Please Folks – Point To, Don’t Rub, The Subway Maps
March 18th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: New York Subways
Blind Newsstand Operator Killed after Falling Onto Croton-Harmon Tracks
March 18th, 2008 · No Comments
Trainjotting really put it best when they wrote “This is just awful in every way”. This morning at 8:31 Teresa Fiorentino, 75, of Croton-On-Hudson, was stuck and killed by an Amtrack train after falling onto the tracks while having a cigarette at the Croton-Harmon station. Teresa was legally blind and operated a newsstand over the [...]
Tags: Commuting Horror Stories · Metro-North · Safety and Accidents · Trains
Photographer Harrassed By MTA Employee For Taking Pictures at Grand Central
March 18th, 2008 · 12 Comments
One of the unfortunate and completely unnecessary side effects of 9/11 is that a *lot* of photographers get hassled by security workers, doormen, and – almost especially – MTA personnel. Its not an entirely new issue, its just that 9/11 made it a hell of a lot worse, creating this overreaching pretense that any photographer [...]
Tags: Grand Central Terminal · MTA · Terrorism · Trains