting. Found by hyperreal cartography, the maps, from the state’s Transit...
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Subway Reads offers free e-books based on the length of your commute
It can be a bit frustrating to start getting into a book on your commute when you just as soon have to put it down, which is part of the idea behind a new initiative called Subway Reads, a web platform...
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Video: The first of 300 new R179 subway cars has (finally) arrived at the...
The future has arrived, and it’s delayed, of course. The first of the city’s shiny new subway cars was delivered to the MTA yard at 207th street in Inwood last night. The new R179 cars are being made...
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Uniqlo’s NYC subway-inspired t-shirt collection hits stores
The New York City subway map is an icon of our modern urban culture, and it was only a matter of time before the popular graphics made their way on to a t-shirt in some trendy way. Uniqlo just released...
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MTA kicks off an intensive two-week subway cleanup
The rats won’t like this. The MTA’s Operation Track Sweep to spiffy up New York’s subways commenced Monday and will continue for two weeks. More than 500 MTA workers are part of the intensive...
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W train service starts up again November 7th
NY1 has learned that the W train will make its triumphant return on Monday, November 7th. The line was taken out of service in 2010, along with the V train, due to MTA budget cuts, but the idea to...
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NYC Transit paid $431M in settlements to people injured by trains or buses in...
We’re frequently reminded of the MTA’s efforts to tighten security and keep us safe from terrorists; now the Daily News reports that errors in safety procedures have led to an alarming number of...
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Second Avenue Subway may miss December opening date
After 100 years of chatter surrounding a Second Avenue Subway, it’s no surprise that the MTA can’t seem to stop flip-flopping on whether or not the line will meet its December opening date. In April of...
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VIDEO: MTA runs first test trains on Second Avenue Subway line!
While it’s still unclear whether or not the Second Avenue Subway will meet its December opening date, it does look like the rails themselves are just about ready to take on riders. Over the weekend,...
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‘City of Women’ turns the subway map into an homage to the city’s greatest...
Modern cities are filled with signs that mark history, and that history often bears men’s names. In New York City, for example, we have Astor Place, Washington Square, Lincoln Center, Columbus Circle,...
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Second Avenue Subway will open in December without delay, officials say
MTA Chairman Thomas Prendergast is hoping to squash rumors that the Second Avenue Subway (SAS) will miss its December opening date. As Prendergast told the Times on Friday, “[we want to show riders] we...
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MTA puts up flyers touting the W train’s November 7th return
6sqft revealed last month that the W train would be making its triumphant return on Monday, November 7th, restoring service from Astoria to Lower Manhattan. Now that the date is only a couple weeks...
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Independent engineer says two Second Avenue Subway stations are still far...
Despite MTA Chairman Tom Prendergast’s seemingly unwavering optimism that the Second Avenue Subway will open on time, it’s still not clear if the line’s stations will be ready for their December ribbon...
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