More Details Emerge About Park Slope Train Stabbing

Emil Benjamin / Via The Daily News

This past Monday there was a stabbing on a train in Park Slope. The details were vague at first -- was the man 29 or 30? Was it a G or an F train? What prompted the attack? -- but have since come together to paint a pretty fucked up picture.

30 year-old Emil Benjamin and his brother were on an F train around 9:40PM when two men approached and started hurling anti-Semitic slurs at them.

"They said, 'You're nobody, you Jewish bastard,' " Benjamin told the Daily News. 

The men then jumped Benjamin, and the pummeling spilled from the train onto the platform once the train stopped at the 4th ave/9th street station. Benjamin landed a good punch on one of the guys, at which time they fled. That's when he realized he'd been stabbed.

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The F Train Can Second As Your Personal Closet!

Live in a small Brooklyn studio with like, ZERO closet space? Need someplace to store your shit? NO FUCKING PROBLEM, NEW YORKER! Just bring your suits and boxes of family photos and anal beads'nwhatever onto the F train! Because what's ours is yours, and what you are is infuriating. 

[Thanks to FIPS reader Larissa for sending this in!]

Hey, 15th Street: You're Gettin' Yer Trains Back!

Just as the shitty weather is starting to die down (*insert angered heavens and great floods here*), 15th Street and Fort Hamilton pals, your F and G train service is a-comin' back. And there goes the last few months of getting a seat, 7th Ave.

Many thanks to our buds, The Windsor Terrace Blog, for noticing and allowing us to gratutiously swipe their photo.

UPDATE: The MTA Is Like, Fixing the Turnstiles or Something! Or Something.

On Monday, I bitched about the turnstiles at the 7th Avenue F/G stop being an inconsistent piece of crap. And wheee! You agreed that there's an ish here that's not just in my whacked-out head. So, FIPS reader Steve (you go, Steve!) decided to take action and write the Ye Olde MTA about the sitch:

Customer (Steve Pav) - 02/16/2011 02:32 PM

Why are the 2 turnstiles (they are the big ones that are like human cages) always problematic when it comes to swiping? The lines back up and everyone gets frustrated because they do not read cards well at all - can something be done about this? I have seen the cleaner there, but it rarely improves the swipe. C'mon, I now pay 104 bucks a month, last thing I want is to have more delays because of poor equipment.

Thanks

And lo! Behold! The MTA wrote Steve back in fewer than 24 hours. (You get points for this, MTA!).

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What's the Deal With the 7th Avenue F/G Stop Turnstiles?

OK, seriously, what the hell is going on with the turnstiles at the 7th Avenue stop?

I don't know about you people who enter on the 8th Ave side, but nearly every freaking morning for the last few months I--and every other commuter trying to get on a train at nine A.M. at the 7th Avenue entrance--encounter a ridiculous queue to swipe in, like thirty people deep at each gate. Some mornings the thing won't take anyone's effing MetroCard, and like 95% of us have to walk around. (Tragic, I know, save it.)

Listen, I know how to swipe a MetroCard (and before you run your mouth, you know your I-Live-Here selves get really embarrassed when you're prompted to swiped again, so save that, too), and while I know that there are some seriously turnstile-challenged residents of our humble neighborhood, this shit isn't our fault.

MTA WHAT IS THE DEAL. THE DEAL. WHAT IS IT. ANSWERS. I NEEDS THEM.

Photo: Park Slope Lens