MTA greenlights $250M for consultants to expand Second Avenue subway — which they claim will cost $4.3B per mile to build
MTA spending is like a runaway train. The Metropolitan Transportation Board tickled nearly $250 million on Wednesday for consultants on the already expensive and long-term second-venue extension of the already huge and expensive second-venue subway extension. Phase 2 of the Megaplan is expected to inhale $7.7 billion, or about $4.3 billion per mile, if you […]
Aaron Judge-Juan Soto debate fuels Subway Series dream
There are so many things to make having two baseball teams in town incredibly cool. That has always been the case. “All the subway series from the 30s, 40s, 50s, and what got everything back in 2000,” and hints at looking at something else at one point in the future. It's just us. The White […]
NYC subway tumble goes viral after rider attempts to knock MAGA hat off man’s head
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Unhinged man hocks two ‘huge’ loogies on NYC woman in subway
A woman in NYC gives a huge, crazy spit twice – twice – in a horrifying event on the subway in the lower Manhattan area. Samantha Menela was on six trains from Canal Street and was looking down at the phone when she noticed someone was approaching her. “This guy spits out a huge lugie […]
30 years after deadly Tokyo subway gassing, survivors and victims’ families still seeking closure
Thirty years after the fatal sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway network, survivors and their families who have lost their loved ones are still seeking justice. When members of the cult released sarin nerve gas on a subway train in the capital on March 20, 1995, 13 people died and thousands became ill […]
NYPD transit commander demoted for allegedly faking subway crime stats: ‘Victimized the victim’
The head of Queens' NYPD Transit District was taken from his command amid allegations that police were determined to downplay the subway crime with his watch, sources tell the Post. Colonel Stephen Highland, who led Jamaica's Transit District 20, is allegedly forged signatures by two sergeants and a lieutenant under his command to play robbery […]
NYC subway station replaces benches with goofy leaning bars — and commuters are confused
These new lean bars can't stand scrutiny. The MTA replaced the bench with a new sloped bar at a bustling Manhattan subway station, which was widely panned by Strafanger as “unpleasant” and “somehow nasty.” The new metal slate was recently announced on the platform at West 4th Street Subway station, offering A, C and E […]
Shouting maniac hurls bottle at woman, 67, in random on subway assault as victim rails about attacker’s lengthy rap sheet
The screaming maniac threw a bottle at a 67-year-old woman at a midtown metro station on Monday. Vandel Williams, 30, has almost 12 previous busts and multiple documented mental health incidents, but there was no clear reason on the stairs leading up to the five trains on Grand Central 42nd Avenue. Williams has made 11 […]
NYC subway victim ‘angry’ to be stat in soaring crime
Brooklyn Strafunger, whose faces are randomly sliced by a stranger on his way to work, is angry at becoming an even more random victim on the rails. Earlton Massenberg Jr. spoke of his fear to the Post, recalling how he nodded when he woke up to the burning pain in his face last Sunday. “I […]
Boy, 12, seriously hurt after falling off NYC train while subway surfing during morning rush: cops
The 12-year-old was seriously injured when he fell off a Queens train while surfing the subway during the rush hour Friday morning, officers said. Preteen was recklessly on train No. 7 when he fell off the side around 8:15am at 111th Street Station on Covid, authorities said. He landed on the tracks but was not […]