Around 3:30 p.m., the MTA Tweeted, "#ServAdv: #6 via express, both directions, b/t 125th St & 42nd St-Grand Central due to NYPD investigation at 77th St," and nearly an hour later, "#ServAdv: Customer struck by train at 77th St is deceased, NYPD investigation ongoing service changes on #6 remain. Expect delays on #4 #5" more ›

Have you ever noticed some shady character mucking about in a subway station on the opposite platform, on the other side of the tracks, perhaps yelling profanities and acting belligerent, and thought yourself, "Golly, I'm glad that ne'er-do-well isn't on my side! Over here I can enjoy my Lady Chatterley's Lover in peace." Well, it seems the other side of the tracks isn't so very far away, as one unfortunate man discovered earlier this month at the 6 train station at Lexington Avenue and 77th Street. more ›

Police say they have arrested the man who allegedly groped a woman on the downtown 4/5/6 platform at the Union Square subway station. After the attacker pushed her forward, lifted her dress, and groped her buttocks, the victim followed her attacker onto a 6 train and took his photograph. more ›

Yesterday, the college student who took a photograph of a man who groped her on the downtown 4/5/6 platform at Union Square spoke out about her ordeal, telling the Post that after his brazen attack, she followed him onto a 6 train, “I ran up to him. I kicked him in the face. I was just punching him." But in interviews with local news stations, Shyane DeJesus, revealed that no one paid attention to her when she went after the perv, "I yelled out on the train, ‘He groped me on the train! Watch out for this man,’” but the 10 other people on the train "just blocked out the whole situation. They wouldn't come to help." more ›

Was your subway commute a little crazy this morning? Blame the 6. At about 4 a.m. this morning a 6 train with roughly 100 passengers derailed near Harlem's 125th Street station. According to the MTA the incident is still being investigated and in the meantime the Lexington line has been dealing with a number of service changes all morning. 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 ›

Yesterday afternoon, a woman was fatally hit by a No. 6 train after she passed out and fell onto the tracks at the 77th Street stop on the Upper East Side. Police say that 21-year-old Bronx resident Fatoumata Diallo fainted, possibly due to the heat, just as a northbound No. 6 train pulled into the station, and was "cut in half", according to a witness. "Everyone was waiting for the train, and they started screaming," Sandra Pereira told the Post. more ›

Police say that a woman was fatally hit by a No. 6 train after she passed out and fell onto the tracks at the 77th Street stop on the Upper East Side this afternoon. It's suspected she was overcome by the heat. "A woman was cut in half," one subway rider, who was treated for shock at Lennox Hill Hospital after witnessing the crash, told the Post. more ›

The Daily News has quite the juicy "exclusive" today with a story about MTA workers using an in-service subway train to transport piles of "rat-filled" garbage. You can't see any rats in this photo of trash on the 6 train, but the News headline says they're in there, and do you really want to root around and find out? Also unsettling is the color of the bags, which evokes those medical waste biohazard bags. An anonymous MTA worker tells the tabloid: more ›

A man was struck—and the police say his leg was severed— by a downtown 6 train on the Upper East Side earlier this morning. According to the AP, "NYC Transit spokeswoman Deirdre Parker said the accident occurred at 77th Street and Lexington Avenue. The person was struck by a downtown No. 6 train at 2:24 a.m." The man was taken to Lenox Hill Hospital and the police do not believe there was criminality involved. more ›

Balance folks, balance! Just before noon, a female straphanger fell onto the track bed at the 59th Street-Lexington Ave station as a southbound 6 train approached. Luckily, she fell just so and the train passed over her and she was removed by paramedics in one piece. The MTA tells us that service was stopped for about an hour and is now running again with residual delays. This is the third person to survive falling in the tracks in as many weeks—earlier in the month a man tried to kill himself via the G train after he slashed his parents and last week a man in a wheelchair fell into the tracks at 125th Street. 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 ›

This rat is real. A reader sent in this photo from her commute home on the 6 train tonight, telling us: "A lot of people were moving to other cars. He was playing with it and as soon as I went to take a picture he put the rat in his mouth!" Is this man single-handedly responsible for controlling the underground ratdemic? And on a scale of "1" to "Unclean!"—how much worse is this to witness than someone digging into a bag of malodorous McDonald's on the subway? We apologize for any nightmares this image is going to give you—let's just pretend he went home and sang the below song to his special rodent friend. more ›

Reader Milan alerted us to the scene at the 33rd Street uptown 6 platform from this morning. It actually looks pretty comfortable provided nobody opens the door. more ›

