Erin, a librarian living in Brooklyn, has an epic account of a run-in with a drunk fat guy wearing chef's pants on the G train who was trying to wow her and her friend. Apparently the man was so drunk that he thought she and her friend from Boston were speaking with accents. She continued: more ›

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 ›

How much money would it take to get YOU to jump down into the subway tracks? If you're this guy playing guitar at the G train stop at Metropolitan Avenue, that magic number is five dollars. A tipster tells us he was waiting for the G last night around 8:30 p.m. when a man on the opposite side of the tracks offered the busker $5—and tried to throw it to him by wrapping the bills around four pennies fastening them with a paper clip. It didn't work, and the money landed down in the trackbed. We now join today's Darwin Award nominee clip, already in progress: more ›

The fight to save the G train five continues! Today the Working Parties Family, along with pols like Comptroller John Liu, showed up at the MTA's headquarters to drop off a petition to save the G train extension into Church Avenue. 11,000+ signatures can't hurt the cause, right? more ›

Last year we delved into the idea of dating outside of one's borough—there were even graphs and charts—and found that some people will only stay with geographically desirable partners. (We are a cold-hearted and lazy people!) Now with the recent news of the G train extension getting cut, cross-borough relationships are at risk of fizzling out, according to some "lovebirds" who spoke to The Brooklyn Paper. more ›

A man was struck and killed by a G train at the Smith and Carroll Street subway station earlier today. The MTA tells us the incident occurred around 12:20 p.m. more ›

The G Train may be slow, infrequent and short but it is Brooklyn and Queens's slow, infrequent and short line and gosh darn it if the denizens of those boroughs are going to let the MTA take away more of it. See the MTA, in exchange for the messy Culver Viaduct repairs, for the last few years has been sending the G train five extra stops into Brooklyn, all the way to Church Avenue. But the fun is supposed to stop in 2014, so locals are getting proactive and actively petitioning to keep the G extension. more ›

A man was stabbed during a fight either on the G train or on the G train platform near Park Slope last night, according to two slightly conflicting reports. Either way, it sounds pretty ugly. more ›

The continuing hell that is F and G train service around Brownstone Brooklyn continues, starting this weekend lasting into, basically, eternity. So if you've ever wanted to explore Windsor Terrace with the magic public transportation, do it now, while you still can. more ›

Finally, a reason to be grateful that the G train is, shall we say, speed challenged. Yesterday morning at 7 a.m. a blind man in his 60s fell into the tracks at the Church Avenue/McDonald Avenue station after mistakenly thinking the train had stopped. Miraculously, however, because the train was so slow getting into the station he was able to quickly roll under the platform and avoid harm. "I’m sure he was scared out of his mind," one construction worker who helped retrieve him, told the Post. "But I don’t even think he had a cut or a bruise...He’s extremely lucky." more ›

A man is suing the MTA over an April 2010 commute that left him with a broken arm—because he had to break it because his arm was stuck in a G train's doors and he was being dragged along the Classon Avenue station platform. Jonathan Lynn told the Daily News, "I didn't think it was real. \[I thought\] the door's going to open, he's going to stop, he's going to hear me. I bounced off one of the pillars, hit my head and that's the extent of my memory." more ›

Say your prayers, Carroll Gardens, Red Hook, Park Slope, Gowanus, and Windsor Terrace: This weekend the F and G trains will meet their maker. The long-dreaded project to rehabilitate the nearly century-old Culver Viaduct is now entering its FML phase, and F and G train service will be suspended in parts of Brooklyn that don't have many convenient subway alternatives. Starting tonight at 11:30 p.m. and continuing through Monday at 5 a.m., the F will stop running between Jay Street-MetroTech and 18th Avenue, and the G will be suspended between Hoyt-Schermerhorn Streets and Church Avenue. more ›

Last weekend, the MTA had planned to suspend F and G train service between Jay Street-MetroTech and Church Avenue in Brooklyn. But at the last minute, post-traumatic snow phobia gave local residents a reprieve, and the work was rescheduled to... this weekend! From 11:30 p.m. Friday to 5 a.m. Monday, January 17th, free shuttle buses will replace F and G service between those two stops. An MTA spokesperson explains that the subway service is being suspended because they just like messing with your head. Kidding, it's for a really important reason! more ›

