I can’t really complain, this has been one hell of a mild winter in the metro area.
But its not just the temperature and snow that gets in my craw over Winter, much more it is the lack of daylight. Specifically, the cold darkness when you go home from work every day.
There is very little that [...]

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Major changes to the StationStops.com Metro-North Schedule Pages.
First, there is a Master Metro-North Schedule Index Page. This should make things much easier for finding your station, but we suggest you bookmark your weekday outbound and inbound (to Grand Central) schedules so that you can pull up your schedule immediately, without navigating or (UGH!) filling out [...]

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25 days ago, a sweet little 7-month-old black kitten named Georgia jumped out of her carrier on the 59th st subway platform and disappeared down the tracks - much to the dismay of Bronx Librarian Ashley Phillips, 24, her owner.
Since that fateful day in January, MTA workers have made a commendable effort to find the [...]

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OK, I promise this is the last Joseph Brennan post (well, for today anyway).
Seems this guy, who has more than proven his unrelenting anal attention to detail in his documentation of the NYC Pneumatic Tube System, Abandoned NYC Subway Stations, and reviews of books he’s read which are almost as long as the book, also [...]

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Last week we kind of went off on this wild tangent related to people who live underground, including a review of the movie Dark Days, and reference to the book The Mole People: Life In The Tunnels Beneath New York City by Jennifer Toth.
Well, our new favorite NYC tunnel historian, Joseph Brennan, read the book [...]

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OK, this is officially ‘tribute to Joseph Brennan Day’ - I have been on his site the better part of the day and just cannot believe what rich content he has regarding NYC Subways - its just fantastic. In the section of his site entitled ‘Abandonded Stations‘ he has an amazing collection of photographs he [...]

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Well, it never totally came to fruition, but at one time there was indeed a proof-of-concept pneumatic tube transit system beneath the streets (well, a street) of New York City which pre-dated the modern subway.

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