Subways are for sleeping: NYC Transit survival thread

unpleasant for me

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/05/f-train-express-coming-this-summer.html

not too bad for me out in Little Ukraine

tho i'd prefer to get the hell out

https://www.facebook.com/NewYorkFingCity/photos/a.384422408343161.1073741826.384405841678151/974708332647896/

well after that shitty commute i am going to hatefuck a tunnel on my way home

So I got my motorcycle permit for my 40th birthday, and have been riding my scooter to school every day that it doesn't rain. Sorry, MTA! (No fucks were actually given in the making of this awesome decision.)

Nice, I used to commute to work by scooter from Astoria to the Flatiron district. Loved that ride.

Be careful with just your permit though -- periodically mc/scooter "safety" checkpoints are set up around the city and they'll impound your scooter if they catch you without a mc license (they also check for inspection sticker and current plate registration sticker). I often got pulled over on 2nd Ave just south of the Queensboro Bridge.

Due to an unruly passenger at York St, southbound F trains are running with delays.

Allow additional travel time.

F/G have been fucked for weeks

we all need to get unruly

i'm inclined to agree with you. i predict a riot.

what with the recent "three men save a guy who fell on the tracks" feelgood video making the rounds, i am sorta grumpy that i can't work in "heck _I_ did that" into conversation anywhere but ilx.

Q train ~= bad blowjob

not perfect but still pretty cool?

sloppy, takes forever

https://cwhong.carto.com/viz/6dfca01c-47e5-11e6-9fd3-0ee66e2c9693/public_map

^^^ very cool. Would love to see it incorporate population density somehow, so you can really see where people are underserved... though I guess there are other maps for that.

I think 15 min walk is still pretty reasonable but maybe I'm thinking too much in young healthy person terms.

it seems insane to me that according to that map I am in a subway desert

10 minutes isn't that much. i could hit a passing M train with a tomato from my window and it still takes 5-6 minutes to walk to the station.

Fifteen minutes can be a long time with regards to physical safety, depending on your situation in life. Plus, adding thirty minutes round-trip to a daily commute, over a lifetime, is a lot of lost time with the family, sleeping, etc. Hours a week! We build transit systems in the hope of enhancing everybody's quality of life so it all seems reasonable to me. But maybe it's also something that transit types have come to a consensus on as a good number.

3rs Street & 7th Ave in Park Slope is in a "desert."

15 minutes seems forever during a heat wave

NEW YORK - The MTA is reporting systemwide subway delays in Manhattan due to power issues.

Spokesman Kevin Ortiz says the electrical problems started around 1 p.m. Wednesday at the system’s rail control center. Backup power was being used.

Ortiz said there were no reports of stranded passengers. He says the trains were moving, but with delays.

WCBS Newsradio 880 reported around 2 p.m. that electricity was back on at the control center but residual delays continued.

NYC Transit on the 1 2 3 4 5 6 has resumed with residual delays due to earlier signal problems.We apologize for any inconvenience. Monitor Service Status on this page or follow @NYCTSubway for the latest updates.

http://i.imgur.com/7U6B6Lf.jpg

http://gothamist.com/2016/07/22/one_poop_train_uniting_all.php

i don't get this 'critique' at all

That's not how smells work

Although that is a classically New York bit of complaining while lacking basic understanding about facts of the physical world.

some new yorkers really do think the 20th century was as good as it got for industrial design and mass transit huh?

Yes

Combined with a New York transit exceptionalism that Second Avenue Sagas often points out... where whatever idea gets proposed, no matter how many other systems have it, it'll never work in New York, usually because the population here is comprised largely of destructive maniacs who will smash anything useful to pieces with chains and crowbars, and then become homeless and go to sleep (heaven forfend). No other city on the planet has any similar constellation of problems.

We must not let them sleep. Dear god no.

why does it take 7 hours to get to gowanus from union square

i sorta wish i had a car tbh

booming post doctor

At the moment I am wishing there was a bus running down the west side hway to gwich village

I'm sure I've complained about it before ITT, but it's still galling how hard it is to get anywhere other than Midtown Manhattan or the handful of Queens neighborhoods on my subway line from where I live, especially to Brooklyn neighborhoods that are like 10 mins drive away.

yeah and going into the city just to change trains and head right back out is very draining somehow

One of my pipe dream ideas is to make the M a loop -- it doesn't seem like you'd have to add that much tunnel to get from the Middle Village stop to the Forest Hills stop. Then you'd have easier access from eastern queens to Williamsburg/Bushwick. Not sure if there's a logical place for a stop in between those two points -- I think a lot of it is graveyards and single-family houses.

An M stop inside one of those necropolises would fucking rule

i live on the bushwick end of the M and fantasize about that weekly--i would love to loop around to elmhurst/jackson heights/etc. as it stands one can train to middle village and take a bus, there's some cool stuff on woodhaven blvd!

what do you like on woodhaven blvd, incidentally?

Be careful with just your permit though -- periodically mc/scooter "safety" checkpoints are set up around the city and they'll impound your scooter if they catch you without a mc license (they also check for inspection sticker and current plate registration sticker). I often got pulled over on 2nd Ave just south of the Queensboro Bridge.

― early rejecter, Tuesday, May 31, 2016 5:09 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Funnily enough I got pulled over at a random motorcycle checkpoint crossing from the Bronx into Manhattan maybe 10 days after I got the bike, and I had neither my license NOR an inspection at that point and they let me go! No mention of either. I can only assume I was not who they were looking for.

there's a very good kosher uzbek place called taste of samarkand around 62nd dr, in a strip with some peruvian and thai joints. a few blocks south there's an array of impressively wood-paneled bars and restaurants that i haven't been back to check out yet. my wife (and her dad) grew up going to eddie's sweet shop a few blocks east of woodhaven.

i make no claims to expertise in that neighborhood--you found anything good over there?

i have long wanted to go to andre's hungarian bakery but haven't made it yet

RIP L train

Andre's bakery is right by where I live, like two blocks walk. They have great rugelach, which is one of my favorite things. A little further west on QB there's Ben's Best, a semi-famous kosher deli with good pastrami, and a nice Russian supermarket called Net Cost. There's also now a good coffee place with decent food called Roast'N'Co right by where Andre's is. Not worth a trek but good coffee if you're in the area already.

Eddie's Sweet Shop is neat for a visit just to take in the olde-fashioned-ness of it, but I don't actually think their ice cream is all that good - too sweet. And the service tends to be really bad. I haven't tried a lot of places specifically on Woodhaven. Generally I'm a bit down on the food options in Forest Hills. There was a really good Lebanese place on Metropolitan called Wafa's and it closed. We had what was for a while Queens's only Michelin-starred restaurant, Danny Brown, and that closed too. There's good turkish on Metropolitan called Taci's, and there's a very good Italian place called La Vigna -- on the conservative end but very high quality.

We love Nick's Pizza, which is closer to the Kew Gardens end. We eat a lot at Bareburger because we have little kids and it's the easiest decent place to go with them.

My bf lives in Glendale, roughly, and we struggle to find good local restaurants. Everywhere we go, even when choosing a spot based on good reviews, turns out to be kind of crappy. I need to take this thread's advice more (also we probably need to leave Glendale to eat).

Have you done Zum Stammtisch? Never been but it's sort of a destination. Glendale also has the Finback Brewery which I've wanted to try. Their beer was at the Tennis Stadium and it was really good.

Generally I find there's a kind of online review inflation in the area. Our friends in the area always say "is it good or Forest Hills good?" Anyway we should probably take this to the Queens thread

I wonder what (if any) effect the L shutdown will have on rent/real estate prices in wburg