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Photo: Getty “This is a nutcase who is addicted to fucking with the trains.” That was how one MTA New York City Transit source with knowledge of the situation described the latest curiosity to befall the city’s beleaguered subway. Someone—no one really knows who—has been disrupting the train system, sneaking into cabs, pulling the emergency brakes,…
The Unsuck D.C. Metro blog and social media account began a decade ago as one of the few ways that residents could learn about delays and other issues on the WMATA rail system. “You’d find problems on the rail faster on his account than by following Metro’s official account,” says Martin Di Caro, a former…
We had a town house, but we weren’t allowed to touch it. I had to be lifted up by the armpits to peer inside. The brick façade appeared to be cut from a single sheet, but, if you looked closely, you could see how my father had smeared cement onto miniature bricks with a butter…
meta: bylines, bios, shares, tip The New York Daily News reports that next week, Mayor Bill de Blasio intends to announce he’s going to stuff his incredibly tall and awkward frame into the already-far-beyond-overloaded clown car of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary. When I was a tiny child and there were no safety rules in…
ImageA bike-share cemetery in Wangqingtuo, China. The town has benefited from the boom in bike-share companies like Ofo and Mobike but is now littered with its discards. Credit Gilles Sabrié for The New York Times Bike-sharing start-ups brought prosperity to Wangqingtuo. Now residents are dealing with the mess they left behind. WANGQINGTUO, China —…
A series of explosions ripped through the island nation of Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, killing 207 people and injuring at least 450 in the worst terrorist attacks since a lengthy civil war ended a decade ago. Eight bombs exploded, several of them detonated by suicide bombers, at luxury hotels, churches, and other locations. In…
Twitter has suspended dozens of suspicious Hebrew-language accounts run by a controversial Chinese religious group ahead of Israel’s national elections, BuzzFeed News has learned. It’s at least the second such suspension in the run-up to the elections, but the company is saying little about what actions it took or why. Nor is it clear what…
ImageNowhere to go but down: Making room for an in-ground pool at 48-50 West 69th Street in Manhattan.CreditCreditBenjamin Norman for The New York Times The extremely loud and incredibly expensive renovations that have shattered a formerly quiet residential block in Manhattan. Nowhere to go but down: Making room for an in-ground pool at 48-50 West…
Luxury retailer Barneys New York just got a lifeline. The retailer has extended the term of its credit line by $50 million, giving it money for growth, as well as needed liquidity to weather industry challenges and a rent hike at its famed New York flagship, people familiar with the talks told CNBC. Rent at…
The International Space Station Image: NASA/Roscosmos India’s first successful test of an anti-satellite weapon has produced an orbiting debris field consisting of at least 400 pieces, according to NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine. This debris now threatens the ISS, he said, calling India’s actions “not compatible with the future of human spaceflight.” Bridenstine made the comments…