The New York Daily News goes underground to check out progress on the Second Avenue Subway line. It’s set to open in 2016.
Tracks
Five. Five dollar. Five dollar lawsuit.
A 30-year-old man confessed today to being the subway psycho who “launched” an innocent straphanger into tracks, where he was killed by an oncoming Q train, law enforcement sources told The Post.
The suspect, Nieem Davis, was being questioned today in Manhattan, in connection to the grisly death of Ki Suk Han, 58, yesterday afternoon. The man was picked up on 50th Street near Seventh Avenue by a transit police captain, who was on a coffee break at 1:30 p.m. and ran over to grab him.
Davis confessed to shoving Han into tracks, though he’s not been formally charged yet, law enforcement sources said.
Han, of Elmhurst, Queens, desperately tried to scramble back to the platform as onlookers screamed, shouted and frantically waved their hands and bags in a bid to get the downtown Q train to stop at around 12:30 p.m.
DIG DUG A laborer caulks joints with lead to make them waterproof during the construction of New York City’s 6th Avenue subway tunnel in 1939. Click through for the New York Daily News’s gallery of vintage photos documenting the construction of New York’s subway system. (Photo: Bob Seelig / NYDN)
Who says there are no more great public works projects? Here’s the new, 1,200-foot-long subway station of the 7 line extension beneath West 34th Street in Manhattan. Gothamist’s Jake Dobkin got an awesome sneak peek which you simply must see now.
Gotta love NYC. If I saw her at 9:45 a.m. how early do you think she had to wake up to get that thing ready?
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THIS IS AMAZING
Wow, I took this picture almost exactly a year ago (August 24th). Never expected to see it on my dash again. LOL.
It’s a work of follicular art.
Half full. 34th St. Subway station, Manhattan.
WINTER UNDERLAND Icicles form inside a subway station in Brooklyn. (Photo: Earl Wilson / The New York Times)
Crowded house. Manhattan.
DIG IT “Sandhogs” pose in front of large drill bit after completing a tunnel through Manhattan schist about 40 feet beneath ground level. Two new tunnels will allow the No. 7 NYC Subway train to connect to a new station at 11th Avenue and 34th Street: the project, expected to be completed in 2013, will cost $2.1 billion. (Photo: Chad Rachman / New York Post; go here for the full gallery)
They jump two feet from a running start; they can fall 40 feet onto a concrete slab and keep running. We’re no match for them, as far as I’m concerned. Man does not stand no chance.
SOLOMON PEEPLES, a former director of the city’s Bureau of Pest Control Services, using the double-negative as only a New Yorker can in describing the rodent infestation problem in the City’s subway system.
A two-year study shows that rats are more likely to be found behind subway station walls, instead of living in train tunnels; not surprisingly, the study blames people’s propensity for eating on the subway - and the subsequent trash they generate - for the rat problem.
Still hungry?
NY TIMES: Two suicide bombers kill 35 in separate attacks on Moscow Metro
Female suicide bombers set off huge explosions during rush hour Monday morning in two subway stations in central Moscow, officials said, killing at least 35 people and raising fears that the Muslim insurgency in southern Russia was once again being brought to the country’s heart.
The first attack occurred as commuters were exiting a packed train at the Lubyanka station, which is near the headquarters of the F.S.B., the successor to the Soviet-era K.G.B. Officials said they suspected that the attack there was intended as a message to the security services, which have helped lead the crackdown on Islamic extremism in Chechnya and other parts of the Caucasus region in southern Russia.
The two explosions spread panic throughout the capital as people searched for missing relatives and friends, and the authorities tried to determine whether more attacks were planned. The subway system, known as the Metro, is one of the world’s most extensive and well-managed, and it serves as a vital artery for Moscow’s commuters, carrying as many as 10 million people a day.
“The terrorist acts were carried out by two female terrorist bombers,” said Moscow’s mayor, Yuri M. Luzhkov. “They happened at a time when there would be the maximum number of victims.”
Mr. Luzhkov said 23 people were killed in the first explosion, at the Lubyanka station, and 12 people were killed 40 minutes later in a blast at the Park Kultury station. Dozens were injured.
Screengrabs from Russian TV showing the scene from one of the twin subway bombings in Moscow earlier today. The first blast went off at around 7:50 AM Moscow time. At least 37 people were reported killed.
Where I was.
