Tag: Subway
WNYC News Blog
Signal Problems Cause Most Delays in NYC Subway: Report
Wednesday, May 09, 2012
More than a third of all long subway delays are caused signal problems, according to an analysis of 3,000 text alerts sent by the NY MTA last year.
WNYC News Blog
Who Took Those 1.6 Billion Subway Rides in 2011?
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Subway ridership rose 2.3 percent in 2011. New Yorkers and city visitors took 1.64 billion trips, the most in any year since 1950.
WNYC News Blog
New York's Subways Booming As Bus Ridership Continues Decline
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
The New York City subway recorded 1.6 billion rides in 2011 — the system's highest number since 1950.
WQXR Features
For His 327th Birthday, Bach Goes Underground
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Wednesday was a big day for Bach enthusiast Dale Henderson, it being J.S. Bach's 327th birthday as well as the second “Bach in the Subways Day." Watch a slideshow of the event as it played out.
Features
LOOK | A Slideshow of Underground Subway Art
Thursday, March 15, 2012
The MTA released its new Arts for Transit app on Thursday, which has background information and photos of each one of the 236 permanent artworks in the New York City transit system. See a slideshow of some of our favorite works of underground subway art included in the app here.
The Leonard Lopate Show
Please Explain: The Subway
Friday, March 02, 2012
This week’s Please Explain takes a look at something familiar (yet still mysterious) to every New Yorker: the subway. John Tauranac, architecural historian and designer of city and transit maps, and Andrew Sparberg, former Long Island Railroad manager and director of the railroad technology program at Technical Career Insitutes, talk about how the subway was built and how it transformed the metropolitan area.
WNYC News Blog
Transit Chief Opposes Subway Food Ban, Apologizes to Bill's Sponsor
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
New York City's new transit chief said he opposes a bill that would ban food on the subways despite a rat infestation in the system — but backpedaled Tuesday on remarks he made about the sponsor of the bill.
WNYC News Blog
MTA Ends 4-Night Shutdown of No. 4, 5, 6 Trains
Friday, January 13, 2012
Late-night riders of the No. 4, 5 and 6 train have their subway back starting Friday after the MTA shut it down overnight for four days this week.
The Brian Lehrer Show
Unfulfilled Trains
Tuesday, January 03, 2012
Jim O'Grady, WNYC's transit reporter, talks about New York City's abandoned subway stations.
The Brian Lehrer Show
Bruce Davidson on Photographing the Subway
Friday, December 30, 2011
Bruce Davidson, legendary photographer, discusses the 25th Anniversary of his collection, Subway, which has just been re-released and reviews our listener-submitted subway shots.
The Brian Lehrer Show
The Science of Subway Sleeping
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Carl Bazil, professor of clinical neurology and director of the Division of Epilepsy and Sleep at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, talks about his subway sleeping experiment as documented by Christine Haughney for the New York Times.
WNYC News Blog
City to Put Brakes on Some Subway Service Overnight
Monday, November 14, 2011
In the city that never sleeps, the subways soon will.
WNYC Archives & Preservation
Tony Schwartz On The Subway
Monday, November 07, 2011
In this 1964 episode of Around New York, the inimitable Tony Schwartz presents an aural portrait of New York City’s subway.
WNYC News Blog
Subway Riders' Worry: Service Slipping Back To The Bad Old Days
Monday, November 07, 2011
New York City Transit suffered its third derailment in six months on October 24, when two train cars jumped the tracks. It's the kind of major breakdown that tends to make riders wonder, could the subway be sliding backward toward the dark days of the 1980s?
WNYC News Blog
MTA Unveils Plan to Help Remove Rats From Subways
Monday, October 24, 2011
The MTA unveiled on Monday a new program meant to lower the number of rats in the subway by removing trash from stations.
WNYC News Blog
Derailment Causes Subway Delays on No. 4, 5 and 6 Trains
Monday, October 24, 2011
Nineteen people were evacuated Monday morning after two cars of an uptown No. 6 train derailed between Brooklyn Bridge and Canal Street, an MTA spokesman said. No one was injured.
WNYC News Blog
MTA Delays Dollar Charge On New Metrocards
Monday, October 24, 2011
A controversial plan by the MTA to charge a dollar for a new Metrocard has been put off until at least until January. Programming Metrocard vending machines to charge the fee has turned out to be harder than the authority expected.
The Brian Lehrer Show
Bruce Davidson on Photographing the Subway
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Legendary photographer Bruce Davidson discusses the 25th anniversary of his collection Subway, which has just been re-released. Plus, he discusses the submissions to our listener subway photo project - including those from Vesna Gajic, Olga Kasatkina, and Ernest Herman.
EXHIBIT: Aperture Gallery presents Bruce Davidson: Subway | On view: Monday, October 3-Saturday, October 29, 2011 | Info and Directions»»
Gallerina
This Week: Must-See Arts in the City
Thursday, October 13, 2011
There is so much going on this week, I don't even know where to begin -- from crafty modernism at MAD to the scratchy-pop paintings of Gary Panter in Chelsea to '90s graphic novels and '80s subway photos. New York has got it going on this week. Here's what we've got in the hopper.
WNYC News Blog
2 Struck By Subway Trains
Monday, October 03, 2011
Two subway passengers were struck by trains during the Monday morning commute.