http://nymag.com/news/features/traffic-2012-12/
― iatee, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 15:13 (eleven years ago) link
http://instagr.am/p/Svx4vsv0MU/
― 乒乓, Sunday, 2 December 2012 19:58 (eleven years ago) link
^^ what was going on here?
― 乒乓, Sunday, 2 December 2012 19:59 (eleven years ago) link
o
http://www.mta.info/metrocard/promos/Vintagetrain/index.html
thnak u for holding up the F train
― 乒乓, Sunday, 2 December 2012 20:03 (eleven years ago) link
a friend invited me to that but I'm in new haven
― iatee, Sunday, 2 December 2012 20:04 (eleven years ago) link
the people on it looked pretty sad
― 乒乓, Sunday, 2 December 2012 20:05 (eleven years ago) link
in fact I think the S stands for sad train
they were probably just being nostalgic sometimes that looks like sad
― iatee, Sunday, 2 December 2012 20:06 (eleven years ago) link
heyyyyyy still no PATH after ten PM what the fuck america
― (alternatively, “Respec’”) (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 2 December 2012 21:24 (eleven years ago) link
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/03/man-pushed-in-front-of-midtown-subway-train-witnesses-say/
― iatee, Monday, 3 December 2012 21:40 (eleven years ago) link
so grim :(
― ༼ ༎ຶ ෴ ༎ຶ༽ kma (cozen), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 19:52 (eleven years ago) link
the NY Post really went for it with that cover today huh
― dmr, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 20:05 (eleven years ago) link
yeah I can't believe they did that
― SHUT UP AND GET YOUR TURKEY SCIENCE BOOKS (Austerity Ponies), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 20:14 (eleven years ago) link
Post freelance photographer R. Umar Abbasi — who had been waiting on the platform of the 49th Street station — ran toward the train, repeatedly firing off his flash to warn the operator.“I just started running, running, hoping that the driver could see my flash,” said Abbasi, whose camera captured chilling shots of Suk’s tragic fight for his life.The train slowed, but a dazed and bruised Han still wound up hopelessly caught between it and the platform as it came to a halt.A shaken Abbasi said the train “crushed him like a rag doll.”
“I just started running, running, hoping that the driver could see my flash,” said Abbasi, whose camera captured chilling shots of Suk’s tragic fight for his life.
The train slowed, but a dazed and bruised Han still wound up hopelessly caught between it and the platform as it came to a halt.
A shaken Abbasi said the train “crushed him like a rag doll.”
holy shit how is this even real
― jawn valjawn (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 08:07 (eleven years ago) link
might as well just say that the using-the-flash-to-get-the-operator's-attention explanation sounds like total bullshit. there's no way the operator wouldn't have seen the man on the tracks, and there's no way having a flash fired at him would clarify anything about the situation/alerted him to anything he didn't know, etc.
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 14:16 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, I don't think he needed to give that bullshit explanation. otoh I don't think he necessarily did anything wrong.
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 14:22 (eleven years ago) link
whether it was right or wrong to take the picture depends on a lot of things I have no way of knowing, but the explanation stinks of some kind of ugly guilt & justification attempt and is ridiculously implausible. doesn't cast the guy in a good light.
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 14:38 (eleven years ago) link
and I get it that a photojournalist will operate on the principle that you shoot first and evaluate later, and I'm not impressed with the evaluation the guy made that suggested to him that he should sell the photo to the Post.
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 14:40 (eleven years ago) link
he was a NYPost photographer iirc
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 14:41 (eleven years ago) link
In all news reports he's referred to as a freelance photographer, who had been working on a contracted job for the post earlier in the day.
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 14:52 (eleven years ago) link
unless I misunderstand how the freelance photojournalism world works, I think he would have still had to sell the photo to the post if it wasn't for the assignment he'd been contracted for? I could be totally wrong about that though.
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 14:53 (eleven years ago) link
posts in the grand tradition of [stated fact] + [I might not know what I'm talking about]
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 14:54 (eleven years ago) link
yeah I mean I have no idea what the terms of his contract was, like which specific photos he takes on a freelance contract are the property of the post or not. the post was definitely tremendously, egregiously wrong in publishing the photos, but I don't know if the act of taking the photos itself (regardless of what he did with them afterwards) was necessarily wrong.
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 14:56 (eleven years ago) link
It is probably the case everyone who associates with the NY Post ends up with a mark or stain that they can't remove.
