Afternoon View - Blast Warning

Massive underground explosions continue to shake my block daily as the Second Avenue subway construction barrels on. I never hear the blast warnings but I do hear the "all clear" whistles after my furniture has stopped moving.

Morning View - The Gaga Train

Every square inch of the S train is covered with Lady Gaga. And there are four small TV screens in each car playing Born This Way on a loop.

L Train Pole Dance

No idea what's going on here. Damn hipsters.

Just Another Day On The Subway

A man having some kind of psychotic episode got naked on the 6 train while yelling racist slurs. After begging a cop to shoot him, the man attacked other passengers on the platform. And of course, instead of fleeing this clearly seriously deranged person, some folks rushed forward with their iPhones to record the entire sordid scene. Others helped the seemingly hapless police officer subdue the man. I don't know what this all says about New York City, the NYPD, the subway, social media, and the mental health care system, but it probably says something. The below clip (which includes full-frontal nudity) has, of course, gone viral and has been running (in very edited form) on NYC's news channels. NSFW in every way.

UPDATE: YouTube has pulled the clip. LiveLeak is hosting it now.

Morning View - Lexington & 63rd

Back in the cold and grime. Sigh.

No Pants Subway Ride 2011

Ben, You're Always Running Here & There

Get ready to scream.

(Via - Gothamist)

All Gay's Go To Hell

The girlfriend of JMG reader Brenda spotted the above graffiti on two MTA signs at the Canal Street station. Since the signs are locked, an inside job is suspected. But like our tipster, we are far more offended by this abuse of punctuation than by its infantile message.

Subway Flasher Arrested

After a New York woman's stand against a subway flasher went viral, making national news, today the NYPD announced that the creep has been arrested.

Police confirmed on Wednesday that Mario Valdivia, 51, of Queens, was arrested for allegedly exposing himself to a woman on a train on September 4. Valdivia faces several charges including forcible touching, public lewdness and sex abuse. The video was originally posted to ihollaback.org - a website described as 'a movement dedicated to ending street harassment using mobile technology.'

Local NYC television revealed today that Valdivia has been arrested for similar crimes in the past. Kudos to our hero of the 4 train.

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Instant Subway Hero

This subway flasher totally picked the wrong woman to mess with. From one account, it appears that the flasher had a condom on and was flashing his junk from behind his messenger bag. This guy is so busted, he doesn't even defend himself.

iPhone Subway Concert

More than 3.6M views on YouTube in just three weeks.

WASHINGTON: Rally For Sanity Smashes All-Time Metro Saturday Ridership Record

Yesterday's Rally For Sanity broke Washington's all-time record for Metro ridership on a Saturday.

By preliminary estimates, Metro recorded 825,437 Metrorail trips on Saturday. Whether it served any of those riders very well is different question. The demand for public transit to attend the Rally To Restore Sanity and/or Fear -- hosted by Comedy Central duo Stewart and Colbert -- exceeded supply. Metro customers suffered long waits at various Metro stations throughout the city. Several even suffered injuries. Nevertheless, the new record fairly shattered the old record, set on June 8, 1991, when Washington played host to a victory celebration for U.S. troops who served in the First Gulf War. That day Metro recorded 786,358 trips. A 1997 Promise Keepers rally in the District has the third-place record, with 735,909 trips.

Of course, we'll never know how many more people were turned away from using the subway (as was my group) because the cops were freaking out about how crowded the platforms were. We ended up walking the hour or so from our hotel to the Mall and it was amazing to look down the side streets and see tens of thousands of people streaming up from all directions.

RELATED: Despite the ridership count and all the other attendance reports, the Freepers are, of course, declaring that the lamestream media are conspiring to cook the head count so that Glenn Beck's rally looks smaller in comparison.

Morning View - Shawn Carter

NYC Subway Fares To Jump On Dec. 30th

The MTA has announced an expected, but fairly hefty increase in its unlimited ride cards, effective December 30th.

MTA board members approved a whopping fare hike this morning with a 12 to 2 vote -- sending the monthly MetroCard to $104 from $89 and increasing the single ride from $2.25 to $2.50 starting Dec. 30. The hike is the third in three years and comes as the MTA made massive service cuts this past June. "What's next? A surcharge for scheduled information or directions to the on-board bathroom?" said Bill Henderson, an MTA watchdog. The hike will also include reducing the bonus on the pay-per-ride cards from 15 to seven percent, and increase the amount riders need to shell out for that bonus by $2. Also, the one- and 14- day unlimited MetroCards will be eliminated, a $1 surcharge will be applied every time a rider doesn't refill an old MetroCard, and commuter railroad fares will increase by as much as 11 percent.

I no longer ride the subway often enough to warrant a monthly pass, but that $1 surcharge for new cards will help me hang on to all those cards with 25 cents left on them. Back when wearing onions on our belt was the fashion, MTA cards only came in exact multiples of the cost of a single ride.

NYC Launches Black Anti-Homophobia Poster Campaign On Subway

The "I Love My Boo" poster series launched on NYC's subway yesterday in a campaign meant to combat homophobia in the city's black communities. Examples of the posters can be seen in this clip and on this NY1 public discussion about the campaign.

Spoiler Alert

Naturally they did this on the hipster-heavy L line.

(Via - Gothamist)

Seatless Subway Cars Debut In NYC

The MTA debuted its new "seatless" subway cars on the E line yesterday, but Gothamist reports that they have not yet begun locking the seats in the closed position during rush hour, as is the eventual plan. When closed, the locked seats allow for 19% more passengers per car. The new cars also feature split poles to allow more people to hang on.

Installed By The Machine

Gothamist tips us to this cool clip of the giant tunnel-boring machine breaking through the final wall of rock to extend the 7 train out to 11th Avenue. Very sci-fi. You have to wade through a minute of Bloomberg's blah blah blah first.

Star Wars Subway Car