The father of the woman crushed by a 6 train said he was "in shock". Rose Mary Mankos, 48, had been trying to retrieve her gym bag (which contained her ID and cellphone), when it fell onto the tracks; while onlookers yelled for her to lie down, she apparently froze in panic. Mankos, a lawyer who lived in Stuy Town, was remembered as a "lovely person, a superb employee and a good friend" by a former colleague, while a neighbor said, "She definitely was not 100 percent there," though not threatening. Her father said, "I'm 82 years old. I felt like 60 and now I feel like 105. It takes a lot of strength to deal with this, and that's something I don't have right now." more ›

Yesterday afternoon, a woman was fatally struck by a northbound 6 train at the 77th Street and Lexington Avenue station in Manhattan. Police now say that 48-year-old Rose Mary Mankos had jumped into the tracks to pick up her fallen bag. Witnesses were yelling at her to lie on on the track bed, but, the NY Times reports, "Panicked, the woman scrambled toward the platform and struggled to climb up, but was crushed as the train came charging into the station." more ›

New York City's transformation from affluent global capital to agrarian provincial backwater continues apace: Now people are packing into the subway with their barnyard animals. Last night blogger "Kylie" was riding the 6 train with a chicken and the man (Borat?) who loves it. Oh, horse apples, the guy's even wearing an MTA shirt! Good thing there weren't any hamsters on board, or things really would have gotten crazy. Kylie tells us: more ›

The subway crew operating the uptown 6 train where a vicious fistfight left a woman bleeding severely from the face followed every protocol, a Metropolitan Transportation Authority spokesman told Gothamist. Once the crew realized that a brawl between two straphangers had broken out in the Third Avenue-138th Street station on Dec. 13 at around 1:30 am, the conductor alerted the Rail Control Center of "the fight occurring on the platform and his inability to close the doors," said MTA Transit spokesman Paul Fleuranges. more ›

After Gothamist reported yesterday on a vicious fight on an uptown 6 train that left a woman bleeding severely from the face, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority is trying to track down the train crew on duty when the melee took place. "We still haven't isolated the crew yet. We are trying to isolate the crew and take it from there," said MTA Transit spokesman James Anyansi. more ›

A straphanger recorded a brutal fistfight on the 6 train that left a woman bleeding profusely from the face. It's unclear exactly when or why the fight broke out, but the nasty spat — which goes on for about 3 minutes and spills out of the train car and into a station — was apparently uploaded and removed from YouTube on Dec 25 before being posted on the Daily Motion website on Dec. 26. (Update: It's now been removed from Daily Motion, but someone uploaded it to YouTube again, where it will probably stay for another few hours.) more ›

A new study put out by City Councilman Daniel Garodnick hopes to save east side trains in Manhattan from suffering the ax that is likely coming to various lines around the city. The survey of the Lexington Avenue lines at rush hour discovered "130 riders kept off of each downtown 6 train at 77th Street during morning rush, ...on two days, the number was over 400." The MTA says that with trains running every two minutes during rush hours, there isn't much more they can do. The only relief they offer up is the building of the 2nd Avenue line--scheduled to open in 2015. Garodnick also highlighted how many passengers get stranded on platforms during weekday home games at Yankee Stadium and called for more bus lines to the Bronx. The MTA thinks that burden should be alleviated by the opening of a Metro-North station near the stadium next spring. more ›

The NY Post reported that on Friday night, a man dressed as the Grim Reaper slashed a tourist from New Hampshire on a 6 train. Around 9 p.m. near East 59th Street, Ismael Guevera allegedly "shoved a fake sickle in" Lee Dutton's "girlfriend's face". Dutton told him, "You don't need to be doing this," prompting Guevera to take out a boxcutter and slash Dutton's neck, just missing his jugular vein. Guevera also allegedly yelled, "Who's next? Who wants to start s--- next?" Dutton and his girlfriend got out at 68th Street, and Guevera was arrested at 96th Street. Dutton told the Post, "His intentions were definitely there, he just didn't succeed too well." more ›

A Gawker reader spotted novelist Salman Rushdie on the 6 train. One commenter asked, "Does an award-winning, socially critical novelist not deserve a seat? And you call this civilization..." Not to mention a novelist with a fatwa! Back in 2000, the Observer reported on Rushdie's man-about-town ways, and one book agent bitterly said, "I was so pissed to be in the restaurant with him. I'm going to be mad, and dead... We can't enjoy our meal. We don't want to die because of his fatwa. It's so passive-aggressive toward people in Manhattan. We have enough trouble here." Rushdie has always liked NYC—his first public appearance post-fatwa was at Columbia in 1991. more ›

Due an "incident with a forklift at the Westchester Yard," the MTA says riders should be prepared for "extensive delays in service on the 4, 5 and 6 trains at this time." What kind of incident, you ask? Well, according to WNBC, "The forklift hit and damaged the third rail preventing trains from getting out of the yard for the afternoon rush hour." Oh, crap. Update: WABC 7 says everything's back to normal, but as of 5:16 p.m., the MTA's website still says there may be delays. Intrepid straphangers, let us know how it goes! more ›