NYC Subway

Commuters looking to head home Monday evening were warned to avoid the “B” train line, where service was temporarily suspended in both directions citywide after 5 p.m. The MTA had advised passengers to take the C/D/Q trains instead. “We are addressing a signal problem at Coney Island-Stillwell Av.,” the MTA said on social media at the time. B service...

Some subway station benches in NYC are being replaced by a new contraption: leaning bars. The new features have popping up on some subway platforms. The MTA says it will save money, but is it also an effort to keep homeless people from sleeping on benches? NBC New York’s Marc Santia reports.

The MetroCard is getting closer to taking its last ride. The MTA said it will stop selling the pieces of plastic at the end of 2025, after having been used by subway and bus riders since 1993. But more people are tossing them and using Tap and Go instead. So when will they go away for good? NBC New York’s...

There are new additions at the West 4th Street-Washington Square subway station — and not all riders are leaning into the pilot program. For those waiting for an A, C or E train, you can stand or you can lean at the Greenwich Village stop. But you won’t be sitting. The MTA has removed the old benches, except for a…

While New York transit officials point to publicly available statistics showing major crime on the subway system is trending down this year, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy noted “a number of high-profile safety related incidents” in a letter sent to the head of the MTA.

The Metropolitan Transit Authority will stop selling and refilling those formerly-ubiquitous MetroCards by the end of the year in favor of the OMNY system, MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber told Crain’s New York Business Wednesday. MetroCards have been around since 1994, but now seem destined to go the way of the subway token, which stopped being used in 2003….

Tracie Strahan reporting on MTA could lose federal funding over subway safety.

No. 7 train service is facing delays Thursday afternoon after a person was struck by a train in Corona, according to MTA officials. Trains are running with ‘severe’ delays in both directions, the MTA said. Hudson Yards-bound 7 trains are running express service from Flushing-Main St to 74 St-Broadway. Some Flushing-bound 7 trains are ended at Queensboro Plaza. Hudson Yards-bound…

A suspect has been arrested after allegedly punching a seven-months pregnant woman in the face while riding the subway in Queens, police said.

A seven-months pregnant woman was punched in the face by a stranger as she used her phone on a subway in Queens last week, police and law enforcement sources say. The woman was on a southbound J train at the time of the rush hour attack on Feb. 25 at the Jamaica Center–Parsons/Archer station. Police say it was unprovoked....

A subway rider was bitten and stabbed while riding the train in Brooklyn, according to police. The victim, a 58-year-old man, was riding a Manhattan-bound L train when he was attacked around 3 p.m. near the Graham Avenue station in Williamsburg, police said.

Melissa Colorado reports for NBC New York from the Myrtle Avenue station in Brooklyn.  

Renting in New York City is tough, with so many factors to consider: Price, neighborhood, and of course, proximity to a subway. For one Brooklyn man, he’s not just living a block away from a subway station. He’s living feet from it.

A packed train in Manhattan quickly turned into a delivery room and straphangers became midwives, as riders banded together to deliver a baby when the mother went into labor while aboard the subway.

A new mom is recovering in the hospital after having her baby on a subway train. The northnound W train in Manhattan turned into a delivery room for the 25-year-old woman who was reported missing months ago by her family in Florida. NBC New York’s Melissa Colorado reports.

A pregnant woman gave birth while on a subway train in Manhattan, according to officials.

A pregnant woman gave birth while on a subway train in Manhattan, according to officials.

A woman was slashed during the Monday evening commute inside an Upper East Side subway station, according to the NYPD. The 28-year-old victim was slashed in the face at the 86th Street subway station near Lexington Avenue, police said. The attack happened around 6:25 p.m. Police said they received a report of an assault and upon arriving, found the victim….

Authorities are investigating the death of a man whose body was found on a No. 1 train in Times Square Sunday, according to police. The NYPD says the man is thought to be between the ages of 60 and 70. He has not been identified. No criminality is suspected at this time. Delays were reported in the area as authorities…

A man who survived being shoved onto subway tracks ahead of an oncoming train in New York City says that in spite of the trauma, he eventually plans to make his way back to the train.