Sentences with phrase «around subway»

Stop lugging around a subway sandwich loyalty card - filled monstrosity.

Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said Tuesday that he plans to tool around the subway to check up on...

So as you start your workweek Monday by stepping around the subway junkies, and all the other de Blasio Administration platform detritus, your mayor will be sleeping off jet - lag from his latest silly effort to make himself a player with the international hard left.

Andy Byford, who headed Toronto's transit system until last month, now has the job of turning around subway and bus service in America's most populous city as the new president of New York City Transit.

Richard Ravitch, the former M.T.A. chairman credited with turning around the subway system in the 1980s, urged Mr. Lhota to focus on analyzing the immense needs and prioritizing «state of good repair,» an industry term meaning a system is receiving proper maintenance.

Ride - sharing services such as Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc., and the advent of electric vehicles and driverless cars, are poised to chip away at the higher prices that real estate around subways and bus stops has earned, according to a report from MetLife Inc.'s asset - management business released Tuesday.

Obviously other cities have grown up around subways and trains to a much greater extent, but we all know that during recent decades the trend has been in the direction of Los Angeles.

«As New Yorkers, our lives revolve around the subways,» he said.

Not exact matches

If an overly long commute can spike cortisol levels, then waiting around for delayed trains — and even getting trapped in a steamy subway car for an hour — can't be doing wonders for anyone's health.

Skullcandy has redesigned its Method buds to better fit your ear, whether jogging, lifting, or getting jostled around on the subway.

I was on the subway the other day, reading an e-book on my Kindle, when I looked around and noticed something odd.

Here's hoping the new upgrade goes smoothly, and without harm to any of the 4.3 million people who rely on the New York subway system to get around.

«Most of us can't imagine what it's like to not be able to pay to get on the subway to go to a doctor's appointment or to go to community college or to just get around and see a family member or a friend,» he said.

On each two - page spread, Ventura presents characteristic scenes from different cities around the world, both familiar (New York's subway and Rome's Spanish Steps) and exotic (Hong Kong's houseboats and a North African bazaar).

If the financial goal had not been reached by the end of the service, the minister would send the offering plate back around, shaming the members into emptying their pockets of everything except the subway token they needed to get home.

The agency had issued the blanket ban as a way to get around the First Amendment problems that would have arisen had it issued a specific ban against an ad that pro-Israel activist Pamela Geller wanted to post on buses and in subway stations in the spring of 2015: the prize - winning caricature of the prophet Muhammad in a «Draw Muhammad» contest that Geller's American Freedom Defense Initiative had earlier sponsored in Dallas.

Other fond memories include an organic fingerling potato pizza with the thinnest crust on the planet, dipping our toes in Lake Michigan, finally getting to see pieces by Henry Darger, magnificent architecture, Bucktown, uncomplicated subway, Hendrickx Belgian bakery, and snacking on all the lovely produce after a long day of walking around, with blisters.

It gets light around the time we get on the subway to work and dark long before we get out.

Other than walking and the subway we took a double decker bus around the city, with the option to hop - on or hop off at various locations.

Hi — am thinking of a holiday in new york in the summer — 2 adults and 4 kids (aged 10,8,5,2)-- is it practical to get around new york — am guessing most taxis won't take 6 and is the subway practical with a 2 year old in a stroller?

Lugging around a giant bulky stroller and car seat on and off a subway is a nearly impossible task which can lead to a great deal of stress.

It shouldn't take this freakin» long to feed such an itty bitty little human being, but here I am, waiting around like I'm on a subway train to nowhere, wondering when I'll be free to carry on with my adult life.

I think parents overestimate certain risks, such as the idea of this subway trip, and underestimate others, such as the idea that your kids are safer being constantly chauffeured around in your car, when vehicular accidents are the leading cause of child death!

How is getting around the city and subways with this?

How you get around (perhaps someday a 2000 Honda CRV will seem interesting or the subway may be called something different)

Find something that's easy to fold because you don't want it to be a struggle each time you have to fold it in or out, particularly if you get around using the subway.

