Gosh, it rained hard in NYC. Yer a brave bunch of navel-gazers.

I took the L from 1st over to the 4/5 up to 59th Street. It took much longer than usual because the 4/5 going downtown all had to run on the local track due to flooding on the express track and I guess that came around full circle and affected the uptown trains as well. From what I've heard though, I was not affected as badly as most.

I go to college up in the bronx, but i live in queens..so you can only imagine.

First the E train (the last one going to the city, I think) took an hour at least to go from 71st to Roosevelt. Finally when the E train got into 7th ave, the conducter told us the B and D trains were working, so naturally i got off to take the D to the bronx..once I got off the train, the workers in the station are screaming "NO B AND D TRAINS UPTOWN OR DOWN". So after waiting half an hour for another E i left and walked to Times Square from 53rd street to take the S to the 4 train and finally when i got the 4 at grand central I took it all the way up to yankee stadium and switched to the D

NORMAL COMMUTE: 1:30

TODAY'S COMMUTE: FOUR HOURS!!!

The 6 train outta 96th Street was horrible... but at least we have mass transit. Those poor people in Florida aren't as lucky as we to be able to ride the city for 2 bucks. As for the F express in Brooklyn, look for it to run to Church Street as an express and hookup with the V at 2nd avenue.

The 6 train outta 96th Street was horrible... but at least we have mass transit. Those poor people in Florida aren't as lucky as we to be able to ride the city for 2 bucks. As for the F express in Brooklyn, look for it to run to Church Street as an express and hookup with the V at 2nd avenue.

The 6 train outta 96th Street was horrible... but at least we have mass transit. Those poor people in Florida aren't as lucky as we to be able to ride the city for 2 bucks. As for the F express in Brooklyn, look for it to run to Church Street as an express and hookup with the V at 2nd avenue.

http://www.mta.nyc.ny.us/alert/alertnyct.htm

Everyone should check this to find out about continued delays and suspension of service on many train lines before they try to head home today. Good luck everyone!

I was another of the lovely folks who had to trudge from the 7th Ave F stop in Park slope into 14th/6th, which usually takes about 25 mins and today took almost two hours. at Bergen we had to get off, let a G pass, and then wait for a V to come back around and take us on the G line to Hoyt, where we transferred to an A to 14th/8th and then an L to union Square. it was joyful, i assure you.

Since the 1/9/2/3 never works even on a good morning at 110th St & Broadway I walked in the pouring rain over to the C/B trains at Central Park. Everyone was leaving the station.

My options were to wait underground or trek back to nowhere since nothing was working. So I waited.

The station emptied out and my roommate finds me standing on the stairwell by myself. We get together, the B comes shortly and finally we're on our way to work.

Two stops before we need to get off at 34th street, they decide to reroute the B train to run along the C-line and the next thing I know we're on Eighth Avenue by Port Authority.

Times Square was one messy wreck. No way I was going to try to go through that tunnel of sweaty, angry commuters thrown off by Frances.

So my roommate and I got out onto the street and walked from Eighth Ave/42nd St. to just above Union Square.

We were soo close, yet so faraway... minutes away from our office, ending up becoming the looongest walk to the office this morning. At least we did find each other though.

Hey, where was everybody the streets looked empty - still underground or playing hooky?

It rained this morning? Hm. Must have slept through it. ;)

I walked from 96th/Amsterdam down to 59th, and took the C to Times Sq. Then stood in the E train while it sat between 50th & 7th Ave. for about 20 minutes, at which point I said, "oh, fuck this. I'm calling in sick so I can watch my Angel DVDs". I mean, I work all the way out in Jamaica, plus I have a ton of sick time. They don't pay me enough to put up with this. I just walked all the way back home.

I wish I had my camera, though. There were some nice shots I could've taken.

I take the D from Brooklyn normally; I don't have to be at work until 10 so it wasn't raining by the time I left. Things were going okay until about 9th Avenue, when they stopped the train and told us because of "two passengers on two separate trains getting sick" the entire 4th ave corridor was closed (D/N/R). We sat around for another twenty or so minutes and finally got moving. At Pacific Street they terminated the D and made us get on the N to get into Manhattan, then I had to take a 6 to Astor Place and walk several blocks. Left the house at 9:10 and did not reach work until 11:45.

Does anyone know about this "sick passenger" thing? Or was the MTA just bored with telling us the tracks were flooded?

the manhattan-bound F from brooklyn was just fine at 8.15 or 8.30 this morning... the early bird really does gets the worm.

i swam.

wow, I feel for all of you. I don't have to be to work until noon so not so many people to deal with. Although still had to take the F from Bergen to Hoyt and transfer there with a whole hell of a lot of other people.

F-- The MTA seems to be working on the F express lines so things may work out, but don't know when.

But it is nice when you have the worst morning ever trying to get to work and you are so groggy, it being morning, that you don't really even take everything in and realize that this was some storm that swept in overnight, and just when you think the world is out to get YOU, you finally get in to work and realize that you are one of the first people there, even though you are half an hour late.

I have to commute to NJ for work from Brooklyn everyday. Besides the A train traveling at the speed of a turtle, my 2 hour commute this morning to work was about the same as usual.

58 long minutes on the downtown F stuck in the tunnel between 57th Street and 47-50th Rock. Then it creeps up far enough into the station so everyone can walk through the train and exit out the first set of doors (I of course being in the last car.)

Nothing running downtown...

Miracle of miracles - got a cab on 48th & 6th!

I was fortunate enough to catch a 4 train before it was shut down. Transfered to a 6 and caught a cab from Spring St over to Hudson and Houston. Whew. However, my boyfriend, who left not 20 minutes after me, walked down Flatbush in Park Slope and across the bridge to catch a train up to midtown, bless his little heart.

You'd think New York had never seen rain!!

After reading these horror stories, my hour-long wait and ride on the 6 from 86th to Brooklyn Bridge doesn't sound so bad. I had to let about half a dozen trains go by before I could squeeze into one, and I kept getting dirty looks from this couple seated next to where I was standing. I guess they didn't like that had my legs near theirs -- it's not like I had anywhere else to go. At least we had A/C on the train.



I can't understand how this subway system has existed for 100 years and the MTA still hasn't figured out how to keep the tracks from flooding. If it rains like this tomorrow I might just stay home.