#Leak floods NYC subway station, causing transit chaos

#Leak floods NYC subway station, causing transit chaos

“#Leak floods NYC subway station, causing transit chaos” A massive Christmas morning leak on Manhattan’s Upper West Side flooded the MTA’s 81st Street subway station and shutdown multiple train lines, officials said. Train crews caught the water seeping into the station on ritzy Central Park West at around 9 a.m., the MTA said. The A…

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#Subway riders stabbed in fight with smoker

#Subway riders stabbed in fight with smoker

“#Subway riders stabbed in fight with smoker” He was apparently burning with rage. A man allegedly knifed a straphanger who’d asked him to stop smoking on the 7 train, police said. The dispute happened at about 12:50 a.m. Saturday — just before the subway shut down for overnight cleaning — onboard the train in Queens…

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#Graffiti vandals strike again at Brooklyn rail yard

#Graffiti vandals strike again at Brooklyn rail yard

“#Graffiti vandals strike again at Brooklyn rail yard” Graffiti vandals tagged a 10-car train at a Brooklyn rail yard over the weekend — the latest 1980s style assault on the Big Apple subway system. The spray-paint pirates covered the subway cars head-to-toe with large swaths of blue and yellow paint and graffiti tags, according to…

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#Berlin opens long-awaited 1.4-mile subway extension

#Berlin opens long-awaited 1.4-mile subway extension

“#Berlin opens long-awaited 1.4-mile subway extension” BERLIN — A long-awaited subway extension that tunnels under one of Berlin’s best-known boulevards and improves transport links from the German capital’s central railway station opened Friday. The 1.4-mile new section of the U5 line runs from its previous terminus at the Alexanderplatz, once Communist East Berlin’s central square,…

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