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Monthly Archives: June 2009
Schumer: MTA Should Hurry On Wifi Plans
New York’s low-key senior senator, Chuck Schumer, is urging the MTA to speed up its plans to make both Metro-North and the L.I.R.R. Wifi-enabled, which would mean wireless Internet for all those suitably equipped for it. Schumer, who would go … Continue reading
Straphanger Joe’s Subway Car is Packed to the Gills
Stepping Out It’s a giant fish flying over Manhattan with doors and windows that make it look like a flying fish subway car. Inside are benches and poles to hold on to and passengers including a couple of aliens, a … Continue reading
Screen Gems
On this historic day where we say good bye to the big, clunky analog TVs of yore, I’d like to salute a broadcast monstrosity I pass each day en route to the train. The good folks on Broad Street, just south … Continue reading
Short Bus, Shorter Fuse
I looked out the window this morning to yet another driving rain; indeed, the curse of Zeke Marcus and the High Line is alive and well. I’m fairly certain they call it “driving” rain because it makes you wish you were … Continue reading
High Line Curse Plays Out
It’s no coincidence that it’s done nothing but rain ever since the ribbon was snipped on the High Line railtrail park earlier this week. In fact, any student of elementary New York City demonology knows the story of Ezekiel Marcus, … Continue reading
Subway Station Pay Phones Don’t Work
Pay phones. Those big, clunky boxes affixed to public urinals (or were they called “phone booths”?) around the city in recent decades. Broken gray handsets, coin slots mucked up with gum. Those phones are still to be found in subway … Continue reading
No Fare!
Greeting Metro-North riders yesterday evening, and again this morning, was a flyer announcement the fare hikes, which go into effect Wednesday, June 17. One-way, ten-trip, weekly and monthly tickets go up between 5% and 11.6%. Intermediate full fares–I have no … Continue reading
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High Line is Open!
The High Line, the long awaited, celebrity endorsed old rail line that was recast as parkspace on Manhattan’s west side, is now open to the public. The brainchild of a pair of obsessive fans of trains and New York history–writer … Continue reading
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Oh, the Nerve!
Here in Gotham, we call it moxie. Or hutzpah. Or balls. Elsewhere, they call it rude. I was schlepping up to Grand Central around 5:15 yesterday, waiting to cross 32nd at Park. A middle-aged woman was crossing from the north. … Continue reading
Distraught Woman Can’t Go to Kisco After Near Train Accident
Pleasantville’s own Linda Misek-Falkoff is suing Metro-North over a problematic train crossing spot where she says she was trapped between the arm that descends when the train is coming (to her rear) and the tracks. The crossing in question is Green … Continue reading