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Entries Tagged ‘subway’

A Million New Yorkers Are Good Without God. Are You?

Atheism ads ran on New York City buses in July, now, they’re running in the subways.

The dozen subway stations where the ads are running are:

14th Street-Sixth Avenue

14th Street-Seventh Avenue

14th Street-Eighth Avenue

23rd Street-Eighth Avenue

Pennsylvania Station (three ads)

86th Street-Lexington Avenue

96th Street-Lexington Avenue

42nd Street-Sixth Avenue/Bryant Park

66th Street-Broadway/Lincoln Center

72nd Street-Central Park West

86th Street-Central Park West

West Fourth Street

NYC Subway Robber is Bold, Brazen, and Fearless

Over the last eight months and brazen subway robber has hit 14 victims.  His main course of attack is to hit those that are preoccupied with other things.
Police said the suspect — a black man in his 20s — held up his latest victim on the “F” train in Jamaica, Queens.

The suspect targets mostly women [...]

What would New York City be like without subways?

If you’ve ever wondered what New York City would be like without its subways, look no further.  If you replaced the morning rush hour traffic with cars instead of mass transit, it would be a huge nightmare.
– from 8:00AM to 8:59 AM on an average Fall day in 2007 the NYC Subway carried 388,802 passengers [...]

Nearest Subway Augmented Reality App for iPhone 3GS from acrossair