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NYC straphangers cheer Hochul vow to put cops on overnight subways -- but plan remains unclear
Mind the gap. Straphangers tentatively cheered Gov. Kathy Hochul's plan to put New York's Finest on every overnight subway train Wednesday -- but it remained unclear how the NYPD would...
MTA's bogus 'proof' that congestion pricing is working
Data from the first week of the scheme showed that the average weekday total of vehicles entering the central business district was 7.5% lower than the estimated average for the...
NYC dollar-van driver fatally shot in chilling drive-by of second dollar van
A dollar-van driver was fatally shot when another dollar van rolled up beside him and someone fired a bullet at him in Brooklyn on Sunday afternoon, law-enforcement sources told The...
Gov. Hochul is the face of the MTA's congestion-toll madness: Don’t let her fool you
Gov. Hochul rushed to squelch outrage over the MTA’s extra surge-pricing squeeze on Manhattan drivers after The Post broke the news that the $9 congestion-pricing toll would soar to $11.25.
Man sneaking a smoke in between NYC subway cars killed in gruesome Christmas night mishap: sources
A 49-year-old straphanger smoking between subway cars was crushed to death after he slipped onto the tracks on the Upper East Side Christmas night, according?to sources and police.?
The MTA won't quit squeezing New Yorkers for cash — even as it shells it out by the billions
On Wednesday, the MTA OK'd a plan to hike fares nearly 4% next year, even as it charges motorists $9 to drive in midtown Manhattan — and all while shelling...
MTA mulling using drones to track NYC buses, sparking outrage from union: 'Suspicious'
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is considering using aerial drones to track its 6,000-bus fleet -- sparking outcry from transit union leaders, who call the plan a “fishy” spending waste. The...
Cash-strapped MTA spent $250M on emergency subway intercom system that's overrun with pranksters
A damning new probe shows the cash-strapped MTA dropped a mind-boggling $250 million on an emergency subway intercom system where 50% of the calls are pranks — and critics questioned...
These not-so-secret underground watering holes at NYC subway stations are raising the bar
There's no MetroCard necessary to visit these subterranean watering holes.
Meet the woman who blows kisses to unsuspecting subway riders in NYC -- see how they react
“I hear about all the bad stuff going on on the train, so I just wanted to put myself out there by spreading love,” lifelong Bronxite Tamia Jones told The...
New York City subway system turns 120 — here's what it looked like in 1904
"We want people to think about what the next 120 years look like," Concetta?Bencivenga, New York Transit Museum director, told The Post. "The subway is for everyone. It’s the great...
New Yorkers share their most memorable subway moments — good, bad and ugly — as rail system turns 120
“The subway is like the eighth wonder of the world,” Rick McGuire, 40, founder of virtual people-watching hub @SubwayCreatures, told The Post of the city's train system, which celebrates its...
Brutal NYC train operator stabbing prompts calls from union for MTA to ramp up subway safety
Members of the Transport Workers Union Local 100 – which represents more than 40,000 bus and subway workers – rallied Thursday outside the Crown Heights-Utica Avenue station at the end...
Port Authority bus terminal replacement OK’d by city planners – but ‘long overdue’ makeover could take a decade
The Port Authority bus terminal in Midtown finally got the greenlight for a $10 billion “eyesore to eye-popping" transformation Wednesday – but it could take a decade to see major...
NYC icons Zabar's, MTA will celebrate 210 combined years in business with free treats this month
"My father told us if you open a store within two blocks of a subway station, you become a rich store," Stanley Zabar, 92, said Tuesday outside the Broadway location....
Vagrant charged with severely slashing MTA worker was on parole, has eerily similar transit attack on his rap sheet
Accused subway slasher Jonathan Davalos was still on parole when he allegedly stabbed a veteran MTA worker who woke him up from a nap aboard a Brooklyn subway train.
Frustrated Penn Station commuter creates app to predict track numbers —?and avoid the stampede
Longtime NJ Transit sufferer Joshua Crandall was fed up feeling the pent-up energy of his fellow stressed-out rail riders, standing around waiting — tired of the trample-or-be-trampled, chaotic mad dashes...
Broken subway, broken empire: UN confab adds to NYC's burden
When the global gabfest known as the UN General Assembly descends upon Turtle Bay, we residents expect that in this week — of all weeks — our public transportation systems...
MTA's $68.4B capital plan: pure fiction and 'a cry for help'
Unless and until Gov. Hochul becomes a firmer leader, the MTA's massive infrastructure plan will remain unfunded — a lot of ideas, and no way to pay for them.
We met on the NYC subway and now we're getting married — our morning commute turned into a meet-cute
More like the Meet Cute Authority.