Subway Tragedies Spark Outrage from Politicians

Written by NY Press on January 30, 2013. Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit, News OTDT, News Our Town, Our Town, Our Town Downtown, West Side Spirit

Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer wants answers after a recent spike in deaths, injuries By Caroline Lewis A man jumped onto the subway tracks as an R train came hurtling toward the platform at the Fourth Avenue-Ninth Street Station in Park Slope on Sunday morning. The man was taken to the hospital and remained in
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Notes From The Neighborhood

Written by Megan Finnegan Bungeroth on August 9, 2012. Posted in Notes from the Neighborhood, Our Town

CB6 Asks City to Hit the Brakes While the Department of City Planning (DCP) chugs forward with a rezoning proposal for East Midtown, the local community board is asking them to slow down. The city is hoping to change zoning regulations for an area around Grand Central Terminal, from East 39th to 57th streets, in
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C Tops List as the Worst Line in the City

Written by West Side Spirit on August 8, 2012. Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit, News OTDT, Our Town Downtown, West Side Spirit

by Paul Bisceglio Have a favorite subway line? So does the New York Public Interest Research Group, whose Straphangers Campaign released its annual State of the Subway report last week. The report ranks subway lines from best to worst by compiling MTA New York City Transit data from 2011 in six categories: amount of scheduled
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Subway Olympics: Which is NYC’s Best Line?

Written by NYPress on August 5, 2012. Posted in Breaking News, News OTDT, Our Town Downtown

By Paul Bisceglio Have a favorite subway line? So does the New York Public Interest Research Group, whose Straphangers Campaign released its annual State of the Subway report this week. The report ranks subway lines from best to worst by compiling 2011 MTA New York City Transit data on in six categories: amount of
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Rodents Run Amok! How Much of a Threat Do Rats Pose?

Written by NYPress on June 19, 2012. Posted in Miscellaneous, News OTDT, News Our Town, NY Press Exclusive, Our Town, Our Town Downtown

Another subway rat attack unnerves New Yorkers by Nick Gallinelli We’ve all had the dream— where we’re standing in front of a large audience, larger than reasonably possible, and we’re stark naked. Fortunately for us, we’ve probably never actually experienced that dream in reality. Unfortunately for Ana Vargas, a 40-year-old New Yorker, she did (albeit in
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Gene Russianoff, Staff Attorney for the Straphangers Campaign

Written by admin on December 28, 2011. Posted in Breaking News

Sadly, the fare will go up at the end of 2012. That’s the MTA plan. Last time, in December 2010, the 30-day unlimited MetroCard went up 17 percent. If that happens again, be prepared for a $122 30-day card. It’s a good time to be in the 1 percent. There will be some good news
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C TRAIN IS CITY’S WORST

Written by admin on October 13, 2010. Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit, Notes From the Neighborhood west side spirit

By Dan Rivoli For two years in a row, the Straphangers Campaign called the C train the worst subway line in the city in its annual report card. The line stretches from the tip of northern Manhattan, through the Upper West Side and through the rest of the borough into Brooklyn, ending in the East
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