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Monthly Archives: August 2009
Looking Down on Subway Advertising
Maybe this has been going on for a while, but I never noticed it before: Ads running the length of the downtown-bound 4 (or was it 5?) train out of Grand Central/42nd. The ads were for Monroe College and said … Continue reading
New Crosswalk at Hawthorne Station/Farewell to ‘Hummerville’
I’ve parked my bike in a different spot the last few days. In a nod to the daily forecast for thunderstorms, I’ve eschewed the bike rack I fought so hard for to park under the staircase overpass. I’ve also noticed there’s … Continue reading
Posted in Bike Rack, Crosswalks, Hawthorne, Hummerville, Little G, Pleasantville, Priusville
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Naked, Drunken, Puking Riders on LIRR
Fox 5 dedicated a lengthy news story last night to the boozy Sunday night ride to the city on a certain Long Island Railroad train. It seems a major beer blowout at the Boardy Barn in Hampton Bays wraps up … Continue reading
Posted in LIRR
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Beach Trips Without Traffic…Or Beach
Since it’s the season of beach trips and the like, reader Harvey shares a fun beach getaway on the train for people who don’t like the beach. He writes: It’s the LIRR Sunken Forest package, which combines an interesting train … Continue reading
Metro-North Blogger Faces Off With MTA
StationStops, one of the very, very few Metro-North related blogs that are updated with any sort of regularity, is butting heads big-time with the MTA over some copyright issues. Far as I can tell, an MTA lawyer contacted StationStops, whose … Continue reading
Gov Shows Tarrytown Love
Governor David Paterson stepped up on his stump across from Tarrytown station today to announce $39 mil worth of stimulus funds to be spent renovating the station. Some 2,800 riders use the Tarrytown station each day, many schlepping over the … Continue reading
Posted in Metro North, Tappan Zee, Tarrytown
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Let Trainjotting Save You a Google Search About ‘Mad Men’
In case you were wondering, all signs indicate that Don Draper, when not occupying his Manhattan hotel doghouse or traipsing through coke communes in SoCal, lives in Ossining. He takes Metro-North each day (thought it may have been called ConnRail … Continue reading
Posted in Don Draper, Mad Men, Ossining
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Straphanger Joe is One Sheet to the Wind
Subway Surreal F-train. Friday Afternoon. Rockefeller Center stop. Ninety-two degrees outside. Seventy-eight degrees inside the car. Air conditioner blowing. Cool air from the vent blows down on me, standing in the car, in front of the doors. My … Continue reading
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On Vacay…
I’ve gone off the rails for a week. Please visit our rich trove of old content in the meantime.
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Suitcase Charge For Subways–Yup, Clyde Haberman’s At It Again
Let’s start charging subway riders extra fees for hauling suitcases, bicycles and refrigerators on the trains, argues Clyde Haberman. Before we discuss this we have to establish who Clyde Haberman is and how he thinks. Clyde Haberman seems to have … Continue reading
Posted in Clyde Haberman, MTA, Subway
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