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New York City is underwater. On July 14, a slow-moving storm dumped over 6 inches of rain across the five boroughs, triggering flash flood warnings and shutting down key transit arteries. The city issued a travel advisory late Monday, urging residents to stay off the roads unless evacuating. Subway stations flooded. Streets turned into rivers. …
The tragic fiery murder of a sleeping straphanger in Brooklyn this week illuminated a critical flaw in the city subway system — fire extinguishers are not accessible to the public. Fire extinguishers are readily available only to MTA workers in track tunnels and booths, the transit agency confirmed Thursday, drawing outrage from local leaders who …
Mayor Eric Adams and NYPD brass got a firsthand look at the desolate homeless wasteland inside the Big Apple subway system in an eye-opening overnight tour of the city’s transit vagrant crisis. With The Post tagging along, the mayor and Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch joined a crew from a city multi-agency outreach effort at the …
New York has embarked upon a quest to crime proof its subway system which loses $690 million a year to fare evasion. Will these new futuristic gates do the trick, or should the city go with a different design?
pic.twitter.com/ANxhg37oRo — Scott (@Beefareeno) July 3, 2023 Titan submersible roadside sign at US Subway branch condemned as ‘distasteful’ Critics said the roadside sign, outside a branch of the sandwich chain in the state of Georgia, was in bad taste following the deaths of five men in the deep sea submersible last month. https://news.sky.com/story/titan-submersible-roadside-sign-at-us-subway-branch-condemned-as-distasteful-12914515