happy only in ny thanksgiving :tup:


NEW YORK - Thanksgiving is the season to share a delicious meal with others, and passengers riding an L train New York City got to be treated to a holiday meal during their evening commute this week.

Footage captured by Haylee Pentek on Tuesday shows a long table set up with an elaborate traditional Thanksgiving spread, including turkey, sweet potato, and macaroni and cheese.

"The mac and cheese was fire," Pentek said on her Tik Tok post, and told Storyful that she happened across the celebration by chance while on the L train.

According to the New York Post, the spread came from Chef Bea Kitchen, a catering service in East New York.


more:
https://www.fox5ny.com/news/video-ny...ast-on-l-train

Canarsiecopia.

ho ho ho — its nostalgia subway cars season:



MTA’s Holiday Nostalgia train rides return to the rails to ring in the 2022 holiday season

Updated: Nov. 27, 2022
By Scott R. Axelrod | For the Staten Island Advance


STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Following a 2-year hiatus, MTA New York City Transit has announced the return of its annual tradition of Holiday Nostalgia Rides on the New York Transit Museum’s vintage fleet.

In honor of the exhibit “Reign of the Redbirds,” the Holiday Nostalgia Train will feature the Train of Many Colors, which includes a selection of cars manufactured in the 1960s: the R-33, R-33WF and R-36 cars.

This year, riders will also find the train traveling along a new route. On Nov. 27, Dec. 4, 11 and 18, the Train of Many Colors will be making all local stops between Chambers Street and 137th Street to City College Street stations, from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m..

With “Tartar Red” and “Gunn Red” redbirds, Kale Green “Green Machines”, blue-and-silver “Platinum Mist” and the striking two-tone robin’s egg blue and cream “Bluebird” paint schemes, the festive Holiday Nostalgia Train represents several different eras in New York City subway history.

For just the cost of a MetroCard swipe or OMNY tap, riders can experience a chance to travel through time as they hop aboard and celebrate the magic of New York City during the holidays.


more:
https://www.silive.com/news/2022/11/...ay-season.html

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I am more interested how open gangway trains handle typical NYC bum smell. Huge advantage to the current trains is they isolate the smell (and crazies) to a single car.

thats the first thing someone said on a subtalk forum and its a point well taken.

not to mention restless crazy people, beggars and showtime going back and forth so easily.

i guess we will see once they get a few tests going.

btw the bmt trains had open gangways from 1927 until the 1960s, so its nothing new for nyc transit.

What Does Queens Need More, a New Park or a New Train Line?
A derelict rail line is being reimagined as a linear park, like Manhattan’s High Line. But in a borough that lacks both green space and transportation, locals wonder whether its best use would be the original one.

NY Times
By Winnie Hu
Nov. 26, 2022

“ As a teenager in the 1990s, Karen Imas sneaked onto some abandoned tracks in Queens with her friends. They followed the broken railroad through a sunlit forest until they could go no further.

“It felt like a hidden gem,” recalled Ms. Imas, now 45 and living near the tracks with her own children. “It was something fun and adventurous that not everyone had access to.”

The three-and-a-half-mile commuter rail line once carried passengers through central and southern Queens as part of a route down to the Rockaways before closing in 1962 amid declining ridership and service. Since then, it has become an industrial ruin, surrounded by overgrown weeds and fallen branches, hidden in the heart of New York City’s second-most populous borough...”

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/26/n...high-line.html

It frightens me to the core that this isn't just without question landbanked by the MTA for transit use. Why are we asking the public again? What's the point of authorities if we just leave it up to local dog owners to steer metro transit decisions?

Bum smell would be less of a problem if so many NYCT custodial weren't lazy half-wit bums themselves and cleaned the cars like they actually cared. You've seen these folks shuffle around with their litter scoops like they inhabit a reality that moves at half the speed of the one others live in?



Well kinda, to be fair though the Triplex's where open gangway between the 3 "car" articulated married sections, so it's not like you were looking down the aisle of a 600 foot, or even half that length of a train.

well they are actually locking up and presumably treating the repeated out of line mental health crazies again, so that's something.

at least until the aclu sues it away again:



LOCAL NEWS
Homeless advocates sound off on Mayor Eric Adams' controversial mental health plan

newyork
BY ALI BAUMAN
UPDATED ON: NOVEMBER 29, 2022


NEW YORK -- Mayor Eric Adams' plan to address mental health in the city is eliciting strong reactions from homeless advocates.

