Riverside Reader writes: I was going to write you about how annoying I find people that read over my shoulder on Metro North, but I have a new one… Vermin. I was sitting on the train in a window seat yesterday, about to fall asleep, when a cockroach marched across the wall in my direction. [...]

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This has nothing to do with anything, but I couldn’t resist the headline.

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Cheryl Madison of Bridgeport was arrested on charges of second-degree assault and second-degree breach of peace for stabbing her husband on the South Norwalk Metro-North platform Saturday night. Witnesses said the husband had been lambasting the wife for her behavior at a block party they had attended earlier, and that Madison had made a thrusting [...]

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I could not live without my Garmin Nuvi GPS unit. When I originally got it, very few people had aftermarket GPS systems – now I see them stuck on windshields all over Fairfield County. Starting with the Nuvi, GPS systems got a hell of a lot easier to use, and are now about half the [...]

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I live close enough to the Stamford Train station that I could use it to save a little time by grabbing one of its many express trains once in a while – but I don’t. First off, the exit for the Stamford Metro-North station is the *first* exit where I-95 traffic officially comes to a [...]

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StationStops reader ‘Abby’ writes of her recent horror story on Metro-North: Yesterday evening (August 11th) my elderly mother and I were traveling from Grand Central Terminal to Redding, CT. We boarded the 6:42pm train out of GCT, planning to transfer at South Norwalk for the Danbury line. The Assistant Conductor punched our tickets. He was [...]

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Smoke and fumes from a burning escalator motor at the subway station at 53rd and 7th Ave (B, D, E Lines) caused several people to go to the hospital for respiratory problems yesterday morning, and the station was evacuated. A food cart vendor near the station entrance reported seeing 10-15 people running out of the [...]

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