Starting Tuesday, AT&T and T-mobile subscribers will be taking their calls on the subway platforms, and possibly, on the train itself. Subscribers riding along the 14th Street corridor should be able to use their phones on the A, C, E, F, L, M, No. 1, 2 and 3 platforms. There is also expected to be service on the C and E platforms at 23rd Street. It it not clear yet if service will also work between stations, but we're sure we'll all find out soon enough.
All stations are expected to be outfitted with cell service by 2016.
posted by roomthreeseventeen
on Sep 22, 2011 -
59 comments
New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority has just finished the initial drilling phase of the
East Side Access project to bring the Long Island Railroad to Grand Central Terminal. What are they doing with the
tunnel boring machine?
Giving it a funeral. (NYTimes link, use this if you need to get past the paywall) Instead of removing the $8 million machine, the contractor responsible for this portion of the project has decided it will be cheaper to leave it in place at the end of the tunnel. This is not without precedent; some of the TBMs used for the
Channel Tunnel were turned off the tunnel mainline and left buried.
posted by spitefulcrow
on Jul 25, 2011 -
45 comments
"
Conductor turns the New York subway system into an interactive string instrument. Using the MTA’s actual subway schedule, the piece begins in realtime by spawning trains which departed in the last minute, then continues accelerating through a 24 hour loop. The visuals are based on Massimo Vignelli’s 1972 diagram."
[more inside]
posted by pwally
on Jan 31, 2011 -
13 comments
A day by day account of the progress of the manufacturing of 12 Glass Windscreen panels by artist Mario Muller. The pieces are a commission by the MTA Arts in Transit program for Kingsbridge Road station in the Bronx. The work is being done at Franz Mayer of Munich in Germany.
More on the artist
here
and
here.
posted by pt68
on Oct 14, 2007 -
6 comments
a Google Maps view of NYC, centered on Central Park Google Maps has started displaying subway stops (with the names of the lines that serve each each stop) in New York City. Clearly this is a work in progress (full building outlines are available only in some parts of Manhattan and Brooklyn, and some subway stops currently list only one of the multiple trains that serve the stop). Still, this is excellent news not only for natives but also for tourists (whose only subway-map reference may be the significantly, sometimes radically "not to scale" version put out by the MTA).
posted by allterrainbrain
on Feb 9, 2007 -
46 comments
Like old cheese and vomit, mixed with dog food ... Halitosis and aged cabbage ... Rank Swiss cheese ... Sour milk ... Pee in the air every day ... Like an open corpse ... Like a musty homeless person decomposing in musky homeless person urine ... Caramel with a slight undertone of mildly rank underarm ... Rodenticide. It's Gawker's
New York City Subway Smell Map.
posted by Urban Hermit
on Sep 26, 2006 -
17 comments
Labor Unions in a free market.
Southern California is being gripped by crippling strikes by
transit workers and
grocery clerks -- both over health care -- that has stranded thousands of mostly poor commuters across Los Angeles and is expected to sap millions from the local economy.
As a person who can't drive due to a visual disability, I am personally effected by the MTA transit strike (that is rumored may last several months). State employees are not allowed to strike. Shouldn't that also be the case for essential services, such as public transit?
posted by lola
on Oct 14, 2003 -
80 comments
A Disgusting Practice Vanishes With the Token "Officially, the crime is classified as theft of Transit Authority property. But among transit police officers it is more accurately and less delicately known as
token sucking. Unfortunately for everyone involved, it is exactly what it sounds like." (Originally from NYT. More
here.)
posted by Artifice_Eternity
on Apr 28, 2003 -
18 comments
Style Wars the 1983 graffiti, breakdancing and
hip hop culture proto-documentary 20 years later comes out from obscure, grainy, 5th hand bootlegs and into the
21st Century. This funky white boy is excited. (Be sure you check out some of the
other links from the NPR site!)
posted by Pollomacho
on Apr 25, 2003 -
9 comments
