A D.C. Metropolitan Transit officer arrested a 24-year old woman on Wednesday and pinned her to the ground with a taser, ripping her shirt and exposing her chest. The alleged unforgivable crime that caused this reaction? Fare evasion.
With illegal border crossings currently at their lowest level in decades, Border Patrol agents have been setting up random immigration checkpoints up to 100 miles away from the actual border—and it’s raising significant legal red flags.
My first encounter with sexual assault coincided with another traumatic event. I was 12 years old when the Twin Towers fell, and two days later, I returned to Hunter College High School on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. The dust hadn’t settled, and the city scrambled to find some semblance of normalcy. Later, New…
In President Trump’s perfect universe, all of his discriminatory, objectively dangerous, and entirely shitty administration nominees would be approved by the Senate. He just might get his wish! On Monday, the Senate confirmed Steven Bradbury’s nomination to general counsel of the Transportation Department.
The summer is hot and the trains are stopped. As you sit on a stalled subway train somewhere deep underground, enjoy our newest installment of people from inside the MTA telling you exactly what is wrong with the MTA.
Here in New York City, the transportation situation is so dire that the MTA is encouraging people to “stay home or work odd hours” to ease the rush hour burden. Which is a good peg for the third installment of our series in which real MTA workers tell us what the hell is going on down there.
New York City subways suck, and we’re asking MTA employees to tell us why. Today, actual train operators speak out on flawed equipment, overcrowding, and how they’re DOING THEIR BEST. Okay?
Everyone who has ever sat on a stalled subway train knows that the MTA, the agency responsible for keeping New York City transportation running, is broken. Why? We asked MTA employees to tell us.
This morning’s rush hour subway delaypocalypse in New York City felt almost routine, what with the similar delays in every past week in recent memory. You know who might be able to shine some real light on this bullshit? Some MTA employees.
A recent campaign launched by UN Women in Mexico and the Mexico City government seeks to educate Metro riders about sexual violence against women—and has attracted worldwide attention for how it’s doing it.
Just when ridesharing service Uber thought it was moving beyond the #DeleteUber PR disaster, the company is again facing questions over an anti-Muslim hate preacher who has been working as an Uber driver in Florida.
On Saturday evening in New York, scores of immigrants and refugees remained detained at JFK airport following Trump’s travel ban. Lawyers huddled on terminal 4’s floor, punching out habeas corpus petitions. The New York Taxi Workers Alliance, an advocacy organization representing a coalition of independent…
Last night, various courts put a halt on President Donald Trump's unprecedented executive order banning people from seven Muslim countries from coming to the U.S. The first ruling against the ban came from federal judge in the Eastern District of New York, who issued an emergency stay banning deportations from the…
Prior to Friday's shooting at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport where at least five people were killed and eight were injured, Florida lawmakers were considering a bill that would make it legal for people with concealed carry licenses to bring guns in airport terminals. Yup, you read that right—some…
While riding the subway home to the Bronx from his job as a hair stylist in New Jersey, 44-year-old Ijan Jarrett made cardinal mistake of making eye contact and speaking to an unhinged person who ended up stabbing him multiple times after he offered her his seat.
When Manhattan's Second Avenue subway station opens at 72nd Street next month, it will do more than simply offer a relief valve for New York's congested metro transit system. It will also highlight a gay married couple—a reported first for a non-political, permanent public art installation in New York City history.
Brazilian soccer team Chapecoense has been awarded the Copa Sudamericana championship trophy a week after most of its players died in a horrific plane crash en route to that the tournament final.
Minutes before Brazilian soccer team Chapecoense took off for Colombia last Monday, an airport official warned Lamia airlines that the plane didn't have enough fuel to make it to Medellin International Airport. She was probably right. The plane crashed, killing 71 people.
Commuters at stations in Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Harlem were greeted during afternoon rush hour Wednesday by activists handing out free rides as a form of protest against the NYPD's broken windows policing strategy, which targets people for minor offenses like fare evasion.
Self-driving truck company Otto has had a big couple of months.  The startup, founded by Lior Ron and three other ex-Google employees, is less than a year old, but made a deal with Uber in August where the company got 1% of Uber's $68 billion valuation. And just last week, it made its first delivery with a…
