Stefanos Chen

The Trump admin is threatening to pull back funding from the MTA, if it doesn’t crack down on crime. But crime *is* down on the subway, and it’s unclear what the letter intends to accomplish. The timing is noteworthy: Trump wants congestion pricing to end this Friday www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/n...

The subway had its safest summer in 15 years, according to police data, a vastly different picture than the one painted by the Trump administration www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/n...

OK that's pretty cute. Nathan's hot dogs is cutting a promo with the MTA to highlight the company's original Coney Island shop. The N, F, and Q lines form a hot-dog-shaped nexus on the new subway map

A new "Bangladeshi Express" between Brooklyn and Queens. Tens of thousands of potential housing units. And the closest thing New Yorkers could get to an Airtrain. Here's how the IBX train could reshape life in New York City. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/n...

Can buses be both "fast and free"? My dude @larrybuch.bsky.social rode the B41 up and down Flatbush Ave with a stopwatch to figure it out www.nytimes.com/video/upshot...

The MTA says a long awaited railroad project to connect Bronx residents to Penn Station will take at least 3 years longer than expected, and they’re blaming Amtrak for the delays www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/n...

Cuomo critics and transit advocates both seizing on this proposal to give the mayor control of the transit system's capital plans (the pool that pays for big flashy projects and repairs, but not the day-to-day operations) - via @migold.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/n...

Creaking walls. Broken elevators. Missing chunks of concrete. One of the most expensive condo towers in the world has new problems, and many could be connected to its cracking white facade. An investigation w/ @dionnesearcey.bsky.social + Urvashi Uberoy www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/n...

Gonna put u on to the best crispy pork in the city. Like chicharrón, but lighter. Stall 23 in the New York Food Court in Flushing

Would you pay $900 for a subway seat? If you said, um, it's probably too late. Read this great dispatch from Cam Baker on the MTA's garage sale www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/n...

New York has paused its 34th Street busway project, after the Trump admin threatened to withhold unnamed federal transit funds. It's the latest in a long list of federal interventions on local transit matters. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/n...

Delightful read on 6-7, which is all my kids talk about. Who knew they were so familiar with Derridean poststructuralism www.wsj.com/lifestyle/si...

hoo boy. Telling detail in the very short Tish James indictment.