Now that the legal bru-ha-ha between StationStops and MTA has blown over, and MTA seems to be making significant gestures to opening up their data, I want to give a very special and overdue shout-out to some great people behind the scenes who supported StationStops. First and foremost is the Brooklyn Law Incubator & Policy [...]

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UPDATE: Kent Pierce from Connecticut’s WTNH CH-8 will be interviewing me regarding my legal battle with MTA on Thursday, August 13. The interview should appear at noon and perhaps the 6 PM news as well. Thanks to my readers and app users for all the comments & emails of support. If you want to show [...]

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StationStops.com Officially Launched on December 5, 2007. Happy First Birthday! Over the past year, we have had over 430 posts, 530 comments, and over a quarter of a million unique visitors to the site. Along the way, we also added Metro-North Schedule pages, and even launched our own iPhone application – StationStops for iPhone, which [...]

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Last week, I was interviewed by phone and in person by Elizabeth Kim of the Stamford Advocate, as part of a story on Stamford-area bloggers. We were all looking forward to the story, which was published on the frontpage this morning. Unfortunately, the reporter chose to (accurately) pull a quote from me which I totally [...]

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Stamford Talk fessed up to the catalyst for her blogging career this morning, so I figured I would share mine… When I first moved to Fairfield County and started taking Metro-North (my first adult foray into regular public transportation), I was surprised at how bad Metro-North was (New Haven Line). The cars are gross. The [...]

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This is my first post from a train, taking the 8:08 from Cos Cob into the city for a birthday party. I am using the new wordpress app for the iPhone, which is great. It’s definitely harder to type on the iPhone on a moving train than a Blackberry, but it’s do-able. Anyways, I was [...]

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Update: In answer to some emails, the video was created with a Canon HG10 HD Digital Camcorder, a Canon SD870IS for the stills, edited with Pinnacle Studio 11 on Windows Vista Ultimate. A Shure SM57 Microphone was used for the voiceover narration, connected to the PC via Creative Labs X-Fi . The embedded version is [...]

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