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Boston Shutdown Snarls Penn Station

With Boston in a full lock-down due to the ongoing manhunt for the surviving suspect in Monday's marathon bombings, travelers throughout the northeast found themselves facing delays and cancellations today.

Zak Pelaccio's New Restaurant Fish & Game in Hudson, NY -- Exterior Views

Located in Hudson, New York, Zak Pelaccio and Jori Emde's new restaurant is still a few months from opening. Veteran of Chickenbone Cafe, Five Ninth, and the Fatty empire, Zak Pelaccio fled the city with wife Jori Emde last year to settle in Old Chatham, NY, up in Columbia County. This region of r ... More >>

How to Handle Penn Station Without Popping a Xanax

There's an advertisement on the subways that you might have seen. It describes a project in the works - the largest public works extravaganza in the country - known as East Side Access: a portal from Grand Central Terminal that will outsource time and trains from Penn Station. As the sign says, "Com ... More >>

LIRR: Smooth Operator or Rife With Problems?

The Long Island Rail Road isn't just fraught with fraud: Looks like the MTA's plan to hook up the LIRR to Grand Central Terminal might be delayed a third time, the New York Post reports. What this means? The long-awaited, $7 billion connection wouldn't be complete until 2019, four years after the ... More >>

The Tunnel To Nowhere: Times Report Questions Gov. Christie's Decision To Scrap ARC Plan

When Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey struck down the Access to the Region's Core (ARC) plan two years ago, he gained enormous praise from the Right for standing up to the Obama administration's demands. However, according to a report this morning from the New York Times, the decision ... More >>

We're Really Freaking Happy With the Subway, Apparently

​Despite our own Steven Thrasher's harrowing experience on a smoke-filled 4 train last night, the MTA believes that we are mostly happier with New York City transit than we used to be (and apparently we do, too). According to the results of their just-released 2011 Customer Satisfaction Survey ... More >>

Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey

Keep Your Beer Cold and Get Shit-Faced With the Joe Biden Koozie

Cold refreshment is a big fucking deal.​Sick of the never-ending coverage en route to the 2012 presidential election? Wish you could just drink yourself to sleep and wake up when it's all over? The Obama 2012 campaign store is here to help. Their online shop is selling a Joe Biden beer koozie ... More >>

Dark Days: A Decade Later, Back Down Into the Subway Tunnels

New Yorkers Celebrate Passage of Gay Marriage Bill; Did You Know Another Bill Was Passed Yesterday?

via TPM Crowds gather outside the Stonewall Inn.​We're proud to be New Yorkers today after the state senate passed same-sex marriage last night! And so are the crowds who flooded the West Village to celebrate; revelers gathered outside the Stonewall Inn last night to mark the historic moment. Talk ... More >>

Hopstop: Now Helping You Count Calories, Ride Your Bike

​Hooray for Hopstop, the go-to spot for finding out how to get to wherever you want to go in the New York City area, and elsewhere, too. Just the other day we were calculating how to get to a wedding in Brooklyn (thank you, God, for weddings in Brooklyn) and all of a sudden, after which trains ... More >>

Charles Schumer Proposes No-Ride List for Trains

​It's been a busy couple days in train news, what with the PATH and Second Avenue subway tunnel breaches, plus that mishap on the PATH that injured 30. There's also a new call from Senator Charles Schumer to increase rail security, which comes after reports that Osama Bin Laden may have been p ... More >>

New York Post's 'Unluckiest Traveler' Seems Pretty Damn Lucky, Actually

Really?​The New York Post has found a man, 24-year-old Jason Gordon, whom they dub "the unluckiest traveler" in the entire world. This is based on several pieces of evidence, including: 1) He was once on a 16-hour flight from Los Angeles to New York that included a seven-hour stint on the tarm ... More >>

Our 10 Best and Cheapest Penn Station Eats

​Looking very much like a prison entrance, the door to Penn Station beckons. Let's face it, Penn Station is never going to be a foodie destination. The hallways are too thronged, the smells too rancid, the eateries too narrow, with tables too filthy. Yet in this great dung heap of a railway ... More >>

Central Park Gets 9 Inches of Snow; There's Snow on the Ground in 49 of 50 States

via @DevonGrandy/Twitpic​The snow count is in. We got 9.1 inches last night (according to numbers in Central Park, via NY1). That does not a blizzard make, but it's pretty, for the moment! No major public transport delays, though the MTA has issued a Winter Weather Service Advisory. In related ... More >>

The Blizzard of 2010: We'll Be Telling the Grandkids About This One!

