A crash that killed a 49-year old city bus driver on the West Side last week is hitting a Lower East Side family very hard. You may have seen the stories; William Pena was killed early last Wednesday morning...
Local elected officials gathered with community activists today outside the East Broadway subway station to tell the MTA -- "enough is enough." In recent months, residents have become increasingly frustrated as the MTA has repeatedly failed to reopen the...
In recent weeks, we've been fielding a number of questions from readers about the long-delayed escalator replacement project inside the East Broadway subway station. In August of 2012, The Lo-Down reported that the narrow, creaky relic was being ripped...
Over the past few days, commuters at the East Broadway station on the F line learned they’d be climbing more stairs in the next 10 months. According to signs posted throughout the station, the escalator that runs up from...
Good news for those who take the bus downtown: the M9, which travels through the Lower East Side and Chinatown before terminating at City Hall, may be moving even further south in 2013. According to a press release today...
The Metropolitan Transit Authority and the NYC Economic Development Corp. have issued a "request for proposals" (RFP's) for seven sites that the "MTA no longer requires for the transit network." The properties include 19 East Houston Street in Soho,...
There's been a lot of talk this year about "The Delancey Underground," the subterranean park James Ramsey and Dan Barasch want to build in the old trolley station below Delancey Street. Recently, Barasch joined the founders of The High...
If there was any doubt that the MTA is intent on reactivating the abandoned trolley terminal below Delancey Street, this video will put an end to that. Posted on YouTube about a week ago and by 2nd Ave. Sagas...
Two months ago, James Ramsey and Dan Barasch went public with their bold proposal to transform an abandoned train station below Delancey Street into a beautiful subterranean park. There was a blizzard of media coverage back then -- including...
We've received several eyewitness reports about police officers and firefighters responding to an incident at the Delancey/Essex MTA station around 8 p.m. yesterday. ANIMAL reported shortly after 9 p.m. that a female passenger fell or jumped from the platform onto the tracks...
