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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.

The New "On The Go!" Digital Subway Maps Are A Tourist's Dream Come True

Aside from a subway death solution, a review of the G train and a whole slew of transportation inconveniences, the MTA is also in need of a technological upgrade. Luckily, that'll be arriving shortly (the other issues mentioned... maybe not so much). Two summers ago, the agency installed several ne ... More >>

The Meatball Shop Opens a New Spot in Chelsea

Michael Chernow and Daniel Holzman will now be slinging meatballs around Chelsea at the Meatball Shop's newest outpost. The spot on Ninth Avenue has 60 seats, a new cocktail list (including jello shots), and "Underballs," a first-come first-serve bar in the basement, which serves the full menu and i ... More >>

Overcrowded Subway Stations? MTA Says 'Shut 'Em Down (Maybe)'

If you can't beat them, give up and lock everyone else out. We have all seen/felt the horrors of subway congestion. That time around 5 or 6pm, when it seems like everyone in the world wants to go exactly where you're going, and every crevice at said station is packed beyond despair. And that moment ... More >>

Fast-Food Workers Walk Out Across NYC, Demand Higher Wages

Newly formed strike-organizer Fast Food Forward is coordinating a protest with hundreds of the city's fast-food workers today, beginning with the 280 Madison Avenue McDonald's at 6:30 this morning, where employees walked out demanding better wages. More strikes are expected today at noon in Penn S ... 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 >>

Penn Station Florists See a Goldmine in Desperate Commuters

Race through Penn Station today, and you're likely to find an assortment of insanely expensive wilted roses -- and thousands of desperate men willing to pay $45 for a bouquet that normally costs $18. For Fredo, a flower vendor who has set up shop next to an Auntie Anne's in the cavernous halls of P ... More >>

See Ya, 2011: A Look Back at Our Top Posts of the Year

2011 was a big year for listicles here at Fork in the Road. Our weekly Friday "10 Best" posts nabbed eight of the 10 most popular stories of the year. Of course, we did more than name the tastiest (and occasionally worst) things to eat in New York and review fast-food items. We also highlighted the ... More >>

Vehicle on Fire Reported in Midtown, Near Macy's [Updated]

​We're hearing reports that there's a school bus or another vehicle on fire at 35th Street and 7th Avenue, near Macy's. The Corcoran Group has Tweeted a photo, saying, "A truck is on fire outside Macys on 7th Avenue, sounds of explosions nearby." The FDNY tells us there is smoke in the area a ... More >>

Dish No. 5: Shio Ramen at Tabata

Save for the Best Things to Eat in Penn Station, not a lot of tasty grub can be found in the 30s on the Far West Side. So we were excited when we chanced upon Tabata, a new ramen shop at 540 Ninth Avenue (212-290-7691). The menu offers a range of noodle soups, plus a selection of standard apps and ... More >>

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

Our 10 Best and Cheapest Grand Central Station Eats

​Dive into the comparative culinary wonderland! For two railroad terminals only two-thirds of a mile apart as the crow flies, the chow couldn't be more different. Penn Station is awash in cheesy fast-food, and the rancid smell fills your nostrils as you run for the train. By contrast, the cu ... More >>

Tomorrow: Our 10 Best and Cheapest Eats at Grand Central Station

​Will Ciao Bella's dulce de leche (caramel) crepe place in the top 10? Whether or not, it's awfully good. Last month we traipsed through Penn Station and found some decent eats in a fast-food wasteland. Tomorrow, we'll plunge into Grand Central Station, and I guarantee, the pickens will be e ... More >>

Montenapo Owners Finally Give Up

feistyfoodie.comSecond time was no charm.​Not even Gennaro Sbarro, formerly of the pizza chain that carries his family name, could save the doomed restaurant in the New York Times building. Montenapo has closed for the second time since it opened just under two years ago.

