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May 5, 2012
Medical Marijuana Comes to Connecticut
For our Northeastern neighbor, it's a shame 4/20 was two weeks ago. This morning, after 10 hours of debate, the Connecticut Senate voted 21 to 13 on a bill that will legalize marijuana for medical usage. After already being cleared in the House, the "green" legislation heads to the desk of Gove ... More >>
Blogs
January 24, 2012
Rapping Train Conductor Plays His Heart Out on the Harmonica
Who said train conductors were mean, boring stickler-ish types shushing you in the quiet car, punching your tickets through a thinly disguised veneer of hatred, and kicking you off the train after you pee drunkenly in the vestibule? Train conductors are fun, too! Some of them are even sort of comedi ... More >>
Dining
November 23, 2011
Holiday Guide: Heat-Seeking Victuals
A five-borough tour of winter warm-up meals
Blogs
October 10, 2011
How to Use Your iPhone in Westchester
Here is a fellow casually talking on his old-world landline, which is attached to his new-world iPhone. Remember landlines, how good they felt next to your ear, how solid and sturdy and there? We were so young and innocent then! Don't you want to relive those days? This guy does.
Blogs
August 15, 2011
Smoking On Outdoor Train Platforms Now Banned
Governor Cuomo signed a bill today that will ban smoking on outdoor train platforms operated by the MTA, including the Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North. He said, "It is important that commuters are not unwillingly subject to the dangers of second-hand smoke while waiting on train platforms." ... More >>
Blogs
August 5, 2011
The Wassaic Project is Happening This Weekend
The Wassaic Project, the third annual art festival that fills a meadow with campers, turns a barn into a movie theater, and stuffs and a seven story silo with art, is happening this weekend. We went last year, and had about as much fun as you can have at a camping/art festival this side of Bl ... More >>
Blogs
June 27, 2011
Irate iPhone Asshole Goes on Tirade Against Bus Driver [NSFW]
Well, every MTA rider has, at one point or another, been too close to a temper tantrum, but now thanks to the internet, we can all experience the unpleasantness together from the comfort of our own computers. Whereas the haughty NYU girl on Metro-North was laughably arrogant but unthreateningly angr ... More >>
Blogs
June 17, 2011
Comments of the Week: Village Voice T-Shirt Giveaway, Round Two!
And we're back. Once again we're offering a snazzy Village Voice t-shirt to some of our notable commenters. This week, we even had a local celebrity weigh in. If your comment was picked, email web editor Francesca Stabile to claim your prize.
Blogs
June 16, 2011
Metro-North Conductor Screeched At By 'Well-Educated' Woman
The award for most insufferable person of the week goes (not without a challenge) to the woman yelling at her Metro-North conductor, who calmly asked the customer to "keep it down and stop using profanity or to take it to the vestibule," according to the YouTube description. "Do you know what school ... More >>
Blogs
April 11, 2011
One Metro-North Train Car Has Secret Wi-Fi
There is, apparently, one train car on the New Haven line of Metro-North that has a secret. A secret called "Wi-Fi." Via Second Avenue Sagas, the MTA is keeping mum about which car it is because service is "not ready for prime time." Of course, it would be easy enough for a person to identify ... More >>
Blogs
February 22, 2011
The MTA Can Text...Sort of
If you're a Metro-North commuter, the MTA will now text you train schedules and other important information as to the status of your ride. Well, not the MTA, exactly: A technology company named CooCoo is providing the service updates, which are already available for Long Island Rail Road cust ... More >>
Blogs
January 12, 2011
Central Park Gets 9 Inches of Snow; There's Snow on the Ground in 49 of 50 States
via @DevonGrandy/TwitpicThe 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 >>
Blogs
December 27, 2010
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 >>
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December 27, 2010
Snow Blows MTA's Timing on New Subway House Ads
Late December probably wasn't the best time to roll out those new MTA house ads. Cars on this afternoon's much delayed A trains carried a new credo that made you stop and ponder a bit: "A city is only as good as its transit system," reads one sprawling card, part of the new "Improving, Non-st ... More >>
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September 28, 2010
Skyy Vodka's New Ad Features Woman-on-Bottle Sex; $80 British Navy Rum Now Available in NYC
Skyy vodka is sexing up its image with a new ad that features a woman in red shiny tights and spike heels appearing to have sex with a giant Skyy vodka bottle. [USA Today] White Dog is all the rage these days, but people aren't just drinking it. They're also making it at home, despite the fa ... More >>
Blogs
September 27, 2010
What You Drink, When You're Commuting
The New York Times has offered up a rather fascinating exploration of what commuters drink while traveling on New York's various booze-serving transport options. And while we can only assume these stats on the $9 million bar car industry pertain to the commute home and not to work, we won't j ... More >>
Blogs
September 20, 2010
Breaking: Track Fire on Metro North (With Pictures!)
