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Still Hesitant On A Subway Death Solution? Check Out What Happened Over The Past Five Days

The growing controversy over subway deaths has stricken all parties involved in the transportation scene. The MTA, stuck with little cash to maneuver, has provided flat solutions, including platform doors and laser alarm systems, that are getting nowhere because, given, the agency can't get past t ... More >>

Mass Transit Update: Here's What's (And What's Not) Running in New York City Today

It's Day Three of Sandy's aftermath and, needless to say, New York is still swamped with flooding, power outages, displaced residents and, most importantly for commuters, public transportation shutdowns. We are told that it will take a few days for the City to be up and running like her old, pr ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Choptank's Maryland

A new restaurant tries to whisk you away to Baltimore

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 >>

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 >>

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!

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Atlantic City: The Next 'Next Big Thing'

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

Get On the Bus—and the Train and the Carpool

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

A Leaky Tank Near You?

WWRTD: Or, What Would Roger Toussaint Do?

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

Top Shelf 2005

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

1993

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

Earmuffs in August: Department Stores on the Brink

Giving and Getting

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

The Labor Fixer

An aging but innovative racketeer who ran three powerful unions

Offending The Audience

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

Vintage Wars

Dueling old-clothes shows in Manhattan this weekend

Coming to a Convention Near You: Scary Anarchist II

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

Close-Up on Times Square

Design for Living

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

Student Pizza Primer

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

Close-Up on Elizabeth, New Jersey

The Confusing War on Terror

D.C. Power Lines Start Glowing Orange

Dog Day Afternoons

Unleashing the Newest Breeds of Frankfurters

Listings

Off the Wall

An Extreme Painter Lays It Out

Close-up on Hunts Point

Classical/Opera

Nation

NY Mirror

Dotcom Hither

Silicon Alley Looks to Expand in Bloods' Long Island City

Hell-Raising in Philly

An Activist’s Guide to Protests Outside the Republican Convention

Queens For A Day

Our Century, Ourselves

Monitor Madness!

Flashing, Pulsing Screens Invade New York