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The W train returns today, see the MTA’s new service map
When it came to reviving the W train, the MTA surprisingly stuck to their timeline, with restored service from Astoria to lower Manhattan beginning at this morning. The train will now run from 6:30am...
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MAP: Here’s what the NYC subway system looked like in 1939
We often think of the NYC subway as a relatively modern marvel, a system that has expanded and evolved tremendously over 100-plus years, and a shell of what it was when it first debuted in 1904....
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MTA to increase L train service as M train undergoes repairs in 2017
An unlikely hero has emerged to save straphangers from the brunt of yet another MTA closure: the L train. In a statement released this morning by the transit agency, beginning June 2017, another 50...
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Down to the wire, 2nd Avenue Subway requires ‘unprecedented’ work to meet...
There are just seven weeks left for the MTA to wrap works on the 2nd Avenue Subway if they want to meet their December 31st deadline. According to the Times, at yesterday’s MTA board meeting, officials...
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MTA mulls increasing subway fare to $3.00 in 2017
Swiping a MetroCard at a subway turnstile could cost an extra 25 cents in March, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced Wednesday. The MTA finance chairman has suggested to raise on fares...
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In light of fare hikes, need for low-income Metro Cards becomes urgent
Fighters for the Fair Fare initiative to secure half-priced MetroCards for low-income New Yorkers strengthened their resolve Wednesday as the Metropolitan Transit Authority announced plans to increase...
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NYC will have free Wi-Fi in all underground subway stations by year’s end
NYC Subway riders will soon be less able to blame their subway commute for not being able to immediately answer that all-important email or text. Last January 6sqft highlighted Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s plan...
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Governor Cuomo is ‘cautiously optimistic’ about Second Avenue subway opening...
Melissa DeRosa, the governor’s chief of staff, said Friday that Governor Andrew Cuomo was “cautiously optimistic” about a December opening for the long-awaited Second Avenue subway project, according...
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Second Avenue Subway won’t open until all stations are finished says MTA
On Monday, the Governor’s office put out a statement that Cuomo was “cautiously optimistic” that the Second Avenue Subway would open on time by the end of the month. Yesterday, MTA chairman Tom...
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First look at the Second Avenue Subway’s $4.5M public art installation
If a sparkling new line isn’t cause enough to celebrate, once the Second Avenue Subway opens on January 1st, 2017, millions of New Yorkers will also be treated to several stretches of world-class art...
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Second Avenue Subway officially opens to the public January 1, 2017!
Recent weeks have brought conflicting reports of whether or not the Second Avenue Subway would meets its December 31st deadline, but Governor Cuomo has announced that the public will be able to swipe...
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NYC’s first subway line moved passengers just one block
Nearly 141 years ago, something quite momentous happened in New York history: the first subway line was opened to the public. The system was the invention of Alfred Ely Beach and his company Beach...
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Great gifts for transportation buffs and NYC subway nerds
It was a tough year for straphangers—an impending L train closure, subway slashings and bug pranks gone wrong. But there were also bright spots, including the promise of new trains and buses, the...
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Ghost tunnel under Central Park will reopen along with Second Avenue Subway
Image Wiki Commons There are countless relics from the subway’s past hidden beneath NYC, but one of the most intriguing will reveal itself again in just 9 days when the Second Avenue Subway (SAS)...
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Watch 24 hours of NYC subway activity in one hypnotizing map
Who knew watching the movements of the New York City subway could be such a relaxing activity. A new data visualization created by Will Geary shows a day’s worth of subway routes in motion in one...
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NYC’s best and worst subway lines of 2016
Despite the fact that its impending shutdown dominated negative subway headlines this year, the L train is tied for one of the three best-performing lines, along with the 1 and 7. The worst? The A and...
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Nearly 100 years later, the Second Avenue Subway officially opens!
Today history is made, as January 1, 2017 marks the official public opening of the long-awaited Second Avenue Subway. The New York City transit endeavor has been in the works for nearly a century, and...
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Mapping NYC subway stops according to their most popular Instagram hashtags
The Houston Street 1 station is #cronut; the PATH train’s World Trade Center station is #neverforget; and the Cathedral Parkway/110th Street station is #Seinfeld. This is the NYC subway map according...
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MTA backs plan to raise subway and bus fare to $3 come March
At a board meeting over the summer, the MTA began discussions about increasing subway and bus fare to $3 by 2017 “in an effort to raise more than $300 million annually,” as 6sqft reported at the time....
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VIDEO: Watch the MTA clean subway tracks with their new Mobile Vacs
This past May the MTA recorded 50,436 subway delays, 697 of which were caused by track fires that could have been ignited by the 40 tons of trash that are removed from the system every day. To curb...
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