Here's how New Yorkers are starting their week: with a huge fire on Metro North at Harlem River Drive and Park Avenue. Via the Wall Street Journal: "Metro-North identified it as the 138th Street lift bridge on the Harlem River. Train service was suspended at 11:45 a.m." Someone must've had an ... More >>
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September 20, 2010
Your "Wait, What?" of the Day: NY1 Can't See Their Heads in Front of Their Own Faces
Blockquotes! Those magical parts of blog posts bloggers use to fill space with information they're too laze to re-purpose themselves: they happen. And sometimes, when bloggers like this one throw a paragraph in blockquotes, they're too blithe to notice the intensely "WTF" part of them they mi ... More >>
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September 14, 2010
MetroNorth and the LIRR Have Spent $300,000 Repairing People's Pants
Howard Stevens leans on the same type of armrest that snagged his pocket a few months ago.In 2002, the LIRR installed new train cars. Two years later, MetroNorth installed the same M-7 cars on the Hudson and Harlem lines. Everyone likes a shiny new train car, except...these "new" trains have ... More >>
Blogs
July 28, 2010
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 >>
Music
June 15, 2010
Styles P Wrote a Novel
The hard-boiled NYC rapper has found a new artistic medium for his badassness
Blogs
May 6, 2010
The Many Thankful Screw-ups of Broadway Bomber Faisal Shahzad
There are a slew of new details today on klutzy failed car-bomber Faisal Shahzad's many missteps. Each one is deserving of a separate prayer of thanks that our latest attacker may have held an MBA, but apparently fell well short of the threshold for a Boy Scout preparedness badge. First the ... More >>
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April 28, 2010
Coming Soon: Cell Service Literally Everywhere ... Starting With Grand Central
If your dream of the future involves constant wireless connectivity and the ability to Tweet or text or update your Facebook status from, like, anywhere, your dream is nigh. The MTA has approved a licensing agreement to construct "a state-of-the-art, multi-carrier wireless commercial network" ... More >>
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April 22, 2010
Last Call for Bar Cars on Metro-North; Bill Gates Launches a Food Fund
The bar car on the Metro-North may be going the way of the in-flight meal. A new fleet of cars will soon replace the 1970s-era models, but budget constraints may force the railroad to forgo a fresh set of bar cars. [NY Times] Kobe beef lovers, beware: Japan has suspended beef exports for thr ... More >>
Blogs
April 21, 2010
Morning Links: Apple Making Serious Bank, Doorman Strike Averted, Shepard Fairey Begins
Here's what's on our minds (and in the news) this morning: • Apple posts its best non-holiday quarter in history. The company said net income in the quarter that ended March 31 rose 90 percent, to $3.07 billion. (Which is not quite what Goldman Sachs made, but getting on up there.) • Ai ... More >>
Blogs
March 13, 2010
MTA Wants High-Speed Wireless Internet on Metro-North and LIRR Trains
According to the Post, the Metropolitan Transit Authority is asking for bids from service providers to make high-speed wireless internet available to riders on Metro-North and LIRR commuter trains serving Westchester, Connecticut and Long Island. The final plan may or may not be free to non- ... More >>
Blogs
December 20, 2009
More about the snow
Queens in the snowAccording to the National Weather Service, the snow is over (until Christmas, when we can expect rain, snow and sleet). After this, it's just going to blow around. Their last official accumulation numbers were 6" at LaGuardia, 11.1" at Kennedy, and 9.1" in Central Park as of ... More >>
Blogs
November 2, 2009
The City Moves Forward With Plans for East Harlem Kitchen Incubator
The city has put together some innovative plans to help people grapple with the recession in recent months -and at least one of them will please foodies all over the city. By the year's end, the city's Economic Development Corporation says it will outfit a 4,000 square-foot commercial kitchen in Eas ... More >>
Blogs
August 20, 2009
iPhone App-Maker Publishes Train Schedules; MTA Demands a Cut