The mayor is now directing first responders and outreach workers to transport people experiencing a mental health crisis to a hospital if they are a danger to themselves or unable to meet their basic needs. Adams insists state law gives him this authority.

"We believe this is the first time that a mayoral administration has given this direction on the basic needs standard and official guidance," Adams said Tuesday.


more:
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...l-health-plan/

The decorative mosaics have been unveiled to the public in Grand Central Madison:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/30/a...oi-kusama.html

I remember that the long one was covered by plywood when I visited in October.

^ You can just google "grand central madison mosaics" to see the images behind the paywall.

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2022...isable=upscale
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2022...isable=upscale

I was told that the overall concept was "animals and nature scenes from Long Island", which doesn't lend itself to controversy.

I think the challenge for the artists was that there was no way to understand the final space because it didn't physically exist yet. The murals are 200 feet from each other so there's no way to see two or more of them at once. She attempted different treatments of space. The turkey mosaic seems like it worked the best because of the particular way depth is depicted in that one.

The non-figurative mosaics don't seem to have worked as well. They would be very large in just about any other context but in the station they seem modest. The rain showers over rocks would have looked great just about anywhere else but it's going to be ignored in the context of this station.

I can't remember the last time I saw a smelly bum that stunk up a car. I think they removed them with the change in response to homeless in the car, and the large increase in police presence in the subway too.

the cuoz chimes in on the alexandros washburn retro penn plan:



This vision for brand-new Penn Station is what NYC dreams are made of

By Steve Cuozzo
December 3, 2022


Washburn’s idea comes from a different planet.

His dream is to reflect the style and spirit of the original, beloved McKim, Mead & White masterpiece opened in 1910 that was unconscionably demolished in 1964. More than a much better station, his plan opens up optimistic possibilities for the mostly charmless West 30s between Seventh and Ninth avenues.

The original station’s colossal Concourse would be reconstructed in an airier form, as much as today’s technology allows. It puts the public — not real-estate companies — first, with an open-to-all, street-level lawn as large as Bryant Park and an exciting array of community amenities. It puts the station, the nation’s busiest with 600,000 daily users, ahead of speculative real estate development for which there is little or no demand.


see it here:
https://nypost.com/2022/12/03/this-n...s-are-made-of/

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another player in the constant battle to track your ride in real time:



New Moovit feature allows users to track public transportation in real time

By Camille Botello
Posted on December 1, 2022


New Yorkers will now be able to see where their MTA line is delayed in real time, thanks to a new feature by mobility service app Moovit. 

 Moovit users will now be able to follow their train, bus, tram, ferry, and cable car routes along the map in real-time — making it easier and more convenient for New Yorkers to get to where they need to go, according to the company. 


more:
https://www.bxtimes.com/moovit-track-transportation/

Its gotten better, but there are still a lot. Especially if you ride late nights or early mornings.

$1B on continued accessability upgrades:


MTA to spend $1 billion on subway, commuter rail accessibility upgrades

By Ben Brachfeld
Posted on November 29, 2022

more:
https://www.amny.com/transit/mta-bil...accessibility/

i wondered if mta was going to do anything with checking out hydrogen tech —

mta hydrogen bus pilot plan in the bx:


more:
https://www.amny.com/new-york/bronx/...n-buses-bronx/

^ Promising actually.

conversational seating aka manhattan seating, or many would say the ideal for subway transit, is going away for good as mta is obsessed with raising capacity -- :shrug:



'Conversational' seating to disappear on NYC subways as MTA buys new train cars

Stephen Nessen


A seating arrangement on subway cars that encourages straphangers to gaze out the window or strike up a conversation is on track to become just a memory.

The MTA’s recent $1.7 billion order of 640 “futuristic” train cars spells the end of the cars with orange and yellow plastic seats arranged in groups of twos and threes.

The cutting-edge cars, which are fancier versions of modern trains already in service, will be gradually introduced through 2028, replacing the older trains with the vintage “conversational seating” arrangement, the MTA confirmed.

The new trains have fixed benches and folding benches on both sides, as well as extra space at the end of the car with no seating at all.


more:
https://gothamist.com/news/conversat...new-train-cars

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R-211 cars


conversational seating arrangement
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ESmMK-jWkAA9wq6.jpg:large