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Author Archives: TJ
Trains Collide Near Fairfield, Dozens Hurt
Two trains collided in Connecticut during the Friday evening rush. Sixty are injured, including five with critical injuries, reports the NY Times. An eastbound train derailed around 6:10 p.m., colliding with a westbound one just east of Fairfield Metro Station, … Continue reading
‘Mystery Train’, or, Finding a Famous Filmmaker Aboard the 6
I waited…and waited…and waited for the 6 train at 28th yesterday. It was lunchtime, and I was heading down to the East Village to drop off flyers for a book party I’m having next week. See, after the wild success … Continue reading
Share on the Square
The stretch of Park Avenue South below Grand Central, just east of the Pershing Square Diner and dotted with tourists and luggage waiting for shuttle buses to JFK, is closed to traffic–with a stack of the city’s controversial bike-share bike … Continue reading
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High Speed Trains, High Speed Internet
The TV networks like to give flashy code-names to their internal projects. If you caught the recent NY Times Magazine cover story about morning television, you noticed that the Today show honchos titled their efforts to eliminate Ann Curry from the … Continue reading
Posted in Acela
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Didn’t You Miss This Minute-By-Minute Minutia the Past Few Months?
It was 8:14–two minutes to spare as I pulled up to the bike rack at Hawthorne. My plan: Hop on the 8:16, dismount at White Plains, collect my earnings from Waxman’s Newsstand, which has been selling my NY Commuter Glossary … Continue reading
Posted in Bike Rack, Bike to Work
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’47′ Reasons to Avoid the New Haven Line
There’s a fun, poetic post from the Irish band Black 47 on a particularly rude ride on the New Haven Line. Black 47 got hot in the early ’90s when they were the house band at Paddy Reilly’s, performing colorful, … Continue reading
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We are Back
Well, well, well. We feel like a guy who fell asleep on the train in the tunnel out of Grand Central, and woke up three months later in Poughkeepsie. See, sometime around the first of February, our web hosting company, … Continue reading
Posted in Crosswalks, G. Francis, Hawthorne
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When Fares Were Fair
With our elected leaders seeing fit to expand the amount of pay we can deduct for transit expenses, I was poking around the Metro-North site, finding out precisely how much I cough up for my monthly ticket. Well, that apparently depends … Continue reading
Posted in Hawthorne, Metro North
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The Return of Trainswatting
The squash Tournament of Champions begins in Grand Central’s Vanderbilt Hall tomorrow. Ramy Ashour of Egypt is favored. Here’s some past GCT squash action.
Posted in Vanderbilt Hall
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