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Brooklyn Designer Sells NYC Subway Signs

(Nov. 19) -- Trevor MacDermid's office is tucked into an industrial area along the Brooklyn waterfront, but he might be the only New Yorker who can claim his desk is just steps from Times Square, Grand Central Station, Yankee Stadium and Coney Island. MacDermid is the man behind Underground Signs, the only licensed...

New York City Subway Wi-Fi Plan Resumed; New Yorkers Already Complaining

(July 30) -- For those avid underground commuters in New York fed up with awkward stares and silences, too tired to read a book or suddenly uninterested in all 1,000-plus tracks downloaded onto the iPhone you boarded with, relief is coming: Wi-Fi on a subway near you! Bloomberg reports the $200 million plan gives Transit...

Feds Charge 5, Link NY Plot to al-Qaida Scheme in UK

(July 7) -- Last year's foiled plot to attack New York City's subway system was tied to a similar al-Qaida plot in the United Kingdom, a Justice Department indictment charges. The indictment, unsealed at the U.S. Attorney's Office in New York City today, says that al-Qaida's "external operations" program in Pakistan...

Background on new york city subway

The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system owned by the City of New York and leased to the New York City Transit Authority, a subsidiary agency of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

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