Tompkins Square Park, through the snow.​Is there a name for this thing yet? Snowmaggedon? Thundersnow? Blizza-palooza? That day people were trapped outside of New York City, while those (okay, one or two) inside it actually skied to work? And the rest of us hunkered down and tried not to have ... More >>

Barbara Fairchild's Website Will 'Probably' Launch Next Month

Barbara Fairchild​Barbara Fairchild may have ceded Bon Appétit's reigns to Adam Rapoport, but she's got still plenty to occupy her appetites. In an interview with LA Weekly's Squid Ink blog, the former ed-in-chief discusses the food site she's planning to launch "probably right after th ... More >>

David Paterson and New Jersey Transit: Shut Up, New York!

​Governor Paterson has delivered a week-long "time-out" to people jabbering and fighting about the proposed downtown Islamic Center. Hey, perhaps it's a good time for a break from our religious intolerance and real estate bitchiness, at least for a little while.

Summer Guide: Hit the Arts Road!

Weekend trips to cultured places

L Train Twitter Tales, Part 2: That "Shit Don't Show In My Drug Test"

Actual Twitter background of Tweeter #8 When it comes to L Train service, Williamsburg's skinny-jean choked underground thoroughfare, you never know what sort of experience you'll encounter--homeless dude Aladdin sing-a-longs (saw it yesterday), public drunkenness across the spectrum, and, most reli ... More >>

Copenhagen's Noma Named Best Restaurant in the World; Amtrak Tests Beef-Powered Train

​Noma in Copenhagen finally topped El Bulli as the best restaurant in the world at the S. Pellegrino World's 50 Best Restaurants reception, held last night in London. Daniel jumped 33 spots to no. 8, Per Se dropped four spots to no. 10, and Le Bernardin stayed at a comfortable no. 15. [Bloombe ... More >>

Fred Harvey, the British Businessman Who Tamed America's West, Turns Out to Be a Fine Read, Too

​We're heading up to Columbia U tonight to hear from professor Stephen Fried as he offers a public talk about his newest book, Appetite for America: How Visionary Businessman Fred Harvey Built a Railroad Hospitality Empire That Civilized the Wild West. We've hardly been able to put the thing ... More >>

Penn Station Suffers "Voltage" Problem; Trains Were Stopped, Now Delayed

​If you were expecting someone from Jersey and they were taking the train, here's why they're late: there was a power outage at Penn Station that screwed up Amtrak and New Jersey Transit service to and from the station. Some trains were reported stranded between stations, but there was enough ... More >>

Straphangers Award "Pokeys" for Slowest Buses; M42, B63 Big Winners

The NYPIRG Straphangers Campaign and Transportation Alternatives have announced their eighth annual Pokey Awards for the city's slowest buses, and the surprise winner is the M42 that lumbers between the Javits Center and First Avenue on 42nd Street. By the sponsors' calculations, the M42 achieves a ... More >>

Jennifer Gilson and Steve Rosenthal, Owners of the Living Room, Pick Best NYC's Best Dive Bar, Psycho Street Clown

This week is the Voice's Best of NYC issue, our annual opportunity to bestow arbitrary awards like Best Rock Club and Best '90s Musical Hero Holding Out Scruffily in Brooklyn. In turn, we asked a few of our favorite New Yorkers to name their favorite local things. ​ Jennifer Gilson and Stev ... More >>

Moynihan Station back on track

​ Governor Paterson and Senator Schumer announced today that hold-out Amtrak is on board with plans to repurpose the Farley Post Office Building (across from Madison Square Garden and the current location of Penn Station) into Moynihan Station. Penn Station currently handles ~25% of Amtrak's ... More >>

Bones' Beat: Five Art World Happenings to Watch For in the New Year

Shoe-Threat Guy Gets Sent Home From Work; "The Man" Suspected

I Turn My Camera On

New rules, but still no truce between filmmakers and the mayor's office

South Bronx Man Dreams of the Presidency

Miami Vices

Get On the Bus—and the Train and the Carpool

Joining the anti-war surge on Washington? Plot your itinerary now.

Any Profit in a Storm

Stormy weather allows big oil to practice a crude sort of blackmail

A Storm of GOP Proposals

Rita in Washington? Pass the tax cuts, please

Her Crowning Glory

Urban shaman Donna Henes makes royal mischief

Holy Ghosts

Welcome to a Twilight Zone of campfire and Catholic thrills

NY Mirror

Close-Up on the Fashion District

Getting Ready for the Invasion

The U.S. Capitol Hunkers Down for Retaliatory Terrorist Action

A Smaller Stick

Terrorism Investigators Risk Scaring Off Their Best Helpers

Nation

Nation

Nation

The Next Attack?

Endurance Training

Dotcom Hither

Silicon Alley Looks to Expand in Bloods' Long Island City

Hell-Raising in Philly

An Activist’s Guide to Protests Outside the Republican Convention

Blood Sport

Race Teams Face Off At the Diallo Trial

Low Anxiety

Fear of the Subway Derails Thousands

Ticket to Tomorrow

Now Arriving at Penn Station, an Era of High-Tech Building