The police are looking for the public's help in identifying and finding a man accused of punching a MTA subway conductor last week. And the NYPD has also provided a rather vivid sketch of the suspect. more ›

A person was fatally struck by a 1 train at the W 28th Street station in Manhattan this morning. According to the FDNY, the male victim was hit by an uptown 1 train just before noon today, and was DOA at the scene. Some initial reports from the station indicate it may have been a suicide, but one woman wrote: "Holy fuck someone fell under the 1 train I was just on and died and we all ha to get off and I saw the body. I think I'm going to be sick." more ›

An unidentified 50-year-old man is in the hospital this morning after being pinned between the 1 train and the platform at 66th Street, and there are conflicting reports on how he got stuck there. An FDNY spokesman did not have any information about the cause of the incident, but a spokesman confirms the man sustained a skull fracture and fractured his pelvis. Eyewitnesses tell ABC 7 the man was running for a downtown No. 1 train "when he disappeared after hitting the train doors." It's believed he was pinned between the train and the platform, then dragged a short distance. Other witnesses say the man fell during an argument. more ›

Last month, we saw disturbing video of a disoriented man rolling around on the L train tracks after falling off the platform in Brooklyn. There was a lot of debate over the actions—or rather, the inactions—of the videographers. But besides the fact that they chose to upload the video of the man-in-distress online in the first place, the thing that most irked us was when they documented themselves laughing about that situation. In the (albeit not perfectly clear) video below, two witnesses cackle gleefully as a guitarist is jumped on a 1 train by a group of people, before being shoved out at Canal Street. more ›

A gruesome scene unfolded in the Riverdale section of the Bronx this morning when an elderly woman reportedly committed suicide by jumping in front of a 1 train as it pulled into the elevated station at 231st Street. It has not been officially confirmed whether she fell or jumped, but one witness tells The Daily News that the unidentified 74-year-old woman jumped onto the tracks at 9:34 a.m. "She dove into it. She didn't say anything," says one Erica Tuttle. The victim's body was stuck on the tracks for some time before emergency crews removed it, in full view of passers-by on the street below. more ›

It's not just the L train that has been getting you down: the MTA has reduced the number of trains on the 1 and 6 lines during both rush and off peak periods. Billed as a "seasonal adjustment" because there are fewer riders in the summer, starting July 1 the agency dropped the number of rush-hour trains on the 6 train from 23 an hour to 21, and off peak trains from 15 to 13. The 1 train now has 16 trains an hour down from 18 during rush hour, and 10 trains instead of 12 at all other times. One rider tells the Daily News that a train operator told riders not to board the 6 at Grand Central because, "There's no way they could all fit on this one." more ›

The 1, 2, and 3 trains are being rerouted or suspended because of a police investigation at the 34th Street-Penn Station stop. We hear there was an incident (update: triple murder stabbing suspect Maksim Gelman was caught on the 2 train)—either near 34th Street and 7th Avenue or 40th Street and 7th Avenue—which now means the downtown 1 train is terminating at 96th Street, the 2 trains are running on the 5 line between the 149th Street-Grand Concourse Station and the Atlantic Avenue-Pacific Street Station, and the 3 train is suspended between the Chambers Street Station and the 96th Street Station. more ›

Inter-borough mingling has been suspended this weekend for those of you along the L line—PLEASE BE PATIENT! There will be absolutely no L trains running between Myrtle-Wyckoff Avenue and Manhattan, but the MTA claims to be offering some sort of "shuttle bus" debauchery instead. They also suggest you use the the J, M and F trains, as if that makes up for the lost Craigslist Missed Connections potential . more ›

Daily Intel caught up with a 24-year-old who moved from Queens to the Upper West Side, via the 7 train then the 1 train—via a transfer at Times Square—and thanks to his friends from his language school. Well, now they're his former friends after hauling Young Min's "air conditioner, collapsible double-rod closet, dishes (including serving platters and utensils), laptop, linen, quilts, books, clothes, and assorted framed pictures, a soup cauldron, Korean medicine, condiments, and a 40-pound bag of rice... (Mid-trip, the air conditioner broke through the trunk holding it.)" more ›

