Sentences with phrase «city subway»

While US officials say it's integral to national security, citing its use in disrupting a terrorist plot to blow up the New York City subway system in 2009, privacy rights advocates worry the law oversteps its bounds and infringes on Americans» Fourth amendment rights.

Prince Hayes has been ripping off copper wiring from the New York City subway system for more than a decade — a crime that has...

New York City subway stations in and of themselves aren't remarkable.

The Tribeca Blackout booth (which, ironically, is pure white) is one of the most striking - looking things in the venue: a gleaming, empty recreation of a New York City subway car section, complete with poles and seats.

The measure was named after Kendra Webdale, a WNY native who was killed when she was pushed in front of a New York City subway train by a man with untreated schizophrenia.

«New York City subway riders need an immediate solution to the financing gap that exists.

Miguel, who is recognized for creating works of art over New York City subway maps using Sharpie markers, started using...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo made his latest pitches to the fix the New York City subways on Thursday morning, ordering the system's power provider to step up its game.

The latest front in the ongoing feud between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio has been the question of just who is responsible for city subways, but the subway has always been a political football.

On Monday morning, while Mr. de Blasio was testifying, the Senate's Independent Democratic Conference, a group of Democrats who collaborate with the Republicans, released a survey in which they said 75 percent of city subway riders supported the city paying for half of the subway action plan.

In this striking image from his series «Subtext,» Wyatt Gallery photographs found advertising spaces in the New York City subway where advertisements have been temporarily removed — revealing torn posters, paint, graffiti, and glue applied repeatedly over decades.

«If you are into fantasy novels, here's a first novel that was written by the author on his New York City subway commute,» Schluep says explaining this pick.

One 2007 study found 60 per cent of tray tables were less sanitary than a New York City subway seat.

Two New York City subway supervisors were suspended without pay today — a day after a derailment in Manhattan that injured 34 people and was blamed on a piece of unsecured replacement track, the transit authority said.

He successfully organized New York City subway workers in the 1930s, and then secured contracts for them that — for the first time — granted them weekends off, pensions and health care coverage.

Screening devices that detect suicide vests like the one that exploded in a New York City subway tunnel are being tested in a Los Angeles transit station, but Schumer said the TSA should speed up plans to deploy the technology nationally.

Helvetica appears in numerous corporate brand logos (Nestle, Lufthansa and American Apparel, to name a few) and even on New York City subway signs.

«Free - range is not free - wheeling,» points out Free - Range Kids founder Lenore Skenazy, the American mom who caused a stir, and then started a movement, by letting her son ride the New York City subway by himself at age nine.

Renny Whitehead, winner of the Travel Photo of the Year 2013 portfolio category, tells the story of the photographs he captured in the New York City subway More

Though I've ridden the New York City subway after happy hour before, I was still a little unsure about how my balance would be on a surfboard.

Clinton sent a message of support today to a transgender woman who recorded herself being verbally assaulted on the New York City subway last Thursday.

He also said Cuomo let the New York City subways deteriorate while he instead focused on a synchronized music and light show on the city's bridges.

In L.A. he shares his house with his recently widowed father, Lewis (Al) Alcindor, a former New York City subway cop, and until this summer Kareem's son Amir, now 18, lived with them.

At 10:30 a.m., public transportation advocates from the NYPIRG Straphangers Campaign discuss the release of their annual report card ranking city subway lines based on performance statistics; City Hall station, southeast corner, Broadway and Warren Street, Manhattan.

As the New York City subway contends with one major headache after the next, every week, Politico is shining a spotlight on a project that may potentially be using funds that might better serve the ailing subway infrastructure.

Cuomo then criticized New York City, which is run by Nixon ally Mayor Bill de Blasio, for not doing enough to fix the failing city subway system.

A campaign promoting medical marijuana has popped up in New York City subway ads, the first promotion of its kind.

If the New York City subway seems more crowded than ever, there is a good reason: The MTA hasn't been able to run enough trains to keep up with a growing number of riders.

All LIRR riders will be given a free transfer during the morning rush to New York City subways at Atlantic Terminal and Hunterspoint Avenue which have direct and easy connections to multiple subway lines.

Nor does it specify how the $ 1.5 billion a year — from hefty surcharges on cars, trucks and for - hire vehicles to drive in congested areas of Manhattan — will actually be spent to improve city subways and buses.

There's also talk of imposing a new surcharge on Uber, Lyft and other ride - hailing services, with the money earmarked for New York City subway repairs and other transportation projects.

The MTA plans to shut down the New York City subway L train's East River tunnel for 18 months for repairs starting in 2019.

Yesterday, in the cathedral to mass transit known as Grand Central Terminal, four members of New York's congressional delegation joined labor leaders and M.T.A. chairman Joe Lhota to rail against a House transportation bill that would theoretically deprive the transit agency that runs city subways and buses of more than $ 1 billion a year in federal funding.

MANHATTAN — Mayor Mike Bloomberg put his foot in his mouth while rushing to reprimand a reporter who mentioned the existence of panhandling on city subways during a press conference Monday.

In January, Cuomo ordered city subways shut down ahead of a big snowstorm without giving the mayor notice; in October, the governor ordered a quarantine at city airports for health workers when Ebola struck in Africa.

That expense, first reported by Politico, comes as commuters have begged Cuomo to steer more of the state - run MTA's money toward city subways, with chronic delays wrecking commutes and endangering employment.

Over the last several months, Mr. Cuomo has been politically snakebitten by the New York City subway crisis and dogged by a series of lesser hiccups, including a late budget and an extended legislative fight over mayoral control of the city's schools.

OPENING NIGHT FILM & GALA STUCK --(USA) Director: Michael Berry An original pop musical film about six strangers who get stuck on a New York City subway together and change each other's lives in unexpected ways.

Troy, who is 300 pounds and calls himself «Fat Kid» in his internal dialogues, contemplates suicide by jumping off a New York City subway platform before he is rescued by a legendary local punk - rock musician, who helps Troy find self - confidence and see himself as a real drummer.

One image depicts the metal rungs of a New York City subway gate ensconced in condoms, a fleeting, whimsical work by the artist.

Born in Ponce, Puerto Rico in 1960 and raised in New York City, Lee Quinones is considered the single most influential artist to emerge from the New York City subway art movement.

The Astor Place stop served by the # 6 train is the closest New York City subway stop to The Cooper Union.

And if the allegedly national (but in fact LA and NYC heavy) biennial of two years back seems about as sea - to - shining - sea as a New York City subway token, we might take a cut with our «New York Parochialism» wedge and get the

Explore the New York City subway system with Pablo and Alicia as they get separated from their class while finding their way to the Empire State Building.

Heavy rainfall Monday morning turned some New York City subway stations into waterfalls.

Funding included in the recently passed state budget will allow New York City subway cars to be repaired more quickly, Cuomo said while unveiling an effort aimed at improving service for a transit system notorious for frequent breakdowns.

Using RelSci is a bit like using the New York City subway map.

New York's billionaire mayor showed ignorance of city subways saying panhandlers are few in city.