John Tauranac has spent a long academic and literary career in Manhattan; known for his chairmanship of an MTA Map Committee that produced the subway map in current use, he has created a 2024 enhanced poster size version, easier to read and filled with more detail than currently available. ( Photo: Ralph Spielman) Man who Oversaw Subway Map Redesign 50 Years Ago is Pushing a New Version The subway map that John Tuaranac oversaw more than 50 years ago and which is still in use today is referred to as the Tuaranac... News 01 Nov 2024 | 02:42
MTA Chair & CEO Janno Lieber, Chief Customer Officer Shanifah Rieara, Metro-North President Catherine Rinaldi, and NYCT President Demetrius Crichlow host a local media roundtable for Manhattan, Bronx, and Hudson Valley outlets at the West Farms Depot on Friday, Oct 25, 2024. ( Marc A. Hermann / Metropolitan Transportation Auth) Transit Bigwigs Address State of the Train & Bus Systems On Friday October 25, the poobahs of New York City and state public transportation held a 90-minute a roundtable event with... News 28 Oct 2024 | 05:01
The Nostalgia Train looped around the Old City Hall Station, much as the inaugural subway did in its first run on October 27 1904. The station is no longer used by regular passenger-carrying subway trains, one of many “ghost stations” that the four-train nostaglia train visited last weekend. ( Photo: Ralph Spielman) “Ghost Stations” on Itinerary As Nostalgia Train Hauls Subway Passengers Back in Time Five hundred lucky New Yorkers took a trip back in time last weekend on a special four-train nostalgia ride that included... News 28 Oct 2024 | 12:46
MTA Chair & CEO Janno Lieber (at mic) hosts a groundbreaking ceremony with developer BXP at the 343 Madison Av. site on Tuesday, Oct 1, 2024, At the event were (from left) State Senator Liz Krueger, Daniel Garodnick, City Coucil Memer Keith Powers, Assembly Member Alex Bores, Lieber, City Planning Executive Director Edith Hsu-Chen, BXP EVP Hilary Spann, MTA C&D President Jamie Torres-Springer, BXP SVP Rich Monopoli, LIRR President Rob Free. ( Photo: Marc A. Hermann / Metropolitan Transportation Auth) Work Begins on New Entrance to Grand Central Madison...but It Won’t Open for 18 Months A new entrance to Grand Central Madison, the MTA’s $11.1 billion station that sits a quarter mile underground, is being erected... News 04 Oct 2024 | 03:14
The new MTA Capital Plan will include over 1,500 new subway cars, some destined for the 1 and 3 trains, whose equipment started running in 1984. ( Photo: Ralph Spielman) MTA Seeks $68.4 Billion for Capital Improvements: Will Albany Find a Way to Fund It? “Fix what you have” said MTA Chair/CEO Janno Lieber at the conclusion of the MTA’s monthly board meeting in late September... News 30 Sep 2024 | 03:10
A new joint NYPD/Sanitation Dept task force is now charged with removing so-called ghost cars that are parked on city streets. In the past, the crackdown focused on spotting moving vehicles in traffic on city bridges. In the new push, Fifteen NYPD officers will be assigned to a new interagency task force. ( Photo: Ralph Spielman) New Ghost Car Crackdown Now Grabbing Parked Cars from NYC Streets; Over 1,000 Seized So Far In the latest crackdown on ghost cars–vehicles with altered or missing license plates–the city now says it will begin grabbing... News 23 Sep 2024 | 10:58
The Great Elephant Migration has mounted public art in a unique way: 100 elephants in an orderly faux migration along lower 9th Avenue, a sight for Gotham residents to behold. They will be residing in this space until October 20. ( Photo: Ralph Spielman) One Hundred Life-Size Elephant Sculptures Thunder into Meatpacking District A herd of 100 elephants thundered into the Meatpacking district earlier this month, but there is no danger of being trampled.... News 16 Sep 2024 | 11:39
The MTA lawsuit involves access to the three buildings along the east side of Second Avenue between 108th and 111th Streets and the agency said two landlords are blocking access to their buildings which need to be assessed before work can continue. While the first building is located at what will be the northern end of the 106th Street Station, the structures a block away adjoin a tunnel that was built for the project in the 1970s. ( Photo: MTA Design and Construction.) Second Avenue Subway Stall: Two Landlords Hit with Lawsuit by MTA for Blocking Access The Second Ave. subway expansion has come to a screeching halt because the MTA claims a couple of East Harlem landlords are... Home 28 Aug 2024 | 10:21
A happy participant has finished his work for the day on July 27. A day of special art making project at Brooklyn’s New York Transit Museum was a resounding success for all ages who spent the afternoon creating transit-focused images on paper. ( Photo: Nora Gomez-Strauss/Whitney Museum) “Whitney On The Rails” Rides to the Transit Museum This year, the Whitney Museum ventured out of its Gansevoort St. galleries and into the boroughs to celebrate the 2024 Whitney... City Arts 23 Aug 2024 | 11:53
Crackdown Day 1: MTA Senior Vice President Frank Annicaro, NYC’s bus czar, took the task of informing a van driver that he could not discharge passengers in the bus lanes on the first day of a crackdown on Aug. 19. By that point, the M34 SBS bus behind him had already taken images that will be sent out, with a ticket within two weeks of the violation. ( Photo: MTA Ray Raimundi) DOT and MTA Begin Crackdown on Vehicles in Bus Lanes Car owning Manhattanites, beware! The NYC Transit buses on Aug. 19 finally began to record illegal bus lane behavior that... Home 19 Aug 2024 | 05:25
A first look is always telling: Tompkins Square Bagels’ location on Second Avenue in the East Village. A very similar location is opening on the UES this October. ( Photo: Ralph Spielman) Bagel Wars May Erupt as Tompkins Square Bagels Rolls Up to the UES Upper East Siders beware! And brace yourself with bready hunger—for a new competitor in the Manhattan Bagel War will soon... News 29 Jul 2024 | 04:16
It’s an open and shut case when it comes to these 25-ton Queens Midtown Tunnel flood doors. ( MTA) Transit Watch: MTA Vehicular Tunnel Flood Doors to be Tested, Subway Crime Down Live tests utilizing 25-ton doors designed to protect the Hugh L Carey and Queens Midtown Tunnels against extreme weather... News 23 Jul 2024 | 12:19
Artists rendering of a new Tracks Raw Bar looking from the bar area into the dining area. Tracks plans to return to its underground roots in the LIRR Concourse level inside Penn Station by year end. ( Photo: Alepreda Architects/courtesy of Bruce Caulfield) Tracks To Chug Back to Its Underground Roots at LIRR Concourse in Penn Station After a 5-year hiatus, Tracks Raw Bar and Grill will be moving back home to the Long Island Rail Road level of Pennsylvania... News 10 Jul 2024 | 12:27
At Utopia Bagels newest location, one can sample 18 different types of bagels, first kettle boiled, then baked in a machine over seventy-years-old. ( Ralph Spielman) Utopia Bagels—of Whitestone, Queens—Rolls into Mid-Town Manhattan Well, East 34th Street may not have reached Nirvana, but now there is a Utopia— Utopia bagels that is. Since June 2, the... Food & Drink 21 Jun 2024 | 07:17
Penn Station’s Art at Amtrak had a redo, and it’s impressive! Rico Gaston has a unique way of creating art, combining the unique elements that make living in New York City invigorating.... News 16 Jun 2024 | 02:03
