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Penn Station

  • Blogs

    April 10, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2012

    The MTA's Evening Shutdown of 4, 5, and 6 Trains For Track Repair Starts Monday

    Back in November, it was announced that the MTA would implement a new measure, which they're calling "FASTTRACK," in order to repair lines that are constantly running and, it seems, constantly in need of fixing in some way or another (some of them have been around a long time, you know!). They said ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 19, 2011

    Live: Swedish House Mafia Reign Supreme At Madison Square Garden

    Swedish House Mafia w/A-Trak, Jacques Lu Cont Madison Square Garden Friday, December 18 Better than: Sitting around and becoming convinced audio of a microwave breaking is actually a leaked Daft Punk track. Swedish House Mafia sold out Madison Square Garden in nine minutes for Friday night's mam ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 14, 2011

    MTA to Start Doing Weeknight Subway Line Repair Closures

    ​The latest coolest thing the MTA is doing: closing the subway on weeknights. According to NY1, the MTA has plans to close some lines for repairs for up to five consecutive weeknights from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. This is a shift from the MTA's usual M.O., which is to shut down lines on the weekend ( ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2011

    Dr. Oz Giving Away Free Cab Rides From 4 to 6 Today

    ​Stations have resisted putting anything that they want to do well up against The Oprah Winfrey Show because, well -- Oprah always wins. But since Oprah's last show yesterday, networks are scrambling to hold the attention of one of the largest audiences in the country. Dr. Oz, a friend of Opra ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2011

    What's at the MTA's Lost and Found? $89,000 in Unclaimed Cash, to Start

    ​A few months ago, we took a trip to deep beneath the Penn Station subway stop to a place called the MTA's Lost Property Unit. The LPU -- a mass transit no man's land where New Yorkers' umbrellas, wallets, phones, and, yes, plenty of cash go to live out their days -- is like a dig site for the urb ... More >>

  • News

    October 20, 2010

    Best Of NYC: We're the Greatest Sports City in the World

    And proud of it

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2010

    New Brooklyn-D.C. Bus Will Completely Skip Manhattan

    ​In what Brooklyn365 calls a "TRUE win for democracy," the new Brooklyn-to-D.C. (or vice versa) bus run by the Knowit Express has decided to bypass bothering with Manhattan entirely and just go directly between Brooklyn (Park Slope, to be exact) and U Street in Washington D.C. Which means at l ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2010

    Vietnam 1969: The Moratorium Movement!

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. October 9, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 52 Plans Set For Viet Moratorium Plans were revealed Friday for massive New York City participation in the nationwide Vietnam Moratorium on October 15 which will seek to "end business as usual" on that da ... 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

    February 14, 2010

    Wigged Robber Robert Krieg Caught, Charged With 7 Bank Robberies

    ​The police wanted to talk to Robert Krieg about robbing a Manhattan bank wearing a blonde wig on Thursday. They caught up with him near Penn Station yesterday at around 9:40 am. By that time, they also wanted to talk to him about the two banks he allegedly already robbed that morning. Capta ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 20, 2009

    Suspicious Package at Penn Station; False Alarm

    ​ Twitpic via commutershow. Suspicious package (blue dot above) at Penn Station. Seventh Avenue passageway shut down, east side of station closed. Dogs brought in. False alarm. Everyone back to commuting. TGIF!

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2009

    Incredibly Cheap Eats: Meat Combinations at Newark's Ferry St. Barbecue

    ​Ribs and chicken struggle to escape the french fry quicksand. Love barbecue but hate paying top dollar? Jump on the PATH train, which swoops over the picturesque Meadowlands, and take a quick trip to Newark's Ironbound neighborhood, just a few blocks from the terminus of the PATH at Newark's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 31, 2009

    The Top 10 Records Sold Last Week at Rock and Soul in Midtown

    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. Rock and Soul start ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 2, 2009

    A Cop For Just Minutes, Officer Firpo Gets His Man

    Around 1:15 p.m. today, almost immediately after graduating from the Police Academy with his fellow cadets at the WaMu Theatre, new Police Officer Dariel Firpo (pictured) apprehended a robbery suspect. NYPD says Jeffrey Grant, 47, snatched an old man's wallet over by Penn Station, pushed the old man ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2009

    Local Actor Saves Man on Subway Tracks, Does Reading

    Chad Lindsey is a Bat, meaning he is among the young company of the Flea Theatre, where he plays in the Elizabeth Swados light opera Kaspar Hauser: a foundling's opera. Bats are expected to do stage-crew work as well, and in the show, the New York Times tells us, Lindsey is called upon to "repeat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2009

