In the midst of yesterday’s frenzy of Domino Sugar Refinery-themed press coverage, squished L train riders could be forgiven for asking: how much more development can Williamsburg handle? With only two tracks in a largely quad-tracked system, the L is not as well-endowed as some lines—so how much more Williamsburg can the L really take?
As it turns out, quite a bit. Read More
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TGIF, right? Sometimes you need to just take a giant nap on the floor of the subway because it’s late at night and apparently everyone else is asleep as well. OR: Another possibility is that the sleeping passengers were the only ones left after the L train went through the aurora borealis, which everyone knows from The Langoliers has the nasty side effect of erasing anyone who happens to be awake during impact. Read More
Joe Lhota just made it official on Twitter. There’s really nothing more to say. There will be a lot of crying into beers in North Brooklyn tonight—tears of joy, of course!—as almost a week without L train service comes to an end. How long before the cheering ends and the crowded misery resumes? Read More
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Enough already with the North Brooklyn bellyaching!
That seems to be the message of the MTA, which restored G trains service earlier this morning. Everyone is eagerly awaiting the resumption of the L train between Eighth Avenue and Broadway Junction, everyone meaning the unwashed masses of the city’s hipsters. The L line, which was pumped out yesterday, had the worst flooding of any subway tunnel, according to the MTA, now, to prove just how tirelessly the agency is working to get the L back up and running, here’s a video to show the work going on. Read More
Update, 11/6 11:42 a.m.: The MTA just announced that the L-train tube under 14th Street has been pumped out and “damage is currently being assessed.”
Original post: Since we have become your defacto North Brooklyn subway depot—just take a look at the Popular Stories box right now—here is the latest from those skinny-pants filled lines. According to the MTA’s evening service advisory, the Newtown Creek tunnel on the G-train has been pumped out while pumping work remains for the L.
As we previously reported, no tunnel saw more flooding than the L, which is among the reasons the MTA left it until the end of its recovery operations to pump out, because the more water, the longer it takes. Among the reasons the 4/5/6 and 2/3 were up and running so quickly is they needed minimal pumping. They also carry more people, making them, arguably a greater priority. Just don’t tell that to the people living in North Brooklyn. Read More
The people of North Brooklyn can be an entitled bunch (as a local, this reporter can personally testify to this). After all, the lights, even the Internet stayed on through most of the storm, and property damage was minimal, even for those condos cum punching bags on the waterfront. Still, standing outside in the freezing cold while one packed B62 after another blows by your stop is not a very comforting feeling. Forget getting to work, what about the hypothermia concerns the mayor has been preaching?
But fear not, now that the MTA has gotten to all the other subway lines—which to be totally fair had less flooding and/or carried more riders into the city—the L and the G are now its primary recovery focus, according to MTA spokesman Adam Lisberg. Read More
The future is here and it’s not as cool as you thought it would be. In fact, it’s very much like the past, just with more delays. We are talking of course, about the fantastically named ‘RoboTrain’ next-gen subway system.
The only current ‘RoboTrain’ in the city is the hipster-clogged L train, which the MTA has been tweaking for so many years, we’re no longer sure which came first, RoboCop or RoboTrain. Read More
An evangelizing member of the white supremicist group the National Alliance has apparently made his or her way from Hillsboro, West Virginia all the way to the L train.
“STOP IMMIGRATION!” reads the black-on-yellow sticker spotted by a reader this morning. “Non-Whites are turning America into a Third World slum. They come for welfare or take our jobs. They bring crime. They are messy, disruptive, noisy and multiply rapidly. Let’s send them home now!” Read More
Apparently the hipsters remain unmoved.
The website Animal NY posted this video of someone caught in the patriotic fervor last night who tried to engage his fellow L-train passengers in the spirited chanting of “U-S-A! U-S-A!”
“Bin Laden’s dead, anybody give a shit?” the man asks. “You’re welcome to the military and everyone who protects Read More
The Straphangers Campaign today issued its 11th annual “State of the Subways” Report card, rating the L as the best of 22 subway lines, followed by the 7. Both of these lines are participating in a management pilot program and are run by Line General Managers who have been given a greater degree of Read More