Plucky commuter Chris Schoenfeld made an iPhone app called Station Stops that tells you when Metro North trains are scheduled to arrive and depart. He enters and updates the info manually from Metro North's timetables, which we thought was public information. But he says MTA, which runs Metro ... More >>
Blogs
March 21, 2009
Weekend Special -- Street Food
All hail the lonely cotton-candy vendor, his wares umbrella'ed above him in pastel, particolored splendor. A harbinger of spring, he waits for the first children to arrive in the park across the street in Richmond Hill, Queens (click to enlarge). At 113th Street and Park Avenue in Ma ... More >>
Blogs
January 1, 2009
Happy New Year
Peter McManus', Chelsea, shortly after midnight We'd been warned that Times Square could be hit with a "Mumbai-style attack" on New Year's Eve, so only about a million people showed up. (The celebration in Aspen, Colorado didn't fare so well, but they sure had fun in New Orleans.) On TV Kathy G ... More >>
Blogs
December 9, 2008
Yanks, Mets Demanding Even More Cash Than Rod Blagojevich
Peter McManus', Chelsea, shortly after midnight We'd been warned that Times Square could be hit with a "Mumbai-style attack" on New Year's Eve, so only about a million people showed up. (The celebration in Aspen, Colorado didn't fare so well, but they sure had fun in New Orleans.) On TV Kathy G ... More >>
Blogs
October 29, 2008
Pinsky Says New Yankee Stadium "A Home Run"; We Cry Foul
Peter McManus', Chelsea, shortly after midnight We'd been warned that Times Square could be hit with a "Mumbai-style attack" on New Year's Eve, so only about a million people showed up. (The celebration in Aspen, Colorado didn't fare so well, but they sure had fun in New Orleans.) On TV Kathy G ... More >>
Blogs
October 2, 2008
More Advertising for Your Morning Commute
Peter McManus', Chelsea, shortly after midnight We'd been warned that Times Square could be hit with a "Mumbai-style attack" on New Year's Eve, so only about a million people showed up. (The celebration in Aspen, Colorado didn't fare so well, but they sure had fun in New Orleans.) On TV Kathy G ... More >>
Blogs
March 20, 2008
How Much Is That Stadium In The Window?
Peter McManus', Chelsea, shortly after midnight We'd been warned that Times Square could be hit with a "Mumbai-style attack" on New Year's Eve, so only about a million people showed up. (The celebration in Aspen, Colorado didn't fare so well, but they sure had fun in New Orleans.) On TV Kathy G ... More >>
News
November 20, 2007
Elevator Diplomacy
Yankee Stadium gets a walkway, a politician gets a big donation, and you get a fat bill
Blogs
November 21, 2006
Yankees Build Giant Dustbowl in Bronx
Yankee Stadium gets a walkway, a politician gets a big donation, and you get a fat bill
Blogs
November 6, 2006
An Election Surprise ... in New York?!
Yankee Stadium gets a walkway, a politician gets a big donation, and you get a fat bill
Film
August 1, 2006
'Satellite'
Yankee Stadium gets a walkway, a politician gets a big donation, and you get a fat bill
Blogs
May 1, 2006
May Day: Yes, They Could (Almost)
Yankee Stadium gets a walkway, a politician gets a big donation, and you get a fat bill
Blogs
April 6, 2006
Theeeeeeeeeeee Yankees Win!
Yankee Stadium gets a walkway, a politician gets a big donation, and you get a fat bill
Blogs
December 21, 2005
Bike the Strike: Tips, Pools, Etc.
Yankee Stadium gets a walkway, a politician gets a big donation, and you get a fat bill
Blogs
December 21, 2005
What If You Threw a Contingency Plan but. . .
Yankee Stadium gets a walkway, a politician gets a big donation, and you get a fat bill
Blogs
December 20, 2005
Cozy Commuting on the Metro North
Yankee Stadium gets a walkway, a politician gets a big donation, and you get a fat bill
Blogs
December 20, 2005
MTA Strike: Long Treks and ($10) Dollar Vans
Yankee Stadium gets a walkway, a politician gets a big donation, and you get a fat bill
News
August 17, 2004
Sound Check
On the streets and in courtrooms, convention preliminaries are under way
NYC Life
February 18, 2003
One-Bedroom Apartment in Five-Story Building
On the streets and in courtrooms, convention preliminaries are under way
NYC Life
June 25, 2002
Close-Up on East Harlem
On the streets and in courtrooms, convention preliminaries are under way
News
March 14, 2000
Mind Body Spirit: Walk on the Mild Side
Enjoy the outdoors, preserve trails, visit historic sites, and relax!
News
May 18, 1999
Train Runs Over Rudy
Mayor Stands Up For City, Gets Clobbered By Runaway Commuter Tax Cut
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