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About an hour ago there was what the MTA was describing as a "subway smoke condition" near West 53rd Street and 7th Avenue. We just received some photos of a manhole fire at that intersection, and NotifyNYC is now alerting straphangers that "the F and V trains are suspended in Manhattan. B and D trains are diverted onto the A line between West 57th Street and West 4th Street." NY1 adds that there has been a "forced evacuation" but no injuries have been reported yet.
UPDATE: At 2 p.m. NotifyNYC released the following status update. "Due to a previous fire, there is no 4 train service in both directions between 149th Street-Grand Concourse Station and the Crown Heights-Utica Avenue Station. The 7, B, C, D, F, and G trains have resumed service with residual delays."
UPDATE II: As of 4:45 p.m. "4 train service has resumed in both directions between 149th Street-Grand Concourse Station and the Crown Heights-Utica Avenue Station."
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53rd and 7th, eh? Maybe now we know why a cab there caught fire almost exactly a month ago.
Either that or that place is cursed.
dear subway,
please stop catching on fire
yours truly,
some dude
Next time use lube.
I was in an F station a year or two ago and watched a guy purposely toss a lit match onto some papers on the track. What was really amazing was that nobody beat his ass.
A few months ago a crazy guy jumped down on the tracks in the same station and started screaming. He wouldn't come out. The train came into the station but had been warned so it was able to stop and not hit the dude. So he tried to throw himself UNDER the train.
Nothing really surprises me down there anymore...