Just after 1:30 a.m., there were reports of delays on the G train due to a police investigation at the Classon Avenue station. A reader told us, "I was riding a G train on the south bound side just after 1:30am when it came to a screeching halt halfway into the Classon Ave Station. Directly in front of me out the opposite window was a male sprawled out at the very edge and back end of the platform, his feet, legs and bottom half of his torso visible from the train window, his upper torso, legs, and head invisible from that vantage point." more ›

Police and reporters are slowly piecing together the story behind the double-stabbing and suicide attempt that snarled mass transit this morning. The 31-year-old alleged assailant, Ryan Devaney, had a history of fighting with his parents according to neighbors, had been "in and out of institutions" and often fought loudly with his family. more ›

This may explain some of the train delays today: The police were investigating a customer injury that caused delays on the F and the G lines. It appears that someone jumped in front of a train at the 15th Street/Prospect Park station in Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn. Trains should be running again now. The condition of the victim is unclear, but we're hearing that he may have stabbed two people before jumping in front of the train. Update below. more ›

We all know the G Train certainly has its fair share of service issues every weekend, and almost definitely does not care about you. But that doesn't mean that its conductors aren't trying to do their part to make your late night schlep home a bit more enjoyable. Which would explain this conductor's movie-commercial-voiceover vocal magic that one straphanger caught on video at the Bergen street stop last night. We'd take this over that abrasive robot lady any day. more ›

The G train may just be a mere puppet under the control of the MTA, but this is probably what it would say to you if its transit Svengali could figure out how to stick a hand up its caboose and make it talk. Straphangers, the G train will now "show up if and when we feel like it." (Oh and P.S., the transit overlords are still raising fares.) [via @rcwellington] more ›

An off-duty cop managed to quickly save a woman set on killing herself after she jumped onto the subway tracks at the Fulton Street G station last night. The woman allegedly asked Officer James Deligio to point out the third rail to her, and he told the Daily News, "I didn't think much of it until she jumped on the tracks." Deligio managed to pull her to safety just before the train came down the tracks. The woman was transported to Long Island College Hospital, and will be evaluated. more ›

You might want to extend "Bike to Work Day" into "Bike All Weekend" if you live along certain parts of the F and G lines. Once again, from 11:30 p.m. Friday to 5 a.m. Monday, there is no G service in two sections of the line: between Forest Hills-71st Avenue and Bedford-Nostrand Avenues, and between Hoyt-Schermerhorn Streets and Church Avenue. Free shuttle buses will run between Queens Plaza and Bedford-Nostrand Avenue, and between Jay Street and Church Avenue. PLEASE BE PATIENT! more ›

With rehab work on the Culver Viaduct continuing until the end of time, F and G train riders should just get used to headaches like this: From 11:30 p.m. Friday to 5 a.m. Monday, shuttle buses will replace the F train between Jay Street and Church Avenue. According to the MTA, the service suspension will also allow for work on the Jay Street station and the construction of an "underground connector" at Lawrence Street station. And then there's the good old G train. more ›

Earlier this morning, train operator Domenick Occhiogrosso, 50, suffered a fatal heart attack "while guiding the train out of the Court Square station in Queens," reports City Room. The train stopped because of its "dead man's switch." The Post explains, "Once he released his grip from the handle on the control panel, the train stopped as if someone pulled the emergency brake. The train can’t move unless the handle is compressed. On newer cars, the motorman has to hold down a bar with his foot, and on the L line, the operator must press a button every 30 seconds." more ›

In advance of widespread transit service cuts planned for June, NYC Transit is getting an early start by terminating G train service between Court Square and Forest Hills, effective April 19th. But the end probably won't feel so bitter for many commuters, because the G infrequently putters along that stretch of track anyway. more ›

After statistician Nate Silver (best known for his accurate predictions of the 2008 presidential primaries) ranked Brooklyn's Greenpoint as the fifth best neighborhood in the city, residents have felt everything from legitimized to confused. Silver rated each neighborhood on criteria like safety, access to transportation and nightlife, and Greenpoint beat out many more popular neighborhoods like the East Village, Williamsburg and Bushwick. One local teacher told the Times, “We’re on the map. I think we deserve even one, or two." But others weren't convinced they deserved such a high spot. more ›

The G train weekend suspensions, which were originally supposed to last for four weekends, will happen again later this year, with at least two more rounds of suspensions lasting at least a month each, according to Assemblyman Joe Lentol, who's pressuring the MTA to do a better job communicating with riders. To that end, NYC Transit spokesman Paul Fleuranges has emailed us to announce that this weekend the G will finally be running again—but just between Court Square and Bedford-Nostrand. more ›