Penn Station

Quantifying the Taxi Strike's Effect

Bring Back the New Yorker-Penn Station Tunnel!

Have a Happy Flight-Delayed Christmas

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 >>

New Fast Train Will Take You to Atlantic City, Penury

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 >>

Little engines that think they can

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 >>

Did Kate Moss Stash Her Stuff in a Balenciaga Bag?

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 >>

Humpless

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

Welcome to the Dollhouse

The Big Allure of Tiny Photography

Ticket to Tomorrow

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

Hell-Raising in Philly

An Activist’s Guide to Protests Outside the Republican Convention

Close-up on Hunts Point

An Activist’s Guide to Protests Outside the Republican Convention

Empire of Signs

Investigating Imperialism With Julian LaVerdiere

Student Pizza Primer

23 Incredible Pizzas! 21 Famous Colleges! Thin Crusts! Fat Crusts!

Close-Up on the Fashion District

23 Incredible Pizzas! 21 Famous Colleges! Thin Crusts! Fat Crusts!

Close-Up on Newark

23 Incredible Pizzas! 21 Famous Colleges! Thin Crusts! Fat Crusts!

The Ghosts of Penn Station

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

Vintage Wars

Dueling old-clothes shows in Manhattan this weekend

Brew Ho Ho

Sud-slinging santas toast the season

Trash and Vaudeville

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

1963

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

Vale of Cashmere

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

Top Shelf 2005

Our 25 favorite books of the year—from teen sex diseases and Aztec slaughterhouses to Kiss riffs and juvenile tambourinists

Social Engineering

All aboard at Grand Central with headless models and StoryCorps

Atlantic City: The Next 'Next Big Thing'

Trawling for future trends in both nightlife destinations and cheeky rap collectives

Close-Up on Newark, New Jersey

Trawling for future trends in both nightlife destinations and cheeky rap collectives

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

FIERCE RIVALRY

Seton Hall battles with Notre Dame

Choptank's Maryland

A new restaurant tries to whisk you away to Baltimore

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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:

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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.

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 >>

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 >>

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

​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 >>

Cabbies Are the Worst Drivers in the City, Says Poll. Here Are Our 7 Worst Cab Rides.

​According to a recent NY1-Marist poll, cab drivers are considered the worst drivers in the city, madcap hell-on-wheels vehicle operators who "don't care if they hit anything." Maybe they even like it! 80 percent of city residents polled say this, which means...it must be at least anecdotally ... More >>

Dish No. 5: Shio Ramen at Tabata

Lauren ShockeyNoodley goodness​Save for the Best Things to Eat in Penn Station, not a lot of tasty grub can be found in the thirties 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 so ... 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 >>

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

Royahram / FlickrAnd we're done!​2011 was a big year for listicles here at Fork in the Road. Our weekly Friday "10 Best" posts nabbed eight of the ten 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 f ... More >>