OH, RATS! Mayor Adams' big cheese in Hizzoner's war on rats exits City Hall post: sources 🐀 🧀 🐀 🧀 🐀 Another @katiehonan.bsky.social 🌐 WORLD EXCLUSIVE 🌐 — check it out, check it out, check it out in @thecity.nyc www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/23/r...

The MTA maps out more E. Harlem sites it needs to acquire via eminent domain before the 2nd Avenue Subway heads north to 125th “Back in 2003, some lawyers came by here to say the train was coming this way. So, I guess it’s finally getting here.” NEW in @thecity.nyc www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/19/s...

Two privately maintained escalators at 14th St-Union Square are out of service — in contrast to what the MTA app says. LIVE LOOK!

POTTY TALK: Uber & Lyft drivers tell NYC City Council they're straining from lack of access to toilets “I don’t have another option but to grab my cooler inside my car and open it up. I look in all directions and do what I need to do.” NEW in @thecity.nyc www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/15/b...

⭐️ ⛴️ CELEB SIGHTING ⛴️ ⭐️ Lunchbox — the first of the @nycferry.bsky.social fleet — spotted at Pier 11 in Lower Manhattan.

YES, SIR! Entire Staten Island Railway fleet now made up of new R211 cars, MTA sez And here’s an Oct. 2024 snap I took of MTA big Janno “It’s A Fair Question” Lieber greeting a railfan during the first R211 passenger run on Staten Island. The young man had built his own railcar.

Long before Mayor Adams gave Waymo a 🚦green light 🚦 to test robot cars in NYC, the company spent 💰millions 💰 wooing officials in hopes of someday having autonomous vehicles cleared to cruise city streets. 🤖 🚙 🤖 NEW story in @thecity.nyc w/ @smaldo.bsky.social www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/09/w...

One more for the thick ADAMS WORLD: INVESTIGATED file. Or HIZZONER DIZZONER, if you prefer. And what do you know, The Angry 😡 Cowboy 🤠 is on the case — again. From @thecity.nyc www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/28/h...

Federal Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy pledged Wednesday that the massive overhaul of Penn Station — wrested away from the state of New York earlier this year — will “move at the speed of Trump” once it starts in 2027. Check it out in @thecity.nyc www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/27/f...

Transit Reporter Code Title XI, Chapter VII, Section III mandates that ace transit scribes must sit on the floor during news conferences. The reporters at the Sean Duffy/Andy Byford press conference at Penn Station know the rules.

The PACE unit on Rikers Island is supposed to provide the highest care w/nurses and psychiatrists. On Saturday, Ardit Billa, 29, was found dead inside his PACE cell covered in feces. He hadn't left his cell in days, according to a jail source. My latest —> www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/25/a...

FUMBLE RECOVERY: A trumpet in Queens, dentures in The Bronx — and AirPods everywhere. Since 2015, MTA workers have fished 8,400 mobile phones & 700 eyeglasses off the subway tracks — with 6,700 calls so far this year. ⬇️ NEW story in @thecity.nyc ⬇️ www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/21/s...

A big “thank you!” always to the supporters who keep @thecity.nyc cranking. But… a bag of potato chips with some cash inside the way! 🌐 WORLD EXCLUSIVE 🌐 from @katiehonan.bsky.social www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...

A long-delayed pledge to extend the subway into East Harlem takes big step forward as MTA board approves $1.9 billion contract for the next phase of construction on the Second Avenue Subway. “For the people of East Harlem, the time of promises is over," Guv sez. www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/18/q...

High-ranking sauces tell me that “Dave Cologne right here” made an appearance at today’s very special MTA board meeting. Those same sauces say Mr. Cologne may be “Dave Cologne of Street blogs with the Knicks situation,” or @davecolon.bsky.social.

UNDERGROUND COMEDY ACT “‘I don’t know you, you don’t know me, it’s showtime, it’s gametime, lock in and get the dialogue and the script out.’” NEW: @thecity.nyc on the wacky, sometimes-lucrative world of subway stunts elaborately staged for social-media likes. www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/18/c...

NEXT STOP, 125th STREET: MTA announcing new 2nd Ave. Subway deals to build new stations while tunneling from 116th to 125th streets MTA board will vote on procurement packages at special Monday meeting

⭐️ SUBWAY CELEB SIGHTING ⭐️ ↖️⬆️↗️ MTA going your way ↖️⬆️↗️

⭐️⭐️ BUS CELEB SIGHTING ⭐️⭐️ Newly installed bus countdown clock along Columbus Avenue.

What’s next for the IBX, the proposed light-rail link between Brooklyn & Queens? As design & engineering begins, the head of @mta.info sez planned 19-station line is “not just a shiny object like some expansion projects.” ⬇️ NEW story in @thecity.nyc ⬇️ www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/01/i...

Transit Reporter Code Title XI, Chapter VII, Section III stipulates that transit scribes park it on the ground at news conferences. BREAKING: @simko-bednarski.bsky.social of the New York Daily News knows the score. ⬇️ Here’s the proof. ⬇️

The Board of Elections “had no choice but to count the ballots cast in the names of multiple dead people and at least one living person who did not vote.” 🗳️ 🤡 Politics Is Absurd, Chapter DCCCXVI 🤡 🗳️ Quite a tale here from @ekwalsh.bsky.social in @thecity.nyc www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/30/b...

RUNNING WITH DELAYS: Transit union slams late workers' comp pay for more than 3,500 NYCT employees "This is outrageous and unacceptable," @twulocal100.bsky.social chief sez. NEW in @thecity.nyc: www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/30/t...

Could the subway and bus fare hit $3 by January? 💰 🚆 🚍 *It’s a fare question* as MTA bigwig Janno "It's A Fair Question" Lieber has been known to say. NEW story in @thecity.nyc www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/30/s...

