Brutal Mugging in New York City Subway Captured on Video

Taken at the F train station in Borough Park, Brooklyn, this video shows a man attacking a 56-year-old woman. Luckily, the victim escaped with only minor injuries.

h/t Gawker

Sax Battle on NYC Subway

Sapphire Adizes (red pants) playing sax in the subway.

New York minute.

EXIF: iPhone 5. Hipstamatic.

theatlantic:

Who Let This Man Die on the Subway?

If there’s enough time to capture a dying man’s last moments before getting hit by an oncoming train that’s that worthy of a tabloid cover, couldn’t the photographer have lent a hand?

[Image: New York Post]

streeter:

Don’t Be A Fucking Asshole on the NYC Subway
I’d like to launch an awareness campaign aimed at rude New Yorkers, written in a style they’ll understand, so that one day, maybe, they won’t be quite so shitty.
I should note that most New Yorkers are completely wonderful, caring people. It’s just that some of us seem to enjoy the “New Yorkers are assholes” thing a bit too much.

Will someone please make these signs for DC?

streeter:

Don’t Be A Fucking Asshole on the NYC Subway

I’d like to launch an awareness campaign aimed at rude New Yorkers, written in a style they’ll understand, so that one day, maybe, they won’t be quite so shitty.

I should note that most New Yorkers are completely wonderful, caring people. It’s just that some of us seem to enjoy the “New Yorkers are assholes” thing a bit too much.

Will someone please make these signs for DC?

Illustrating Craigslist Missed Connections with Characters Seen on New York City Subway

…and hopefully after they’ve stared at the poster they will look down and think about the people opposite them and if that’s a bi-product that we think warmly of our fellow travelers…that would be nice.

Amazing Subway Performer Sings Adele’s Someone Like You.

So many talented subway performers. Makes me wonder why I hear so much crap on the radio.

A Homeless Man’s Unused Subway Card Empire

NYC Subway

A fascinating story about how one homeless man earned about $20,000 over the years collecting discarded subway fares.

According to recent reports, the value of unused (in addition to lost or expired) cards amounts to roughly $52 million a year.

Continue reading at Atlantic Cities.

sfmoma:

Today is Walker Evans’s birthday. If he was alive, he’s be an incredibly wise 108 year old.

See Evans’s “Subway Passengers” SFMOMA | Explore Modern Art | Our Collection | Walker Evans | [Subway Passengers, New York])

(via npr)

marionblank:

©Walker Evans
Man in Derby
1941

[From his portraits shot in the subway between 1938 and 1941 using a hidden camera. These portraits were later collected in Many Are Called]

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