After commuters on the L and B/D (as well as N/Q/R/W) lines had to deal with breakdowns and commuting delays last night, this evening's commute brings delays on the F, D, G and N lines. Apparently a signal problem at 4th Avenue-9th Street Station in Brooklyn is causing the F to be shut between West 4th Street-Washington Square Station and the Church Avenue Station in both directions. The F then runs on the D......

Riders hope that low grades for the G line will eventually lead to improvements, while plans are in place to make the G a more usable line. Despite being the two largest boroughs in New York City, there is only one train line dedicated to getting people from Brooklyn (2.5 million people) to Queens (2.3 million people). All other passages must make their way from one borough, through Manhattan (1.6 million people), and then on......

Around 1:30AM, a livery cab driver who decided to help another livery cab with car trouble is now dead. An allegedly drunk driver fatally struck him near Church Avenue and Ocean Parkway in Brooklyn The good samaritan livery cab driver spied that a fellow livery cab was stopped in the middle lane on an exit ramp off the Prospect Expressway. WABC 7 reports that the 50-year-old man was "getting out of the driver's side of......

Reader Steve said he heard a rumor that the NYC Transit Authority was "testing some type of new device that detects trains and warns workers via a clip on unit." And it turns out the rumor was true. The Post reports that the MTA started testing the ProTracker. This is how the ProTran1, which makes it, describes the device:The ProTran1 ProTracker Train Transceiver is designed to be mounted in the cab of a train and......

In New York, “fresh peas” means the green kind—English, sugar snap, or snow—for which the prime season is spring. But down South, summer brings a whole other crop of legumes that are also called fresh peas (or shell peas). There are whippoorwills, zippers, and crowders; cream peas, butter peas, and lady peas (also known as purple-hull peas). Unlike other Southern specialties like grits and okra, these delicacies have yet to be discovered by chefs in......

Tales of voodoo and secret families are coming to light as police investigate the tragic drowning deaths of two Staten Island children, apparently at the hands of their father who then threw himself in front of a subway. After working a 3pm-11pm shift at a nursing home, Francoise Mercier found her 5 year old son and 2 year old son dead in a bathtub in their Daniel Low Terrace apartment at 11:40pm. A few hours......

Yesterday saw the unveiling of Peter Jennings Way on West 66th Street (outside the ABC News headquarters). Jennings became an American citizen two years before his death, lived on the Upper West Side, and love the city dearly. Even WNBC 4 mentioned the street naming last night! And in other street-naming news, Community Board 17 in Brooklyn is approved a motion to remain Church Avenue in Brooklyn "Bob Marley Avenue." Other community boards need to......