Is the MTA Responsible For Our Littering? (No.)

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Man, do New Yorkers love to blame the MTA for everything.

Recently, the Brooklyn Paper reported that, in an effort to keep Master Splinter and his rat friends at bay, the MTA removed trash cans from the 7th ave. and 9th Street F/G subway station. Following this Great Trash Can Exodus, straphangers are now reportedly hanging on to their trash as they exit the subway station, at which time they proceed to toss that shit on the sidewalk or street.

And who's at the center of blame for this? The MTA.

Via the BK Paper:

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BREAKING: MAN STRUCK BY R TRAIN

image via @kidpretentious

Apparently, some time just after 2pm today, a man was struck (or jumped?) in front of an R train at the 4th Ave/9th Street subway station. 

He was transported to Lutheran Hospital in "serious condition."

Judging by this photo above, the NYPD was able to spare quite a few from their crack team of investigators who were luckily able to step away from their various undercover ticketing beats and/or standing around doing nothing at subway station beats, in order to respond. 

Various eyewitnesses are claiming that the dude jumped and others say he fell, so it's still unclear wtf went down. R train service was being suspended while the investigation was onging, but who knows how long that will last. 

Hope the dude ends up ok (also happy Friday night commute home, folks).

(via Gothamist)

Perverted House Husband Trolls The Park Slope Subz!

Reasons To Fear The Subway:

1. Bed Bugs
2. Death by rat king
3. Being masturbated on
4. Accidentally sitting in a pee-filled seat (totally happened to me)
5. Lecherous pervs snapping pics of your cleave.

That’s right single ladies, there’s a depressed Park Slope hubby wandering around the subway with a wedding ring, and he wants to get off on your boobs. Check out this alert from Urban Baby:

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WHO GIVES A SHIT: Do You Hate Traveling To The Motherfucking Suburbs As Much As I Do?

I'm gonna go out on limb here and make some predictions:

• Many of you have relatives that live in Connecticut, New Jersey, or Long Island.
• These relatives want you to come and visit them ALL THE MOTHER HUMPIN TIME
• These relatives also think that it's no biggie to come visit them ALL THE MOTHER HUMPIN TIME cause there are "easy" public transportation choices available to you! Yay! Take a train! Take a bus! Take the subway, to the train, to a bus, to a car!

Here's the thing, suburban ppl: most of the time, these trips are a TOTAL FUCKING NIGHTMARE.

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The Nevins Street Hotspot

IMAGE VIA PARK SLOPE LENS

For those of you who regularly ride the 2/3 train, I KNOW you know what I'm talkin about: upon pulling into Nevins Street subway station, you have approx 30 seconds to 1 minute of a 4 bar, full throttle, bangin cell phone connection (at least with AT&T). It's like magic, right?

For those of you who don't know: a. get a clue; b. welcome to world of rogue subway communication.

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