― SHUT UP AND GET YOUR TURKEY SCIENCE BOOKS (Austerity Ponies), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 14:57 (eleven years ago) link
Or maybe they just feel like their hands are always covered in filth or blood.
http://ginavergel.com/2012/12/04/advice-should-you-ever-fall-or-get-pushed-into-the-subway-tracks/
― (alternatively, “Respec’”) (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 18:44 (eleven years ago) link
http://secondavenuesagas.com/2012/12/18/report-mta-chairman-lhota-to-resign-on-friday/
― iatee, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 03:09 (eleven years ago) link
hahah leave before the fare hike, perfect
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 03:11 (eleven years ago) link
fare hike was gonna happen even before he came into office
― iatee, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 03:13 (eleven years ago) link
sure but it's good politics regardless
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 03:14 (eleven years ago) link
no idea what his campaign/platform will look like but if its him vs quinn I might vote for him. don't think he has a chance regardless.
― iatee, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 03:14 (eleven years ago) link
^ A Giuliani deputy mayor?!? Are u outta yr fuggin mind???
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 27 December 2012 02:26 (eleven years ago) link
he's prob gonna be more progressive than Quinn on lotsa stuff and w/o a doubt on transportation
not voting for him yet cause who knows how he's actually gonna run this
― iatee, Thursday, 27 December 2012 03:09 (eleven years ago) link
http://gothamist.com/2012/12/27/man_fatally_struck_by_7_train_in_qu.php
my train! my stop!
― iatee, Friday, 28 December 2012 03:34 (eleven years ago) link
btw f the airtrain
― mookieproof, Friday, 28 December 2012 03:39 (eleven years ago) link
Subways are for killing
― buzza, Friday, 28 December 2012 03:45 (eleven years ago) link
buzzas are for reviving
― mookieproof, Friday, 28 December 2012 03:51 (eleven years ago) link
ahhh this bothers me greatly
― iatee, Friday, 28 December 2012 04:01 (eleven years ago) link
By 10:30, the victim’s mangled body had not been removed from the tracks.
“I heard the train screech as it was stopping and then heard this loud scream,” said Linda Santini-Tripodis, the owner of Merit Group & Associates, who was beneath the 40th Street station at the time.
“I’m never going to forget that scream for as long as I live,” Santini-Tripodis said.
― iatee, Friday, 28 December 2012 04:02 (eleven years ago) link
Lordy.
― Albee Thousand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 28 December 2012 04:15 (eleven years ago) link
it would be cool if the MTA got a billion zillion dollars and could install platform doors in all their stations
http://i.imgur.com/ZI9ez.jpg
― 乒乓, Friday, 28 December 2012 12:56 (eleven years ago) link
lotsa cops and news vans here
fewer people on the yellow line
― iatee, Friday, 28 December 2012 13:44 (eleven years ago) link
in other news
http://secondavenuesagas.com/2012/12/28/real-time-subway-location-data-theres-an-app-for-that/
― iatee, Friday, 28 December 2012 13:48 (eleven years ago) link
I know I mentioned it before, but I'm sticking to the center columns on platforms from now on.
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Friday, 28 December 2012 14:14 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/video/2012/12/28/nyregion/100000001977924/suspect-in-subway-killing.html
― iatee, Friday, 28 December 2012 17:11 (eleven years ago) link
chinavision OTM.
― Q-Tip—blessed Q-Tip! (Jon Lewis), Friday, 28 December 2012 17:33 (eleven years ago) link
http://sunnysidepost.com/2012/12/29/woman-in-custody-following-subway-murder/
― iatee, Saturday, 29 December 2012 18:56 (eleven years ago) link
Iirc don't like 100 ppl die from getting struck by MTA trains every year? Is it just now being widely reported bcz of sensationalism?
― nicki mINOJ (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 29 December 2012 20:39 (eleven years ago) link
almost none of those are homicides
― iatee, Saturday, 29 December 2012 20:44 (eleven years ago) link
A 31-year-old woman will be charged with second-degree murder as a hate crime, according to a source within the Queens district attorney’s office.
The woman, Erica Menendez of the Bronx, is in custody after making statements that implicated herself in the death of Sunando Sen on Thursday night.
The New York Times reported that a law enforcement official said that Ms. Menendez had “told the cops it was an act against Muslims,” and cited the Sept. 11 attacks. The victim, Sunando Sen, was born in India and, according to a roommate, was raised Hindu.
― iatee, Saturday, 29 December 2012 23:02 (eleven years ago) link