From 7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m., activists opposed to Cuomo's bailout of upstate nuclear plants will highlight the lack of investment in the MTA, subway stations around NYC.

As the subway system has descended into crisis, Mayor Bill de Blasio has been noticeably absent underground, opting instead for a caravan of black sport utility vehicles to travel around the city.

Before he developed the fever, Spencer traveled around the city, visiting at two restaurants, riding the subway and an Uber car, and bowling with friends at The Gutter bowling alley in Williamsburg.

If the tax is approved by New York State lawmakers, it could raise as much as $ 800 million annually, with the bulk of that, or around $ 500 million, going toward capital costs for subways and buses.

Question topics during a post-announcement Q&A included the surprise resignation of Joe Percoco, the extensive list released today of New York endorsers of Hillary Clinton and Mayor Bill de Blasio's absence from that list, whether he supports de Blasio's call for changes to bail in light of the killing of Police Officer Randolph Holder, «felony drug dealers» being offered treatment instead of jail time, dealing with homeless people in the subway and rail systems, details of his executive order extending anti-discrimination laws to transgender people, Board of Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch's departure and rules and laws around criminal defendant drug diversion programs.

[T] he income tax surcharge that Mayor de Blasio has proposed for the most financially prosperous among us, vested stakeholders in this city, and its critical infrastructure, is a plan all New Yorkers can rally around to meet the long - term needs of our subways.

They may have private cars in Hollywood (OK, here too), but these celebs know that sometimes you just can't beat the subway for getting around New York City.

The Perv Busters go around putting up posters of people wanted for sex - related crimes like flashing, groping and rape on the subway.

As Nicole Gelinas notes at length on the preceding page, there's plenty of blame to go around on the subways, going back decades.

At the same time, commuters and travelers in and around New York City are contending with delays and derailments of subways, which Gov. Andrew Cuomo has felt political heat over in the last several weeks.

«Tempers are short when you can't get on a subway car that is overcrowded, that on the subway car somebody inadvertently with a backpack swings around and ends up striking you,» Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said during the press conference at NYPD headquarters.

The new disclaimer language leaves out appointees to public authorities, which represent some of the most influential bodies in state government, including the New York Thruway Authority, the New York Power Authority and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which runs the subway, bus and commuter rail system in and around New York City.

The Republican - controlled State Senate never got around to confirming de Blasio's three appointees to the board of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which controls New York City's subways and buses.

As the supply of subways and buses vanished around Times Square, the demand for cabs increased.

For five days this month, the MTA will close a subway crossing under the East River that carries the E and M lines between Manhattan and Queens, filling it with hundreds of workers who will lay new track and fix signals around the clock.

Debris plummeting from the wall of Brooklyn subway station caused a train to derail around 5:30 a.m. this morning.

City Hall on Monday detailed what it says must be included in the governor's plan to turn around the ailing subway system, and the mayor ratched up his feud with the governor.

Police at around 7:20 a.m. responded to a reported explosion in an underground walkway connecting the subway stations at Times Square and the Port Authority Bus Terminal on the West Side, according to NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill.

The study failed to mention the city's laundry list of ongoing transportation - related issues — numerous derailments at Penn Station, its tardiness in completing $ 100 million in road projects that has caused crippling traffic around JFK and La Guardia airports, and subway delays that cost residents as much as $ 389 million a year in lost wages and productivity.

No, he would not support a proposal to create special tax districts around new subway developments.

As they were concluding their press conference Maloney and Nadler were joined by City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, who said that she arrived by subway after being delayed by heavy traffic around Trump Tower.

«While some continue to simply talk about turning the subways around, the Governor is actually working to get it done,» spokesman Peter Ajemain wrote.

«Most of us can't imagine what it's like to not be able to pay to get on the subway to go to a doctor's appointment or to go to community college or to just get around and see a family member or a friend,» he said.

Richard Ravitch, the former M.T.A. chairman credited with turning the subway around in the 1980s, said Mr. Koch helped him improve the system.