Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Subways

To Lubricate Street Life, Lower the Unlimited Fare

By Alex Marshall | Feb 15, 2008 | 29 Comments

Yesterday around 10 a.m. I got on the number 3 subway line at Bergen Street in Brooklyn, where I easily found a seat. As usual, I noticed that there was space on the baby-blue benches all the way up to 96th Street, where I switched trains to go to Columbia University at 116th Street. Only […]

Has Richard Brodsky Ever Paid a Subway Fare?

By Aaron Naparstek | Feb 11, 2008 | 22 Comments

Television news legend Gabe Pressman hosted a debate on congestion pricing between Westchester Assemblyman Richard Brodsky and Partnership for New York City President Kathy Wylde on Friday. The transcript is online at WNBC and it’s worth a read if you want to see Wylde catch Brodsky in a couple of small but significant mistruths and […]

Are Subway Riders the Angriest Commuters?

By Ben Fried | Jan 29, 2008 | 55 Comments

The Times has been running a series this month, called Next Stop, about the experience of commuting in the New York metro region. Reporter Billie Cohen took a different route to or from Manhattan every weekday, riding all manner of buses, trains, and subways. No bike commutes so far (and with just a few days […]

Highlights of the “Equal Tolls, Unequal Access” Discussion

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 13, 2007 | 7 Comments

April Greene reports on Monday’s congestion pricing panel discussion at the New School: "And now the last of the bald men will speak," said Jeffrey Risom, an urban designer at Gehl Architects of Denmark, as he took the podium at Monday night’s congestion pricing panel at the New School. Indeed, all four panelists did possess […]

Make Your Own Subway Advisory

By Jason Varone | Aug 23, 2007 | No Comments

The SUBWAYblogger found a potentially useful new tool for users of Facebook, a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. The Subway Status application, which was not developed by the MTA, is a user generated subway alert system. Now you can forget about those wet mornings […]

What Up, G?

By Aaron Naparstek | Aug 13, 2007 | 1 Comment

Graffiti at the Metropolitan Ave. subway station on the G line. Streetsblog will be keeping an eye on Save The G, a new blog advocating for service improvements on the beleaguered G subway line. The blog is being produced by a coalition of civic groups and elected officials from Brooklyn and Queens, including, Queens Civic […]

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