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 >>

Posts of the Week

It's Friday, blessed Friday, and time for a look back at the week that was: Our 10 best and cheapest Pennsylvania Station eats. Mile End's Noah Bernamoff talked about what's next for the restaurant, keeping Jewish food alive, and schmaltz. Vermin roaming your apartment? If you can't beat 'em, eat ... More >>

Tomorrow: Our 10 Best and Cheapest Eats at Penn Station

​Will this be your fate, doomed to eat expensive, endlessly rolling tube steaks, OR ... We've all had the experience, dashing through Pennsylvania Station to catch a train, and wanting something cheap, fast, and delicious, but despairing of finding anything that's not pricey as well as repu ... More >>

Brooklyn Man Caught After Stabbing Spree; Egyptians Celebrate Mubarak's Resignation (Weekend Links)

NYPD via NYDN​Morning! Good news: It will be a positively balmy high of 39 today. The Brooklyn man who stabbed his father to death yesterday has been caught this morning after killing his ex-girlfriend and her mother and stabbing two others. As the Post puts it, 23-year-old Maksim Gelman "resurfa ... More >>

New York City Is Full of Suspicious Packages

​Both Penn Station and the New York offices of Bank Hapoalim in midtown Manhattan were the sites today of a "suspicious package" search, though both alarms proved to be false. At gates 13 and 14 in Penn Station, cops came to check out something vaguely worrisome and eventually called things "a ... More >>

You Are Washing Your Hands Wrong, and By Wrong, We Mean Not at All

​According to a report released Monday by the American Society for Microbiology and the American Cleaning Institute, a whole lot of dirty, dirty people in the US of A don't wash their hands. Which means we're either gross or lazy. Or gross and lazy. This includes 20 percent of people at Penn S ... 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:

Design Firm Suggests Fitting New York's Stalled Building Sites with...Icebergs

Woods Bagot New York​Remember when we had to get used to seeing those damn cows all over the place in New York City? And then, today, we got the pianos, and some lost rubber ducky signs? Now design firm Woods Bagot wants to put recyclable iceberg structures in the place of all the "frozen" bui ... More >>

Tomorrow Is National Doughnut Day, and There Will Be Freeloading Opportunities in Midtown

arnold inuyaki/FlickrEven tastier when free.​Tomorrow, untold numbers of our compatriots will observe the festival of fried dough that is National Doughnut Day. In Midtown, that celebration will be commemorated at certain neighborhood Dunkin' Donuts and Krispy Kremes, where Midtown Lunch repor ... 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 >>

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 >>

FIERCE RIVALRY

Seton Hall battles with Notre Dame

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 >>

The Top 10 Records Sold Last Week at Bleecker Bob's in the West Village

In 2009, the traditional practice of exchanging physical copies of records for money is a trade that might best be called quixotic. But New Yorkers are stubborn people, and the record store is not dead. Below, the top ten records that sold in the last week at a store near you. Brian Dube​When ... 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 >>

New Fast Train Will Take You to Atlantic City, Penury

Hotel Penn Offers $11 Rooms to Geezers, Scammers

The ancient Hotel Pennsylvania has seen much better days -- its Trip Advisor reviews range from "Horrible!!!!! Disgusting!!!!" to "Not as bad as people make out" -- and allegedly faces the wrecker's ball. But it's not going down without a fight. Newyorkology reports that if you spend one night ther ... More >>

Have a Happy Flight-Delayed Christmas

Bring Back the New Yorker-Penn Station Tunnel!

Social Engineering

All aboard at Grand Central with headless models and StoryCorps

Quantifying the Taxi Strike's Effect

Humpless

Why you should go to Newark to gorge yourself on barbecued beef

Close-Up on Newark, New Jersey

Vale of Cashmere

My father carved animal soaps. Every month there was a new animal

1963

Did Kate Moss Stash Her Stuff in a Balenciaga Bag?

Trash and Vaudeville

A Guide to the New York International Fringe Festival's Recycling Program

Brew Ho Ho

Sud-slinging santas toast the season

Vintage Wars

Dueling old-clothes shows in Manhattan this weekend

The Ghosts of Penn Station

As the Republican National Convention nears, street people have started to disappear

Close-Up on Newark

Close-Up on the Fashion District

Empire of Signs

Investigating Imperialism With Julian LaVerdiere

Little engines that think they can

Ticket to Tomorrow

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

Welcome to the Dollhouse

The Big Allure of Tiny Photography