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New York City’s subway system has a water problem- a 13 million gallon one
Workers pumping seawater out of the L-train tunnel after Hurricane Sandy in 2012, photo courtesy of the MTA on Flickr The subway’s crippling, century-old infrastructure is not the only reason behind...
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A 10-minute walk to the subway could save you 10 percent on rent
Photo via Jeffrey Zeldman’s Flickr While amenities like on-site laundry and air conditioning are big selling points in New York City rentals, the building’s proximity to the subway remains one of the...
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Subway stations on the Upper West Side and Astoria to temporarily close this...
N train at 30th Ave Station via Wikimedia Thousands of straphangers on the Upper West Side and Astoria will have to rethink their daily commutes come spring, as the Metropolitan Transportation...
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MTA approves more than $200M in cosmetic improvements for eight subway stations
Two stations at 34th Street will be renovated; photo via dog97209 on Flickr The board of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority approved on Thursday a $213 million plan to rehabilitate eight subway...
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The NYC subway saw 30 million fewer trips last year
Photo via Colin Mutchler/Flickr For the second straight year, subway ridership has fallen, reports Time Out New York. Data presented in an MTA Transit Committee meeting this week shows a drop of nearly...
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7 train extension to NJ is among long-term solutions being studied to address...
Photo via Wiki Commons How long does it take to get to New Jersey by subway? The answer might be “about 22 years.” That’s if the round of attention focused on extending the New York City subway system...
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The end of the MetroCard could mean fare capping, better bus boarding, and...
Image via Cubic Transportation Systems The MTA’s new cardless fare system will completely phase out the MetroCard by 2023, and transit advocates from the TransitCenter and the Tri-State Transportation...
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The Real MTA map shows only the subway lines that are currently functioning
Screenshot from realmta.info at approximately 3pm on Wednesday, March 7th (during the impending nor’easter) There’s been a lot of recent attention about the deterioration of the New York City subway,...
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MTA $1M Genius Transit Challenge winners suggest faster trains and robot...
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has announced the winners of the agency’s MTA Genius Transit Challenge; eight winners will split a $1 million prize for their ideas and concepts on how...
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MTA hit with federal lawsuit over lack of wheelchair accessibility
Elevator at the Lincoln Center subway station, via Wiki Commons The MTA has found itself on the wrong end of a lawsuit by the feds for failing to make its subway stations wheelchair-accessible. On...
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MTA considers raising subway speed limits to reduce delays
Image: Wikipedia. New Yorkers love to complain about the slowness of the subway, but what sometimes seems like a snail’s pace is as likely due to speed limits imposed to keep the system safe as it is...
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Despite declining service, MTA will most likely raise fares in 2019
Image via Ged Carroll’s Flickr Without another option to bring in revenue to the cash-strapped Metropolitan Transportation Authority, straphangers will most likely have to pay higher fares next year....
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De Blasio agrees to fund half of the MTA’s $836M emergency subway rescue plan
Image © 6sqft After months of refusal, Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Saturday the city will pay for half of the emergency rescue plan for the subway, which was announced by the Metropolitan...
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Travel uptown on a WWI-era subway to mark the 100th anniversary of Woodlawn...
Via NY Transit Museum Before the Woodlawn station opened a century ago, the surrounding area of Norwood in the Bronx was mostly rural with lots of farmland. While residential development began with...
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Amtrak will reroute some trains from Penn Station to Grand Central this summer
Grand Central Terminal; image via Wikimedia Last year, when Amtrak first announced eight weeks of infrastructure repairs at Penn Station, all hell broke loose. Gov. Andrew Cuomo predicted the planned...
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MTA will use ‘magnetic wands’ to clean pounds of steel dust from NYC subway...
Gov. Andrew Cuomo oversees an MTA worker testing a magnetic wand at the 9th Ave subway station in Sunset Park; photo via the governor’s Flickr The Metropolitan Transporation Authority will deploy 700...
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In partnership with Spotify, MTA releases limited number of David Bowie...
Via Spotify Starting Wednesday, about 250,000 lucky commuters will be able to fly away with “Tickets to Mars,” a keepsake MetroCard released by Spotify as part of its David Bowie subway takeover. The...
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Cortlandt Street subway station, destroyed on 9/11, will reopen this fall
Also damaged in 9/11, the R-line at Cortlandt reopened in 2011; photo via Wikimedia Nearly 17 years after it was severely damaged in the terror attacks on September 11, 2001, and then temporarily...
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De Blasio pens letter to MTA seeking transparency in spending of $836M subway...
Photo via Wikimedia Mayor Bill de Blasio agreed earlier this month to fund half of the MTA’s $836 million emergency rescue plan for the subway, leading many to believe the feud between the mayor and...
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Agencies announce May town hall meetings to discuss impending L train shutdown
Photo of the L-train via Wiki Commons If you’ve got some choice words to say about the impending L train shutdown, you’ll soon get a chance to make them public. The MTA and the New York City Department...
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