The Gothamist Newsmap indicated a stabbing at Houston and Varick Streets in Manhattan around 5:36 a.m. this morning and WABC 7 now reports, "Two young men died from wounds they suffered in a stabbing on a downtown No. 1 train early Sunday." Apparently the stabbing occurred on the subway between the West Houston and Christopher stops. Two 24-year-old men with multiple stab wounds were pronounced DOA at St. Vincent's while a 23-year-old man "suffered stab wounds to the arm and neck and is in stable condition at St. Vincent's." It's unclear what led to the stabbing. Last November, a subway passenger was fatally stabbed by another straphanger on a D train. more ›

After part of its ceiling collapsed over two weeks ago, resulting in its closure for the past two weeks, NYC Transit has announced that the West 181st Street station is open at 5 a.m. today for morning rush hour service: "Work over the past weekend was performed by an outside contractor and MTA New York City Transit maintenance personnel to stabilize some additional areas of loose brick and reposition scaffolding to maximize space along the platforms at both 168th Street and 181st Street stations." more ›

Good news for 1 line commuters: The MTA has restored service to Upper Manhattan stations except West 181st Street, where the station is still undergoing repairs after a ceiling collapse. The MTA had suspended service north of West 168th Street and inspected the West 168th Street station yesterday. And it's a good thing the West 168th Street station's ceiling was looked over: CityRoom reports, "The restoration of (nearly) full service comes after a frenzied repair period that revealed additional flaws in a nearby station at 168th Street. Bricks in the vaulted ceiling, which is architecturally similar to the one that collapsed, were labeled as 'areas of concern' by officials, who will close the station again next weekend to fix loose plaster, concrete and brick." Here's shuttle bus and other subway info for commuters who usually use the West 181st Street station. more ›

Commuting woes continue for 1 train riders north of 168th Street, as the MTA has continued to suspend service—details here—as it works clear up debris from a ceiling collapse at the West 181st Street station. (And if yesterday's commute was any indication, 2 and 3 line riders are also being squeezed.) The MTA explained that around 10:30 p.m. on Sunday, "A section of the brick architectural façade fell 35 feet to the track bed below. A downtown 1 train was in the station, but did not sustain any major damage." And luckily no one was injured. more ›

Perhaps you took the 1 train last night and got the rude awakening that 1 service was suspended due to a ceiling collapse onto the tracks at the West 181st Street station. Or maybe you got the NotifyNYC alert this morning, "Until further notice, the number 1 train will not be passing through the 181st street station. For the morning rush hour, all passengers are being shuttled 2 blocks east to the A line. The south bound 1 line's last stop will be the 215th street station. Northbound, the last stop will be the 168th street station." (More details on the transit alert here.) Either way, 1 train riders on the nine stops north of 168th Street are screwed for the time being. In terms of the collapse, luckily no one was hurt, according to the Daily News, which says "a 20- to 30-foot section of the ceiling, including an old stone arch, caved in about 11 p.m. Bricks covered both uptown and downtown tracks and platforms." Workers have been trying to clear the tracks since the collapse; you can see more pre-collapse photographs of the station at NYC Subway. more ›

Last night, a man was stabbed at the South Ferry terminal after a dispute. According to the NY Post, victim Josh Davis, 21, apparently got into an argument on the subway: Davis had been "telling a female pal about how the suspect had threatened to pull a knife on him aboard the number 1 train, accusing him of looking at his girlfriend, according to Davis's friend Chantae Rivas. As he told the story just before midnight, the suspect and his girlfriend walked up and started threatening the victim again." Davis told the man, "What's your problem, I'm not trying to talk to your little girlfriend." Apparently that set the man off and he stabbed a knife into Davis. The suspect left the scene; Davis is in critical condition at Bellevue. more ›