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To help pump money back into Red Hook after suffering extensive damage in Hurricane Sandy, the city is starting a free ferry service on weekends between lower Manhattan and the Red Hook’s Fairway and Ikea. The service will operate every 25 minutes on Saturdays and Sundays Read More

The Taxi and Limousine Commission will be appearing before their board on Thursday, looking to approve a series of major changes. This includes enabling owners to charge drivers more to lease cabs on a weekly basis, as well as forcing drivers to pay for some car repairs. This Read More

******************************** Taxi rides in the city just got a little more bearable. Cabs will soon be equipped with trivia on the touch screen TVs already featured in a majority of cars. Sample questions include, “Which mayor is responsible for requiring all New York City Read More

Queens native and transit worker Louis Moore was killed on the job yesterday, after slipping off a ladder and falling onto the path of a Jamaica-bound E train. Moore had worked with the MTA for eight years without incident, but he’d lost his footing just as he finished Read More

Come this Thursday, commuters in NYC will be able to call and text away in 30 additional subway stations around the city, mainly on the west side between 42nd and 96th Streets. Service at all 277 underground stations is expected to be available by the end of 2015. Read More

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A new city-commissioned report issued today finds that the extension of the 7 train into Jersey is “physically and operationally feasible,” so commuters may soon have a quick 16 minute ride from Secaucus to Grand Central Terminal. “The lack of new transit Read More

More than 1.65 billion people rode New York’s underground trains in 2012…the highest since 1946 when ridership was more than 2 billion. Even despite the fact that the whole system was shut down for a full 5 days for Hurricane Sandy, usage was up almost 1% from just Read More

A well-dressed woman in her 30′s was hit and killed by a downtown 1 train at the Canal St. station yesterday. Her body was found what police believe to be hours after the fatal blow, but apparently no one had seen or reported it. “We don’t know how she got there,” a Read More

The South Ferry subway station has reopened, but it’s not the one riders were used to pre-Sandy. It’s actually the original station, the one that opened in 1905, and only allows the first 5 cars to get out onto the platform. It will still be another 2 or 3 years Read More

A 56-year-old woman was brutally mugged at the 18th Avenue F train station in March, and it was all caught on camera. Thankfully, she got away with only a few minor injuries. Because of the tape, police have a person of interest in custody, though they won’t release further Read More

A subway worker was stuck for four hours in a mud pit at the bottom of a 75-foot-deep tunnel on Second Ave. late last night, and required a huge team of over 155 firefights and four hours of work to be rescued. Crews used a crane to lower a yellow basket and were finally able to Read More