MTA — Saturday, April 24, 2010 7:00
New York's MTA to put Security Cameras on Subway
NYers Keep Loving Their Chickens
Monday, April 19, 2010 19:30
NYC is quietly succumbing to a terminal case of chicken scratch fever: we ride the subway with our chickens, we have runaway chickens, our liquor stores hold them hostage, some dude in the Bronx was giving away 75 of them, and it’s part of our favorite catchphrase. if you participate in any of these chicken-related [...]
MTA Doesn't LOL At WTF Poster – The Consumerist
Monday, April 19, 2010 11:30
In these cash-strapped times, you’d think anyone willing to buy $50K worth of ad space on subways and buses would be a good thing. but for some reason, the new York Metropolitan Transit Authority wasn’t happy with this recently proposed ad campaign. In posters that ape the MTA’s own service advisory posters, the Working Families [...]
Half of New York City's subway cameras on the blink
Tuesday, April 13, 2010 4:00
NEW YORK – About half of the 4,313 security cameras installed along New York City’s subways aren’t seeing a thing – a blind spot in the crime and terrorism safety net for the nation’s largest city. “A lot of those cameras don’t work, and maybe someday we’re going to get very badly hurt because of [...]
Free TubeBuddy App Helps You Navigate the London Underground | NYC …
Monday, April 12, 2010 13:00
TubeBuddy is a free application that gives you access to critical information about the London Underground (Tube) from your BlackBerry. it provides live DLR service updates along with live departure schedules. they recently added OS 5.0 compatibility along with direct APN internet connectivity for people roaming in the UK. TubeBuddy is a nice little app [...]
NYC MTA Warns of “Doomsday's” Eminent Approach.
Saturday, April 10, 2010 12:30
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority said on Friday that it will start to implement its “doomsday” budget on March 25 if the state Legislature does not pass a financial rescue plan. The proposed budget would include fare increases of up to 30%, the elimination of some subway and bus lines, and layoffs for up to 1,100 [...]
New York Injury News- Over 2000 NYC subway cameras do not work …
Wednesday, April 7, 2010 3:30
April 2, 2010 (NewYorkInjuryNews.com – Featured News, Injury News, new York City, Premises Liability) New York, NY (NewYorkInjuryNews.com) – about half of the cameras along NYC’s subways are out of commission and police patrols have been cut from the areas due to budgeting issues, as reported by amNewYork. over the last 10 years, the MTA [...]
Inspectors Who Precede the Official Ones – City Room Blog …
Tuesday, April 6, 2010 13:00
What we’re reading this morning: A former health inspector working as a food safety and sanitation consultant is part of an almost entirely unregulated cottage industry that has evolved in New York to run interference with the health department, even pleading the restaurants’ cases at the administrative tribunal where violations can be reduced or dismissed. [...]
Report: Weekend trains often not coming on time
Tuesday, April 6, 2010 5:00
Monday March 15, 2010 7:55 PM by Heather Haddon Straphangers just aren’t getting what they deserve on the weekends. Weekend trains were late nearly 30 percent of the time, according to a citywide survey released yesterday by the New York City Transit Riders Council. And service could further suffer later this year, as the MTA [...]
News Brooklyn man confesses as three are arrested in fatal subway …
Sunday, April 4, 2010 19:00
A 19-year-old Brooklyn man and two of his pals were hit with double-murder raps on Thursday night for fatally knifing two men on a downtown No. train, police said. Brenddy Garcia confessed to being the knife-wielding butcher in the horrific subway slaughter early Sunday morning, police said. “He’s the one who did the cutting,” a [...]
