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With subway ridership at a new high in decades and many more riders on the way if the city's forecasts are true, the MTA has been thinking of ways to increase subway capacity. And Howard Roberts, president of the NYC Transit Authority which operates the subways and buses, says that one solution could be to extend subway platform and add two more train cars to the existing ten.

• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a bank robbery at Victory Blvd. and Lester St. on Staten Island, a fall victim down a trench at Carlton and Park Aves. in Brooklyn, and a construction accident on West 30th St. and 10th Ave. in Manhattan.
• If you have Time Warner Digital Cable and are interested in transit issues, get NY1's In Transit on demand; the Daily News' Peter Donahue shared some interesting insights about the transit worker deaths with Bobby Cuza.
• Brooklyn photographer Spencer Tunick convinced 18,000 people to get naked in Mexico City's main square so he could photograph them. Yes, there is a slideshow after the link.
• Alerted by a foul smell coming from her daughter's closet, a Queens mother found the body of an infant stuffed into a bag. She took the infant to the hospital, but the child had been dead for approximately a week.
• A presumably former Mr. Chow waiter is suing the eponymous chain's owner for $5 million, after Chow allegedly kicked him and made him lie on the floor during a staff meeting as punishment for showing up late.
• The Bedford Police Dept. is following a trail of clues in the homicide of a homeless man found dead by the side of the road by impounding two police cars from neighboring Mt. Kisco in Westchester. The body of Guatemalan immigrant Rene Perez was found an hour after he had dialed 911 for the Mt. Kisco police. Responding Mt. Kisco officers said he did not have a police matter and left him, considering the incident closed.
• The NYPD is in the process of replacing Polaroid cameras with digital ones, in order to enhance the prosecution of domestic abuse cases by providing better images of victims' injuries.
• New York's Daily Intelligencer has early sketches of what might be in store for the Hudson Yards development on Manhattan's West Side.

It's been 33 years since the last Second Avenue Subway groundbreaking, so it's high time for new generations of straphangers to revel in the hope of a new subway line. We also expect the public -- especially the Upper East Side-residing public -- to become jaded with construction delays, traffic issues, and noise. Here's the press release from the MTA:

Tomorrow morning's historic groundbreaking ceremony for the Second Avenue Subway can be seen by all New Yorkers live on NY1, beginning at 10:30 a.m. The groundbreaking ceremony will take place in one of the subway tunnels built under Second Ave. in the 1970s but never used. Due to the limited capacity of the tunnel, the MTA arranged for the live broadcast with NY1 and will open its board room at 347 Madison Avenue for members of the public to join MTA staff for a public viewing and celebration.

Continue reading "Second Avenue Subway Groundbreaking Day!"

We love NY1, it's true. But Bucky at Animal magazine might love NY1 more - specifically Bobby Cuza - as he has a Flickr set of photos titled "Stalking Bobby Cuza." Gothamist might have a photo set like that of our own, if we didn't have such bad luck with restraining orders. But the real bonus with Bucky's photos taken during the transit strike press campouts at the Grand Hyatt is that you see Arthur Chi'en, now on Channel 11.

On the first day of the transit strike, we asked you if you crushed on any local news reporters while watching non-stop coverage. And according to our highly unscientific straw poll, NY1's Bobby Cuza takes the top honors. Which makes sense, since he seemed to be on the air every possible moment! Gothamist really did love scrappy NY1's one-two-three punch of Cuza at the Grand Hyatt (where the negotiations were usually taking place)Rebecca Spitz in the studio, and Dean Meminger at TWU headquarters, as we would debate whether or not to go to bed or keep watching to see if something new would happen. (For the record, the big announcements happened at 3AM - when the strike was announced - and midday - when the transit workers returned to work.) Not that Gothamist necessarily wants some crazy emergency to see these kids in round-the-clock action again, but they were awesome.