Normally putting your feet up (or god forbid standing on) the seats on the subway is totally verboten. But when a giant rat has decided to hop on the R train to Brooklyn with you? Understandable! Sit back and watch as another train full of humans freaks out over a rodent rail rider: more ›

According to the Post, conductor Thomas Christopher, 35, allegedly got into a verbal argument with the 18-year-old boy aboard the southbound R train as it traveled near the 36th Street station in Astoria around 3:50 a.m. today (DNAInfo claims the incident occurred around 11 p.m. last night). The conductor lost his cool and allegedly punched the teen. Christopher, an MTA employee since March 2007, was arrested on misdemeanor assault charges. more ›

An MTA spokesman tells us that at 5:20 a.m., a northbound R train "struck a person on the roadbed" at the 4th Avenue and 77th Street R train stop in Brooklyn. The victim is deceased. Currently the MTA says there is "no train service between the Bay Ridge-95th Street Station and the 59th Street Station in both directions." We'll update as we know more. more ›

In an interview with the Post, José Rojas (a.k.a. "Osama bin Laden") claimed he had absolutely no clue why he pushed fashion merchandise creative director Ute Linhart into an oncoming R train on Wednesday night. In fact, he only learned of the details when the Post called him. "I don't remember; I just remember waking up in the hospital. I don't know how I got there," he said. "Oh my God, my life is over! Please understand what I'm trying to tell you. All I remember is waking up in the hospital handcuffed." more ›

A fashion merchandise creative director is relieved to be alive after a man shoved her into an oncoming subway train at the 28th Street R station on Wednesday. Ute Linhart hit the train and then the impact threw her back onto the uptown platform; she told the Post, "As the impact happened, I'm thinking, 'I'm going to be dead.' Then I realized that I was in so much pain, I couldn't possibly be dead." more ›

Last week some creep exposed himself and grabbed a female rider in the City Hall R train station, which just so happens to be the same station frequented by noted lech Mike Bloomberg. (Just sayin'.) And like most other stations in the transit system, the City Hall station doesn't have security cameras. Or wait, actually it does have cameras, but the NYC Transit contractor who installed them did such a lousy job that they're useless! So yesterday Public Advocate Bill de Blasio trooped over to the station for a press conference to demand that state leaders fix over 2,000 broken security cameras and reverse layoffs for over 450 station agents. more ›

It's a good thing the MTA Bailout saved the W train from saying farewell because it sounds like its neighboring buddy line the R has already had enough dumped onto it lately. The tenth annual "subway shmutz" survey released today by the Straphangers Campaign rated the R the dirtiest line in the system with only 25 percent of its cars clean. more ›

A reader caught an impromptu one-man dance party on the R train Monday night. She tells us that "going from Manhattan to Brooklyn around 10pm...this guy jumped on the car with a boombox and wearing 80s workout gear. It was clearly some sort of stunt but he seemed to be operating on his own and kept bouncing into different subway cars at each stop." more ›