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An Elegy for the Sublimely Crappy Chambers Street Subway Station

The soon-to-be made-over stop may be decrepit, but at least it’s honest about the state of the city

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Borough Hall Ceiling Collapse Shows How Badly Subway Is Deteriorating

The MTA and DOT have been squabbling over which stations are most in need of repair, but Borough Hall wasn’t on either agency’s priority list

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The ‘Fast Forward’ Plan to Fix the Subways Shows Just How Broken the Subways Are

Now all Andy Byford needs is billions of dollars from Cuomo, a competent government, and a rational populace

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Why Do Some Parts of New York Have So Many Subways While Others Have None?

In a word: history

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The L Train Shutdown Scenario Just Got a Whole Lot Worse

The Williamsburg Bridge can only carry three more trains an hour to Manhattan, and that’s not going to be enough to get everyone to work

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Protest Archives

Meet the Straphanger Who Talked Back to Those Damn Fiverr Ads

Nothing like a slick glamorization of the gig economy to crush your soul

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The Subways Melted Down Real Good Last Night

We sincerely hope you’re not reading this while still stuck on the G train

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Why the MTA’s ‘Subway Action Plan’ Won’t Fix Your Commute

Joe Lhota is spending $836 million on preventing “major incidents,” but it turns out they’re a relatively minor problem

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‘The Trains Are Slower Because They Slowed the Trains Down’

Internal MTA documents show everything we thought we knew about subway delays was wrong

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The Second Avenue Subway Is Already Screwed

Cutting the 72nd Street station from three tracks to two means that future New Yorkers will have to live with crappier service for all time

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