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The Daily News looked at the dangers of some subway stations' platforms: At many stations, the "rubbing boards," which are the barriers next to the platform that act as a buffer so the train doesn't hit concrete, are crumbling apart, which can lead to potential subway riders' falls. The DN says riders could trip on the uneven surfaces and the cracked boards could snag someone's heel. The dangerous stations are "Burnside Avenue, Mosholu Parkway, Kingsbridge Road and 183rd St. on the No. 4 line in the Bronx and at Smith/Ninth Sts. (F), Lawrence St. (M,R) and Newkirk Ave. (B,Q) in Brooklyn."
And in other subway safety (or non-safety news, as it were), a man on his way back from a bar was stabbed at the West Fourth Street station yesterday morning while waiting for a northbound F at 5AM. Three men demanded his cellphone, he refused and tried to walk away but was stabbed. The assailants left without the cellphone, and the victim is in stable condition at St. Vincent's.
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Anyone riding the sbway home at 5am, alone, deserves to be mugged. Must be from the midwest.
Why would anyone try to steal a cellphone anyway? Unless it's a Blackberry, it's worth all of $10 on the black market - if that, even.
What's valuable about a cellphone is that it tends to be the only holding place for one's entire contact roster. If I lost my cellphone, I'd lose contact information for a lot of people permanently. If I were on that platform late at night and three thugs started harrassing me for my cellphone, I might be a little reluctant to hand it over unless they were clearly brandishing a weapon. (It sounds like they pulled the knife AFTER the guy tried to sneak away from them)
Oh, and although I'm not the world's leading expert on common sense and safety, I will say that I've been on that platform at that time of night many times in the past. And I'm not a lame tourist. Even if you're joking about stabbing tourists, it's kind of a dumb joke if you ask me.
As for the crumbling platforms - add the 14th street platform on the Seventh Avenue line to that list. On Saturday, I almost ended up on the tracks because the edge crumbled off as I stepped on it. (Again, not the world's best expert on common sense and safety)
let them take limos.
Now tell us something we don't know.
As for your important contacts, you could try either syncing them to your PC or just plain writing them down. Phones get stolen or lost or just plain break every day. Anyone who keeps important information on one without backing it up is just asking for trouble.
You'd have to be a dumbass to use a cell phone that you'd mugged someone for since you can figure out where the calls are being made from. Fortunately, when I was mugged, the dude was a dumbass. Way to use my stolen phone to call your girlfriend and order takeout, crackhead. Hope you're enjoying your prison sentence.
I don't know who your carrier is, but I know that you can go into any Spint store and they'll download all you phonebook stuff and print it out for you.
FINALLY my subway station makes it into the news! Newkirk Avenue!
I would sync the cellphone frequently on my computer, except that the only way to do that is with a $60 data cable. And I'm on too tight of a budget to go out and blithely buy a $60 cable that will be obsolete when I get my next phone (usually once a year).
They should allow a network phonebook sync, just like the way AOL Instant Messenger keeps your contact list online. Or even simpler, just allow me to e-mail myself my phonebook, as text, periodically. Is that too much to ask? That way, there's nothing at stake if someone feels the need to rob me for my cellphone (which, as already stated, is something only an idiot would stage an armed robbery for).
I have Verizon Wireless and if their stores do the printout thing, I'd totally do it. That's a nice service that Sprint has.
Because it's Verizon, though, I doubt they have it. Their retail service utterly blows.
Have you tried, you know, pen and paper?
Remember, it's a Verizon cellphone. Hence, doing any task on it sucks badly because of craptacular UI design. This includes browsing the address book. I find it painful to even send an outgoing call to anyone who's name does not begin with "A". (if you're a friend with a name that begins with "W" and I only send you e-mail, this is why) Every Verizon phone is notoriously designed poorly with every function except for the basic telephone features of "dial", "pick-up", and "hang-up" - at which they're superior to all others because of Verizon's excellent service coverage.
Anyway, on my particular phone, it is terribly burdensome to look up actual stored numbers, since they're hidden in too many menus and require 8 or 9 keypresses each to view. Any attempt to transcribe the whole thing, therefore, would take up to an hour of button-pressing, navigating, squinting, copying, and menu-closing.
Plus, if my phone's not backed up at least bi-weekly, there's no point in the task. The only phone numbers I need are mostly retrieveable through my own memory or other records. If your contact info has been established with me for more than a month, chances are that I can hand my cellphone to a mugger and not lose track of you completely. (Or I was never going to call you anyway.)
And, in the end, this all makes it that much dumber to try to rob it. You're committing a serious felony not just to get a cellphone of little value, but a poorly-designed cellphone of little value. If I were a mugger myself, I'd take one look at it and hand it back.
Man, you need a better phone. I've got Verizon and my phone only takes one button push to scroll through the address book.
But getting back on topic, whenever Gothamist reports about a crime, some jackass always has to blame the victim. True, he probably shouldn't have fought over a cell phone, but still... how about blaming the mugger? The next time someone you know or love is stabbed, mugged, beaten, shot or raped be sure to remember that it was their fault.
A fair amount of people leave to go to work at 5am. It's not a ridiculous time to be using the subway
Nightshift worker chiming in. I would not like to be stabbed on my way home from work, please. Thanks!
I was mugged, the dude was a dumbass. Way to use my stolen phone to call your girlfriend and order takeout, crackhead. Hope you're enjoying your prison sentence.
Prison for stelaing a cellphone? Are u high? It was probably more of a hassle for you to get a replacement than it was for him to pay his fine.
Even if u are a nite worker, common sense and street smarts will keep u from getting robbbed or stabbed....but this person was out drinking and on his way home drunk. That is lacking in both categories, no?
Prison isn't relevant just for the stealing of a cellphone (if you grabbed it off a table or pickpocketed it, for example, a very short sentence would be the worst you'd get as a repeat offender), but armed robbery and attempted murder are very serious felonies. Our genius platform attacker didn't think too well when he decided to pull out a knife and use it just for a little digital gadget (which he DIDN'T get).
Then again, I suppose that comes with the territory of being a petty criminal or gang member, eh? You must not be very smart if you need to stab people to make a living or earn the respect of others.
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