    New Moynihan Train Station Getting Closer

    Moynihan Station projection from the Municipal Art Society. Remember that Moynihan Station people have been trying for years to put at the site of the Farley Post Office at 34th Street? The project that's supposed to restore some of the glory eradicated when the old, beautiful Penn Station was des ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 23, 2009

    Paterson Presents Senator Gillibrand

    Your new Senator with Al D'Amato (l.) "So it's August the 14th, 2003," says Governor Paterson, "and I am going to meet a lawyer who is going to be meeting me in an office building in Manhatan." (He wanted her not to run for Congress in '04, as she had planned, but the state senate.) "All the light ... More >>

  • Art

    March 20, 2007

    That's Miss Shakespeare to You

    A new play wants to convince you that the Bard was black, Jewish, and female

  • NYC Life

    March 20, 2007

    The Gropes of Wrath

    The NYPD loves touching black men—writer Nicholas Powers on being a stop-and-frisk virgin

  • News

    January 16, 2007

    Get On the Bus—and the Train and the Carpool

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

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2006

    A Leaky Tank Near You?

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

  • NYC Life

    December 20, 2005

    WWRTD: Or, What Would Roger Toussaint Do?

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

  • Specials

    October 18, 2005

    1993

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

  • NYC Life

    August 23, 2005

    Cyber-Pioneers Fight for Tenant's Rights and Political Reform

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

  • NYC Life

    August 9, 2005

    Earmuffs in August: Department Stores on the Brink

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

  • News

    January 25, 2005

    Giving and Getting

    Bloomberg and Doctoroff: Reshaping the city's skyline for the Olympics

  • News

    January 4, 2005

    The Labor Fixer

    An aging but innovative racketeer who ran three powerful unions

  • Theater

    January 4, 2005

    Offending The Audience

    Lithuanian auteur Kama Ginkas, invoking Dostoyevsky, implicates us in a collective guilt

  • News

    August 17, 2004

    Coming to a Convention Near You: Scary Anarchist II

    New York papers way, way lose their cool over protest of the Republican confab

  • NYC Life

    April 13, 2004

    Close-Up on Times Square

    New York papers way, way lose their cool over protest of the Republican confab

  • Film

    November 11, 2003

    Design for Living

    From Philly to Dhaka, a son's pilgrimage sheds light on a visionary architect's personality

  • NYC Life

    July 8, 2003

    Close-Up on Elizabeth, New Jersey

    From Philly to Dhaka, a son's pilgrimage sheds light on a visionary architect's personality

  • News

    May 27, 2003

    The Confusing War on Terror

    D.C. Power Lines Start Glowing Orange

  • NYC Life

    May 13, 2003

    Dog Day Afternoons

    Unleashing the Newest Breeds of Frankfurters

  • NYC Life

    May 13, 2003

    Listings

    Unleashing the Newest Breeds of Frankfurters

  • NYC Life

    March 4, 2003

    Off the Wall

    An Extreme Painter Lays It Out

  • NYC Life

    May 28, 2002

    Classical/Opera

    An Extreme Painter Lays It Out

  • News

    November 6, 2001

    Nation

    An Extreme Painter Lays It Out

  • Columns

    May 29, 2001

    NY Mirror

    An Extreme Painter Lays It Out

  • News

    August 8, 2000

    Dotcom Hither

    Silicon Alley Looks to Expand in Bloods' Long Island City

  • News

    April 25, 2000

    Hard Road to Glory

    The Minefields That Lurk Between the Knicks and a Conference Title

  • News

    March 21, 2000

    Shake the Trees

    After the Latest Police Killing of Another Unarmed Black Man, The Feds Need Little Convincing to Intervene in New York

  • Long Island Voice

    December 28, 1999

    Queens For A Day

    After the Latest Police Killing of Another Unarmed Black Man, The Feds Need Little Convincing to Intervene in New York

  • Art

    May 4, 1999

    Our Century, Ourselves

    After the Latest Police Killing of Another Unarmed Black Man, The Feds Need Little Convincing to Intervene in New York

  • News

    March 9, 1999

    Monitor Madness!

    Flashing, Pulsing Screens Invade New York

  • News

    March 2, 1999

    There Goes The Neighborhood

    The Nets may be set to pave over a Newark community. Will the Yankees do the same in the Bronx?

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