subway

“My train is the 1 train!” To most at Columbia this observation might seem mundane. I, however, found it particularly striking only because during my last nine months as a student at the University, my train has not been the 1, but the B and C trains.

Maggie Astor reflects on her recent seven-hour ride on 22 out of New York City's 24 subway lines. Click here to read the article, Seven Hours Underground: A New York Subway Adventure.

A power failure brought trains on the 1 line to a halt in both directions between 96th and 168th streets shortly after 7 p.m. Thursday, forcing students, commuters, and tourists to either walk east to the A/C line or to take the bus instead. Service resumed at 7:50 with “residual delays.”

With a subway price hike looming, the University Senate’s Student Affairs Committee is working to protect students’ wallets.

The first subway fare increase since March 2005 may be on the horizon as two competing plans were proposed by the Metropolitan Transport Authority, which operates New York City’s public transit, last Monday.

A brawl aboard the 1 train spilled out onto the streets of Morningside Heights Wednesday afternoon, bloodying the sidewalk of one of the neighborhood’s busiest intersections and sending three teenagers to the hospital with non-life-threatening wounds.