Hey, to all the 2 train riders who think their commutes suck most—you have some statistical proof now! The Straphangers Campaign released a study of the nearly 5,000 alerts the MTA issued last year and found that the 2 train had the "most controllable significant incidents in 2011." more ›

In 2007, Paul Torres had a seizure on the downtown 2 train platform at Penn Station and fell onto the subway tracks just as a train was barreling into the station. It saved his life. "The next thing I knew I was in a hospital room," Torres tells the Daily News. "My mother was there, and the doctors came in and said they had found a tumor in my brain." He'd survived the tumble onto the tracks because he landed in the drainage ditch and the train passed over without touching him. more ›

This video is NSFW, and even if you aren't at work, you don't want to watch it. Basically, a man pulls his penis out of his shorts and starts, you know, touching it... all as the ladies across the way film him. In the interest of calling this subway perv out, we've captured the best screenshot we could of his face and placed it here, on the internet. Should you have the misfortune of running into this guy while underground, please do take a better photo of his face before deboarding. more ›

Frederick Simmons, the 51-year-old man who lost both his legs and a hand after being struck by the 2 train at East 180th street in 2007, was awarded $6 million by a jury yesterday. Simmons' lawyer successfully argued that the train operator waited too long to slow the train once it became apparent that Simmons was on the track. "The fact is she saw something on the tracks but never stopped the train in emergency stopping mode," his attorney tells the Daily News. 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 ›

And this is why they tell you stand back from the edge of the platform. A 57-year-old man had some skin torn from his face when he was struck by an oncoming subway. The victim had been leaning over the tracks to check for an oncoming train at the uptown 2 station at West 14th Street yesterday afternoon, yet somehow didn't have enough time to lean back before the train actually came. He was thrown back from the platform, and a Post staffer who witnessed the aftermath said, "His hand was twitching a little, he was lying on his side." more ›

After an annoying 2, 3 train signal issue at West 72nd Street on Tuesday (it's not so fun being stuck between 42nd and 72nd Street on a 2 train for 25 minutes!), folks who take the 2,3 uptown should know this: NYCT Subway Scoop Tweeted, "Due to NYPD investigation of a customer injury @ 110th St, 3 suspended; downtown 2 via 5 Mott Ave (149th St) to Nevins St (BK)," followed by "Due to NYPD investigation @ 110th St, Uptown 2 & 3 terminating 2 Times Sq & 96th St. Expect delays," and now "Update: injured customer @ 110th St removed by EMS/NYPD, regular 2 & 3 service restored w/residual delays." more ›

Brenddy Garcia, who fatally stabbed two men on a 2 train in March, was freed from Rikers Island yesterday. On Friday, a grand jury believed that he acted in self-defense and did not indict him for murder. The Post caught the 19-year-old "relish[ing] his first seconds outside of prison, beaming a big smile and deeply breathing in the fresh air," and Garcia sarcastically said to the reporter, "I’m a monster, right?" more ›

Investigators are still searching for any surveillance video of the man who fatally stabbed two men and injured another on the No. 2 train Sunday morning, but they have finally released a description of the suspect, along with a police sketch. According to the NYPD, the suspect is an Hispanic male approximately 25-years-old, standing between 5'10" - 6'0" tall with a medium build. WPIX reports that he was last seen wearing a white t-shirt, blue jeans and a black leather waist length jacket. more ›

A group of ten friends were riding to Brooklyn shortly before 5 a.m. Sunday morning on the No. 2 subway train, on their way home from the Cellar Bar in the Bryant Park Hotel, but after an altercation turned violent, two of them wound up dead. Apparently, one of the men tried to toss a bag of trash out of the train as it stopped at the 14th Street Station. Instead, the garbage hit an unidentified man boarding the train with his friends. The assailant took it personally and quickly flew into a homicidal rage. more ›

Posted on craigslist's missed connections: "As I brought my hand down from the rail on the 2 train today at around 10:10 AM, I smashed it into your morning java, sending it spilling all over the floor. I shouted sorry and tried to find you on the platform, but I was tired, confused, and the platform was a bit crazy, so I proceeded on to work with a great lump of guilt in my heart. What a bad way to start the week for you! I am truly sorry. If you can find me and give a basic description of me, I owe you a Starbucks gift card (or equivalent)." more ›

Around 2 a.m. Wednesday, one Joseph Boyd, 46, sat down across from an unidentified teenager on the No. 2 train, exposed himself, and commenced masturbating, cops say. The gender of his 19-year-old witness hasn't been disclosed, but this person was uncomfortable with Boyd's indiscreet onanism, and voiced an objection. According to one account, Boyd fired back with the riposte, "I'm doing my business, you do yours!" Lazy kids. How would they like it if Boyd showed up at whatever fast food chain they work at and barked orders at them? The situation escalated when the pair exited the train at the Flatbush Avenue station, and Boyd allegedly threatened the teen with a pocketknife. But there happened to be a cop nearby, and he was swiftly arrested on charges of public lewdness and menacing. At press time, it was unclear whether his business was ever taken care. more ›

Folks using the 1, 2 or 3 trains, start praying that NYC Transit is able to fix issues at Park Place by the evening rush. A reader had mentioned that a train derailed at Park Place earlier today and now the MTA's NYCT Service Alert page says:

"Due to a train with ongoing mechanical problems at the Park Place Station, 2 train service is running on the 5 line between the 149th Street-Grand Concourse Station and the Nevins Street Station in both directions. 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 ›

Fresh off their annual Subway Shmutz Survey, the Straphangers Campaign is doing their best to be a buddy to local commuters with the release of "State of the Subways." (They sure do love those s's!) The group analyzes subway performances in a variety of different categories and then breaks them down by individual lines, something that the MTA refuses to do. more ›

A four-alarm fire that destroyed at least 12 businesses in the Bronx has also caused some transit issues. Smoke at the Pelham Parkway 2 station is causing the 2 to bypass all stations between Wakefield-241st and East 180th, bypassing Gun Hill Road, Burke Avenue, Allerton Avenue, Pelham Parkway and Bronx Park East. The MTA says there are shuttle buses between stations and also suggests riders take other buses for the B, D, 4 and 6 trains. more ›