Long Island Rail Road Company

Secretariat's Magic Makes Hardened Horse Players Weep

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. June 14, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 24 A horse for all seasons by Joe Flaherty A group of us, accompanied by the baggage of New York blase, gathered early at Penn Station Saturday for an odyssey to Belmont Park. The onus lay with the horse ... More >>

Williamsburg Hipster Trailer Park Shut Down

​For the second time, the Meserole Street warehouse that's home to an "artist community/trailer park called "The Nut Factory," has been shuttered by city inspectors, though residents still claim they're in the clear. "I don't know what the Fire Department considers unsafe now," one of the resi ... More >>

Bridge and Tunnel Traps Now Competing With Hipster Traps on NYC Sidewalks

​Jeff Greenspan and Hunter Fine, the artists behind the Hipster Traps that started popping up in New York City last weekend, have moved on to a subculture (?) even easier to stereotype with signifiers: Guidos. The Bridge and Tunnel trap replaces the PBR, American Spirits and bike chain booty w ... More >>

Joseph Sarno, the Chekhov of Softcore

The $104 MetroCard Is Here; Let the Bloodletting Commence

​Well, it happened. We knew it would, but now it's a done deal. The MTA has voted 12 to 2 to approve fare increases for subways, buses, and the commuter rail. Insanely, this marks a 65 percent increase over the last 12 years. The highest inflation rate over the last 10 years, in comparison, ha ... More >>

Will Hurricane Earl "Smoosh" with Jersey Shore?

Hurricane "Snooks."​Labor Day weekend isn't looking to be the last-hurray-of-summer-sunshine affair its supposed to be, with Hurricane Earl ready to very literally rain on the plans of anyone about to have one last blowout before calling the summer off. And it looks like the Jersey Shore -- wh ... More >>

LIRR Service Schedule Ruh Roh: An Easy Guide to Messy Monday's Rail Problems (Or "Good Luck, Suckers!")

The Long Island Railroad has been all kinds of messed up today: a switch problem and cable fire resulted in suspended service that now has only 60% of the trains that typically run out of Penn Station during Rush Hour moving commuters home tonight. Here's what you should know:

M. Wells's Hugue Dufour, Part Deux: Food Eroticism, Being Inspired by Dog Food & Why You Can Never Have Too Much Foie Gras

Tobie Marier-RobitailleHugue Dufour​Yesterday, we talked to Hugue Dufour, chef-owner of M. Wells in Long Island City, about what makes his diner so special and when we can expect to be able to eat dinner (and drink wine) there. Today, he talks food, sex, and why New York needs more foie gras. ... More >>

Your Unlimited Metrocard Is Going to Cost You $130 (Or More)

This is suddenly a very expensive way to travel.​We knew it would happen, and it did: Subway fares are going up early next year, according to a plan introduced today by the MTA. One proposal might mean your actually unlimited (a/k/a, no caps on number of rides per month, a/k/a, unlimited) metr ... More >>

The LIRR's New "Gap Rap" Disappointing Compared to Debut Swine Flu Effort

​Because rapping is by far the best way to communicate a public service message, the Long Island Railroad -- which has had a number of people sustain injuries and/or die by falling into the gap between the platform and train despite signs and announcements warning them otherwise -- has a new r ... More >>

Charmingly Pragmatic Prince Seeks Louboutin-Losing Cinderella (Q&A)

Moshe Billet​Moshe Billet found a black leather peep-toe Christian Louboutin pump at 96th Street and Broadway on June 23. Knowing Louboutins are expensive ($600-$800) and that someone was probably upset to have lost it, he posted an ad on Craigslist and messages on Facebook and Twitter, as wel ... More >>

John Lennon and Yoko Ono Nudity Seriously Freaking People Out

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 23, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 15 Scenes by Howard Smith VALERIE [SOLANAS] was back in court last Friday. This time to find out whether the court psychiatric clinic report agreed with Mattawan State Hospital's verdict when it release ... More >>

Getting from Penn Station to Long Beach in Less Than Two Minutes? Priceless (Video)

For those of you work-from-homers who every so often wax nostalgic of your old commute (or for those of you who, like us, just enjoy time elapsed things), here's a rather cool MTA video of the Long Island Railroad journey from Penn Station to Long Beach -- which normally takes 54 minutes -- in a min ... More >>

