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The “Please Rob Me” NYC Subway Map Wallet

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! This could possibly be the worst invention ever.   Who the hell came up with the idea for a wallet that magically transforms into a giant, unfolded subway map. Or as we lovingly refer to it the, […]

HopStop Takes Transit Mapping to a Whole New Level

HopStop just launched an updated version of its website that gives incredible transit directions for getting anywhere in New York, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco and D.C. There have been other contenders out there but this is by far the best solution we’ve seen. It pretty seamlessly navigates you through subways and buses […]

Subway Work Crew Supervisors Brought to Task Over Lapses in Safety

After the death of two track workers in less than a week late last month and subsequent downtime for subsequent track safety refresher courses the NYC Transit has found that supervisors are still lack in their safety procedures.
Random checks of maintenance and other projects late Monday found some supervisors and trackmen were ignoring key […]

M.T.A. Chairman Peter Kalikow is Resigning

Peter Kalikow has decided to step down from his post as M.T.A. chairman in order to spend more time driving Ferraris and kicking homeless people.
Mr. Kalikow, who lives in an exclusive Fifth Avenue building and often uses a chauffeur, never pretended to come from the ordinary masses. In a May 2005 article, my colleague […]

Another Track Worker Killed in Subway Incident

For the second time in five days a track worker was killed in a terrible subway incident and another was wounded.  55-year-old Marvin Franklin and his co-worker Jeffrey Hill were hit by a G train at the Hoyt-Schermerhorn station in downtown Brooklyn yesterday just before 5 p.m.
Transit sources said the incident occurred after a […]

2nd Ave Subway Gets 4th Groundbreaking in 35 Years; No Word Yet on if it Will Actually Get a Subway

Most of us weren’t even born when these political hippies with fat ties and goofy looking sideburns all stood around holding shovels and pickaxes in an eerily uncomfortable way, breaking ground for what was supposed to be construction on the 2nd Ave. subway line. Even then the politicians joked, “whatever is said about […]

Cell Phones: that much closer to taking over the world!

It’s probably the best thing in the world when you are on the F train between Boadway/Lafayette and West Fourth and your cell phone beeps because you have a text message. It comes as such a surprise that your heart jumps with elation. You also feel as if god favors you because […]

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