I love the subway. Hey, stop your bitching… it’s great. I wouldn’t swap it for any other subway in the world. And yet, it sure can be frustrating, especially at night. Now before I start bitching, let me say we should be grateful. Our subway is one of the only systems in the world that…
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Would anybody be interested in officially welcoming the Q train to Astoria? It might be fun. The Q runs to Ditmars starting the 27th. I know it’s been there a few times for a visit, but now it’s ours for real (The W is already dead to me). One of the dirty secrets of the…
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I rode the train yesterday and like the new subway map! At least ascetically. All the bus boxes gone (nobody uses those, right?). Soothing colors (or “recession color,” as my partner-in-victimhood said, disparagingly). And the M train is orange and goes to Queens… Craaaazy!!! But here’s what’s weird… the MTA has no night map. What…
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Check out this cartoon. It’s in Spanish, which I don’t speak. But here’s a translation: This is that Mexican cartoon I like: “Retro Squad.” This one features our hero, the Atari joystick, but there’s also a rubik’s cube and a can of Tab. Here we see the joystick’s car breaking down–he’s cursing and saying his…
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