HIZZONER DIZZONER: More City Hall shenanigans from Mayor Adams - allegedly! - as he seeks public $ in re-elex run The Angry 😡 Cowboy 🤠 @gregbsmithnyc.bsky.social is on the case for @thecity.nyc — again. Check it out: www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/28/e...

Staten Island’s bus service is getting a boost, with newer rides replacing close to 40% of borough’s fleet by mid-2026, MTA officials said Monday. But swaps could cost riders in other boroughs, @twulocal100.bsky.social big warns. NEW in @thecity.nyc www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/28/s...

⭐️ SUBWAY CELEB SIGHTING ⭐️ The ultra-rare “Choose Your Own Adventure” countdown clock spotted in the wilderness.

A vote on a massive makeover of industrial Brooklyn coastline was postponed Thursday for the fifth time this year. The pause leaves the future of a $3.5 billion port redevelopment plan up in the air — again. NEW in @thecity.nyc www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/24/b...

⭐️ SUBWAY CELEB SIGHTINGS ⭐️ So many stars are out at 125th St. (2/3). • Platform barriers • OMNY vending machine • amNY newspaper rack

⭐️ SUBWAY CELEB SIGHTING ⭐️ An unemployed subway newsstand at Jay Street MetroTech is #OpenToWork, as they say on LinkedIn.

Transit Reporter Code Title XI, Chapter VII, Section III stipulates that ace transit scribes must sit on the floor during news conferences. BREAKING: Award-winning reporter @davecolon.bsky.social is a law-abiding individual, confirmed.

While transit advocates cling to dream of restoring rail service along an old Queens railway, parks proposal for the same spot stays on track. The Queensway would be a High Line-like “linear park” along tracks not in use since 1962. NEW in @thecity.nyc www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/16/r...

Hey, I saw my byline in the @ctmirror.org - BIG! Always good to see @thecity.nyc stories republished by other news outlets — your can do it, too! ctmirror.org/2025/07/16/l...

HIZZONER DIZZONER: Ex-top cop's explosive lawsuit sez Mayor Adams and NYPD brass are running "racketeering" enterprise Good stuff, as they say in the trade from @yoavgonen.bsky.social in @thecity.nyc www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/16/n...

After torrential rain turned several station entrances into waterfalls Monday, experts warn the subway will remain exposed to recurring flash flooding — unless the city and MTA better collaborate on pricey work to protect stations. NEW in @thecity.nyc www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/15/s...

WEIGHT-LOSS PLAN: With some of the heaviest subway cars on earth, the MTA looks to cut pounds on its next-generation fleet “Lighter trains are always better, they are cheaper to run, they accelerate faster, they brake faster.” NEW in @thecity.nyc www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/15/n...

this story brought to you by: everyone who has been to a park at dusk in the past month

Don’t be like Kris Kross and MISS THE BUS! 🚎 💰 🚎 Instead, read my latest story in @thecity.nyc about buses, getting that rarest of moments in the spotlight of a NYC mayoral race. www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/08/z...

“No one else has a bike like mine.” 🚲 🇲🇽 🇬🇹 🚲 On those flashy two-wheeled deliverista rides. Good stuff, as they say in the trade from @fractenberg.bsky.social & @clauirizarry.bsky.social. projects.thecity.nyc/delivery-wor...

“I only wish my mother and father were alive to see this day.” Decades after a 1988 Brooklyn murder, review unit finds man convicted in the shooting is “likely innocent.” Good stuff, as they say in the trade, from @reuvenblau.bsky.social in @thecity.nyc www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/01/b...

⭐️ SUBWAY CELEB SIGHTING ⭐️ MTA raises curtain on pair of new elevators at 66th St-Lincoln Center. Big lift - get it? - for riders at a station that had been without elevators since last fall.

⭐️ SUBWAY CELEB SIGHTING ⭐️ “Masstransiscope” spotted from a Manhattan-bound B train. Big!

New @nyctaxi.bsky.social rules say Uber & Lyft must give at least 72 hours’ notice before locking out drivers from the ride-hail apps. 🚘 “It’s affected 99% of the driver population,” said Brendan Sexton of the Independent Drivers Guild. 💰 Check it out in @thecity.nyc: www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/25/f...

Mamdani pulled an upset, but the real race has yet to begin. “This is the political earthquake that very few saw coming, unless you were on the ground and felt the rumbling. Now the top has been blown off." www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/25/m...

You want quotable New Yorkers? We got 'em! The words of voters "whose options included a pack of career politicians, a former governor who resigned in the face of sexual harassment allegations — and a heap of uncertainty." Check it out, check it out in @thecity.nyc www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/24/m...

🚨🥵🚨 BREAKING 🚨🥵🚨 Heatwave tables Stone Street Bros Season: Sauces

⭐️ SUBWAY CELEB SIGHTING ⭐️ A passing express train cools off the scorching local platform. 🥵🔥🥵🔥🥵🔥 😎🪭😎🪭😎🪭

The MTA is looking to loosen its prohibition on alcohol advertising, citing millions of dollars in potential revenue that such ads can create. Critics call move “a rotten shame,” while MTA bigs say booze-ad ban was “overly broad.” NEW in @thecity.nyc www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/23/m...

New look for former subway newsstands: Murals at Brooklyn station highlight art from New Yorkers with developmental disabilities. "She's going to love to see herself on the walls," one artist said of her dog, Rosie. NEW in @thecity.nyc www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/18/a...

⭐️ SUBWAY CELEB SIGHTING ⭐️ Platform safety bars on the platform at 57th St. in Manhattan as an F pulls into the station.