Morning Links: Science vs. CEO in the BP Oil Spill; Actors Prepare to Mourn Law & Order; Woe to the Mets

​• BP (and dozens of other oil companies) were allowed to drill in the Gulf without getting required federal permits, "despite strong warnings from that agency about the impact the drilling was likely to have." Also, scientists are saying the size of the spill has been underestimated, while ... More >>

New York Happy Hours, All Around the Clock

20 Happy Hours for every legal drinking hour in town!

Mardi Gras in New York: Making the Best of It

​It's Fat Tuesday, and while things are swinging in New Orleans, our streets are filled with snow and the local pickings are slim. The Lower Eastside Girls Club is having a Benefit Masquerade Ball; the Rodeo Bar holds its ever-lively Mardi Gras party, and Brooklyn's Union Hall is bringing some ... More >>

Weekend Special: Escape from Thanksgiving

​A few will admire me, but more will detest my behavior, either because they actually love the holiday, or are too chickenshit to do what I did. This year, after decades of suffering dry-breasted turkeys, inane "catch-up" conversations with people I barely know, and hours of waiting for total ... More >>

Free WiFi in Times Square for One Year

​Yahoo, in cooperation with the Times Square Alliance, today commences free WiFi in Times Square, which will be in place for a year. We haven't sampled it yet, and remember having trouble grabbing a signal when CBS tried it in a big block of midtown in 2007, but Bryant Park's been successfully ... More >>

Lousy Al Qaeda Operative is From Long Island

We understand why the local papers want to make a big deal of Bryant Neal Vinas of Patchogue, New York, whose federal indictment on charges of helping Al Qaeda was made public today -- you know, hometown boy makes good and all that. But it doesn't seem as if Vinas accomplished much as a traitor. Th ... More >>

We Are All Mary Jo Buttafuoco!

Rob Roth Here's a candid shot of me reading Mary Jo Buttafuoco's new book, Getting It Through My Thick Skull, which I devoured like sour candy! I even adored the subtitle, "Why I Stayed, What I Learned, and What Millions of People Involved with Sociopaths Need To Know."

Atlantic Yards Combatants Finally Forced To Sit Through State Senate Hearing

The footprint. Image via Atlantic Yards or Atlantic Lots. Yesterday was the long-awaited — like, six years long — first state legislative hearing on Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Yards project, with State Senator Bill Perkins convening his Corporations, Authorities, and Commissions Committee ... More >>

Gov Sets High Noon for Senate Pick

Apparently David Paterson has now really, finally, absolutely made up his mind about his senate pick. The governor's press office just released his schedule for tomorrow, which calls for a noon press conference tomorrow in Albany to announce his "U.S. Senate Appointment." Meanwhile, Long Island co ... More >>

A Sobering Plan to End Subway Alcohol Advertising

Close-Up on Flushing, Queens

The Life Aquatic

You can go in the water again!

Bike the Strike: Tips, Pools, Etc.

Strikebound

WWRTD: Or, What Would Roger Toussaint Do?

Mr. Toussaint, how will you purchase your Christmas ham?

Close-Up on Bedford-Stuyvesant

Close-Up on Jamaica

Elephants in Our Living Room

Ignorance is not an option—here's a guide to get you primed for the convention

Film

The Man Who Would Be Kings

Wannabe 'Brooklyn Nets' Owner Ratner Already Is a Man for All Subsidies

Witnessing An Underdog's Personal, Uncontrolled Fantasy

Close-up on Woodside, Queens

All in the Family

The Hissing of Summer Lawns

Dog Day Afternoons

Unleashing the Newest Breeds of Frankfurters

Close-Up on Corona

Close-up on Maspeth

Music

Close-Up On: Ridgewood, Queens

Dotcom Hither

Silicon Alley Looks to Expand in Bloods' Long Island City

Hard Road to Glory

The Minefields That Lurk Between the Knicks and a Conference Title

Queens For A Day

Music

The ultimate scalping guide to the Mets-Braves weekend

Little engines that think they can

Big kahunas need not apply

Train Runs Over Rudy

Mayor Stands Up For City, Gets Clobbered By Runaway Commuter Tax Cut

The Party's Over