Another must-have I learned of from a Twitter ad.

This eye-catching 1873 bird's-eye view of New York City features Battery Park in the foreground, with many ships in the harbor. The map was created by Ferd. Mayer & Sons. View the full map image here: loc.gov/item/98508572/…

A new euphemism classic: “a rapid unscheduled disassembly.” = The SpaceX rocket blew up.

In our hyper-specialized world, the rodents now focus on particular bread products: I present you Bagel Rat. #nysubway #nycsubway #pizzarat ⁦Rick⁩ #MTA

while everyone is distracted canada should invade greenland

The last thing EBITDA sees before it's adjusted

Until now, the M&Ms store was the main food attraction in #TimesSquare. But now there’s competition. Perhaps they’ll deploy people in sardine suits (and bad breath) to accost tourists.

And here I thought one of the great advances in NYC in the 1990s was the virtual elimination of (fake-) flavored coffees.

Love the nonchalance. At least someone thought to open the window on the left. On an R-68 you can’t move to the next car, so there’s not much you can do but hold your breath until the next station. At least no pulled the brake cord. #nysubway

Well, no one will say it isn’t eye-catching. ra¢hel Robert Armstrong Sujeet Indap alexandra scaggs

Switches gone rogue? #nysubway #nycsubway #mta

First time I’ve seen a body bag on the #NYsubway. ⁦Rick⁩

The smell of napalm in the morning? Try diesel locomotive exhaust in the #NYsubway.

TIL

Bet that’s a real page-turner.

A look inside the abandoned Worth Street subway station, shuttered in the 1960s ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2025/04/14/a-l…

Somebody hit Send too soon. nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/04/24/dis…

And you thought *you* had a bad day.

“May I have the key to the restroom?”

“No time to explain. We need to rescue a coyote. He’s stuck in a deep hole the shape of himself.”