why is nobody talking about the cup holders on the new Acela trains? easily the biggest QoL upgrade

This story should be getting the same degree of outrage and coverage that Michelle Go's murder did.

I promise you, you’re not enraged enough about this horrific killing and maiming. The killer has no driver’s license, no insurance, and his vehicle was registered in Mississippi, but he managed to drive it through Manhattan during UN week with a novelty souvenir back plate.

Can we just go back to calling all of our infrastructure descriptively what they are? The Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel The West Side Highway The Interboro Parkway (sorry, Jackie) Hell, we could even go back to East River Drive

Only about a 10% dip in ridership due to Rosh Hashanah this week. That's not bad at all.

The thing that gets me about the Public Housing argument is that the NIMBYs who fight you when you try to make any kind of housing are going to fight you ten times harder if you try to make public housing because NIMBYism is inherently conservative and conservatives hate poor people.

The @nytransitmuseum.bsky.social is opening the archives for tours during #OHNY next month. You'll need a ticket. ohny.org/place/new-yo...

💡 Color-coding of station entrance globes began in the 1980s to help #NYCsubway riders determine if entrances were open or closed, and if a token booth was available. Green globes indicated a 24-hour token booth, yellow meant part-time, and red meant the entrance was blocked or was exit only.

Picking a fight with beer wholesalers really means he's on full tilt

COOL IDEA: How geothermal technology could chill MTA’s sauna-like subway platforms. 🥵 🚇 ❄️ “There is a lot of heat produced down there and then it accumulates and there’s nowhere to go.” ❄️ 🚇 🥵 NEW story in @thecity.nyc www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/25/m...

Good article. This problem is also rampant with trains - every agency wants custom kit instead of just buying things off the rack.

Absurd for safety reasons (no one benefits from more unlicensed drivers); and absurd for cost reasons (we don’t have enough truck drivers as it is). Otherwise, no notes.

At this point, I can’t imagine how anyone can take “tough on crime” types as being serious about actually reducing crime, as opposed to performatively making disliked people suffer, but I’m sure all too many will.

This is possibly the dumbest bill the City Council has come up with on fare policy in recent years, and Yusef Salaam, Oswald Feliz, and Chris Banks should be embarrassed to put their names on this garbage.

A lunch-time reup of our feature and investigation into the holes in the social safety net underground =>

#TodayInHistory: #OnThisDay in 2012, arguably the biggest quirk of the #NYCsubway system was resolved when an uptown transfer finally opened between the 6 train at Bleecker Street station and the B/D/F/M trains at Broadway–Lafayette Street station. The uptown transfer was completed in 2012.

the cure to floundering underground retail in the city is maybe bringing back a dingy dive bar

He picks the same seat and then acts like it doesn’t make any sense. I need visual proof of Cuomo in the subway. Someone ask him how much the subway is.

"i like this thing" "hey, your opponent also likes that thing! here is your chance for some levity and to show that you are a normal person" "no"

"Why he would pick that, i have no idea" my guy, you picked it too

Folks, a query:

In most polls, Sliwa + Adams + Cuomo < Mamdani, and this "drop out" equation requires every single voter of the candidate that's dropping out to go against Mamdani. Considering these guys are all still on the ballot, all this conspiracy seems to feed into Mamdani's hands at this point.

Likely aiding the inevitable lawsuit to come over this.

we get it zohran, you're 33 and have young supple knees and don't need to stretch your legs out. brag

That's the right answer. Seat 4.

This generic acetaminophen had an Amtrak ACS-64, four Amfleet 1 cars, a Conrail EMD GP15-1, and some Conrail rolling stock in it. The problem is more serious than I thought.

Why should a person on a bike get a criminal summons for traveling 16 mph, while the driver of a 5,000 pound SUV doesn't even receive a ticket for speeding at 35 mph? Mayor Adams continues his war on biking with this backward rule — despite >90% of public comments opposing it.

DOT Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez, plus transit advocates Ben Furnas and Betsy Plum, weigh in on the city's bus rapid transit plan for Brooklyn's Flatbush Ave.

This unlocks an entirely new level of “are you Jewish?” bsky.app/profile/luxa...

the US if Tylenol actually caused autism

We're excited to see commutes shortened for Upper Hudson riders. Kudos to Metro-North for both cutting schedule padding & moving quickly. The MTA should go farther still & electrify the Hudson Line so that even local Poughkeepsie trains can run under 90 minutes. www.governor.ny.gov/news/governo...

Andrew Cuomo is cleaning up among Republican voters, which is just reality finally catching up to what we've all said about Andrew Cuomo for years.

superb and sublime

This is very good, it's important that MTA's railroads are drilling into schedules and running times to cut down travel times, especially for these longer-haul commutes. Hopefully this is not a repeat of the LIRR's 59 minute Ronkonkoma express debacle... www.mta.info/press-releas...

7 bus lane and bus stop violations since the end of January. What a menace. howsmydrivingny.nyc/6aur3wi3

A line that stuck out to me (and I think nobody else) in yesterday's NJGov debate: Ciattarelli (GOP nominee) describing the turnpike as a "mass transit system."

This is one of the many reasons why Alina Habba being married to a NYC parking lot mogul is very funny

Fun fact: it’s not who you think that makes parking in NYC work like that, it’s the parking garage owners’ lobby, who want you to get frustrated and pay.

this is actually my great frustration of walking around in new york.

"your project proposes to reprioritize the street layout to focus on walking, biking and transit, as opposed to the current auto-centric configuration" "several elements that impede vehicle capacity and speed" "counter to DOT's priority of focusing... on projects that promote vehicular travel"

Trump is rescinding road safety grants all over the country, in blue states and red ones. The reason: those projects are "hostile" to cars. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

MAMDANI: “.. we must use every tool at our disposal to send a message to Washington and corporate powers alike: our freedom to speech is not a bargaining chip.” @variety.com $DIS variety.com/2025/tv/news...

There is a smart way to fire up liberal anti-Trump Democratic voters who otherwise might be skeptical of a democratic socialist.

Thank you, Sheldon Silver, for making this project take decades longer than it should have.

Suozzi's making it very clear that his idea of a big tent only extends in one direction--I'm expected to back his candidacy, but he can't be expected to back the candidate that voters like me chose in the primary. It's fundamentally arrogant.

Are you guys the only alpha males who can save western civilization or are you afraid of Manhattan Just Can you pick please

spoken like so many real estate hustlers bragging about all their deals no matter whether they've closed or even exist at all.

Hakeem Jeffries voted for Charlie Kirk Day but still isn’t sure if he’ll endorse Zohran Mamdani. This is why the approval rating of the Democratic Party is lower than Trump’s or the GOP.

Hakeem Jeffries is the same guy who will not endorse the democratic nominee for NYC Mayor lol