Remember last year when the MTA decided to try an experiment and remove the platform trash cans from the Eighth Street on the N/R lines and Main Street on the 7 line stations? At the time we were all kind of skeptical that it might actually lead to a reduction in station trash. Well, aren't we pleasantly surprised: It apparently has been working! more ›

[UPDATE BELOW] This YouTube video has it all: a highly intoxicated person, an unsteady documenter, very little information, no closure, and an MGMT soundtrack. The footage was uploaded last night, and we've contacted the uploader to get more details about the scenario. But until we hear back, let's discuss: should the fellow straphangers have made more of a hands-on effort to help this guy out? Or were they all (except for the MTA worker who has a brief interaction with him) too drunk from the big game, too? more ›

DNAinfo has a photograph of blood on the platform and reports, "The man, who was not identified, was knocked unconscious onto the platform, according to an MTA worker at the scene. The worker said the injured man looked like he was in his 20s." more ›

Last night, subway service on the 2, 3, 4 and 5 subway lines was affected due to "police activity." It turns out that a man was killed by an oncoming 4 train after falling from the platform. more ›

Truck oops: Notify NYC sent out this message, "A vehicle struck a subway platform at 172nd St. and Southern Blvd. in BX. Disruptions on the 2 and 5 trains." And the MTA's NYC Transit Twitter says, "Crews working to cut trailer apart and away from the El @ 174th St & Southern Blvd (2,5). Hope to restore service soon after." But don't fear, 2 and 5 train riders, there is service...but there are delays: "2 & 5 restored in the Bronx between 149th St-Grand Concourse & E. 180th St. Truck removed, cables repaired. Expect delays." more ›

This must be one of everyone's worst nightmares: Getting trapped between the subway and platform. Just after midnight on Thursday, a man got his leg caught between the D train and platform at the Grand Street station on the Lower East Side. One onlooker took video of the man while he was trapped. more ›

The latest Improv Everywhere stunt unfolded recently on the 23rd Street E and C line subway platform: a pop-up art gallery with placards attached to everyday items, magically transforming them into priceless works of art. The trash can, for example, was titled Repository and described as a "clearly ironic reinterpretation" that "plays on the tropes of idealism in opposition to expediency." There was also a bar (stocked with non-alcoholic drinks), a cellist, and even a coat rack. Fancy! more ›

Some Park Slope activists have so little faith in the MTA's promise to renovate the dreary Fourth Avenue and Ninth Street station that they're imploring transit officials to scale back their plans and instead make a few specific improvements immediately. The massive refurbishment was supposed to begin this year and turn the "dank and dark" station into a light-filled hub with clean windows and a new copper roof. But the plans were later scaled back and postponed in the shadow of looming budget shortfalls. more ›

"People have seen them sitting on benches," says Andrew Albert, an MTA board member and chair of the NYC Transit Riders Council. "From what riders have told us, they appear to be getting bolder." That's the subway rat population he's talking about, which many commuters say is surging, at least according to an amNY article that's teeming with great quotes. "Next thing you know the doors are going to open and one is going to come on the train with us," one exterminator predicts. more ›

The long-neglected F train station at 4th Avenue and 9th Street in Brooklyn will be refurbished starting in the fall, according to amNY. Built in 1933, the Art Deco station is on the National Register of Historic places, and the north end of the platform offers an impressive view of the Statue of Liberty. more ›