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(Photo by Michael Sandy Claus Sciaraffo)“This is my personal nightmare,” said a straphanger sitting next to me yesterday evening on a Brooklyn-bound F train. He was taking shallow breaths, with beads of sweat dripping down his face. At that point we’d been stuck underground on a sweltering F
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(Photo via Justin Brannan)The X28 bus — connecting Sea Gate, Coney Island, Bensonhurst, and Dyker Heights to Midtown Manhattan — will now be permanent, said State Senator Martin Golden yesterday. After a trial period that started in Septemeber 2016 [/x28-weekend-express-service-back-mta-review-ridership-bensonhurst/], the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) board voted this week to permanently
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Manhattan-bound N trains re-open at 20th Avenue station and 8 other southern Brooklyn stations. (Photo by Carly Miller/BKLYNER)It’s official, we visited all nine stations on the N line that were slated to open on Monday [/n-train-shuffle-man-bound-stations-re-open-monday-closures-ahead/] — and all MTA employees on-site confirmed that the Manhattan-bound N train
Bensonhurst
(Photo by Rachel Silberstein/Corner Media)Okay southern Brooklyn N riders, we have some good news and some bad news. Let’s start with the good because when is there ever good news from the MTA these days. The good: After more than a year, [/major-n-train-renovations-to-begin-on-january-18-bensonhurst/] 9 stations on the
Bensonhurst
Photo Liena Zagare / BKLYNERA frustrated straphanger emailed us this morning saying that the metro card vending machines at 79 st D Station haven’t been accepting credit cards for more than six weeks now. “I’ve been having to go to an ATM for cash (and of course pay a
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Image via MTA [http://nymta.civicconnect.com/courtesy]The MTA launched a new awareness campaign [http://www.mta.info/news/2017/05/14/mta-launches-new-awareness-campaign-encourage-customers-offer-pregnant-disabled-and] encouraging commuters to show some courtesy by getting up and offering their seats to pregnant, senior, or disabled riders who need to sit. The pilot program
Central Brooklyn
(Photo by Liena Zagare/BKLYNER)Help cops find a teen who robbed a man at knifepoint in the Ditmas Avenue F station last week. The 20-year-old male victim and the suspect had arranged to meet on Thursday, May 4, at 4pm, at the Ditmas Avenue F train station on Mcdonald
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The F train rumbles into the Smith-9th Street station. (Source: Emily Kay Bachman / Flickr)Since the temporary closure [/three-r-line-stops-will-close-for-half-year-in-total-makeover/] of the Bay Ridge Avenue and 53rd Street R train stations, subway riders are incensed over what they call insufficient alternatives for passengers. The 6-month closures in Bay Ridge and Sunset
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Assemblymember Steven Cymbrowitz at East 16th Street and Gravesend Neck Road. (Photo via Cymbrowitz’s office)After almost a decade, a ‘forgotten’ street corner in Sheepshead Bay is expected to open to pedestrians again next month, said Assembly Member Steven Cymbrowitz. The city fenced off the corner of Gravesend Neck
Central Brooklyn
MTA workers found a dead body on the subway tracks in Brooklyn on Sunday morning, cops said. The man’s body was discovered on the Q train tracks between the Prospect Park and Seventh Avenue stations around 6:45am on May 7. A train was approaching the scene, but workers
Central Brooklyn
Photo via Flickr/MTAFor a moment, finding this twitter account made it all seem worth it. The long nights anxiously waiting for a ghost train, the vomit-caked seats, the unexplained delays, the ‘showtime’s, the snail-slow service when the train finally does show up, the rat parades, the overcrowding, the
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Photo by skatercruzito [http://websta.me/p/1067759403701384757_222788340] Finally, some good news from the MTA. As of early this morning, Coney Island-bound F service is finally restored at Avenue I, Bay Pkwy, Avenue N, and Avenue P. After months of waiting, subway riders can finally get to Bensonhurst, Mapleton,