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Updated New York Subway Car Design Proposals Aim To Minimise Stranger Danger

It might be time for new subway cars in the Big Apple, and the New York Transit Authority wants to do it right. So they sent a group of researchers into the subways to stare at straphangers over three weeks and make everyone super uncomfortable. Plus gather data or whatever.


New York City Is Getting Futuristic Touchscreen Subway Maps

This will be awesome and also deeply unsanitary. New York City has hired a company called Control Group to install 90 47-inch touchscreen subway maps around the city. It looks like real life world-of-tomorrow type stuff.


Hackers Team Up To Steal $40,000 In Subway Gift Cards

Over in the US, recently released documents show that another pair of ne’er-do-wells are accused of running a similar scam on the restaurant for an additional $US40,000. In gift cards.


What It Looks LIke When NYC Builds A Brand New Subway Tunnel

New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority is extending the 7 subway line into far west Manhattan. It won’t open until mid 2014 (hopefully), but today the MTA showed off some of its progress. Just so we remember that it’s actually a thing that is going to happen and the MTA isn’t just playing a joke.


Hurricane Sandy Could Really Flood The New York Subway System

First it was Nicole. Then it was Irene. New York dodged a major bullet when those two storms missed the mark. Its massive, essential subway system survived unscathed.


Lunchtime Deal: Free Bacon At Subway

Get excited, lunchtime dealers: Subway is offering free bacon on all of its Subs between today and Friday.


The Most Perfect Tasing You’ll See This Week

The would-be female thief in the US seems like a smooth operator — until she gets zapped with a taser and falls to the ground like a stiff board. We’ve seen our fair share of tasings, but this is the plantonic ideal of taser drops.


The New York Subway Uses This Townhouse As A Secret Exit

Strolling through scenic Brooklyn Heights, this handsome brick house might catch your eye. Perhaps you’ll buy it, move in, and spend the rest of your life there. Unfortunately, it’s a fake house, hiding a secret NYC Subway exit.


Hackers Stealing $US3 Million From Subway Means You Should Probably Pay With Cash

If you’ve eaten at a Subway recently, there’s a slight chance that you might’ve got your credit card information stolen. OK probably not! But a group of Romanian hackers have managed to hack into Subway cash registers and have been logging down all sorts of customer info since 2008.



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