Evening rush

Waiting for the F at Second Avenue via Derek Berg

Reader report: Small track fire at the Delancey/Essex Street station this morning

Waiting for the uptown F at at the Delancey/Essex Street station provided some photo ops this morning ... EVG reader David Shankbone shares these photos of a small track fire... no word on what caused it...



Updated 12:59
Gothamist has more on the fire here.

And how was your commute?

What the heck, let's step away from the neighborhood for a moment ... this has been making the rounds... From a Manhattan bound E or M train on Sunday.

Updated: Boo! YouTube removed the video!

Red alert

Going Your Way

[John F. Conn]

2 4 Flinching recently compiled a slew of NYC subway photos from the late 1970s and early 1980s.... including....


[Bruce Davidson]


[John F. Conn]

[Via BoingBoing ... thanks to Mick for the link!]

Trouble on the F stop on Houston/First Avenue this morning?

From a reader:

What was going on this am at 1st ave and Houston subway station? Tons of cops, ambulances etc. Cop cars were almost blocking Houston, and some people looked pretty shook up.

We haven't heard anything. Anyone?

Update:
Saw this on Twitter: Expected 20min delay to to work extends to 40min. Brought to you buy the IDIOTS fighting on the F train. Happy Hump Day

And why aren't there laws protecting innocent citizens from these types of quality-of-life violations?

Tap dancing to Maroon 5 covers in Union Square.



[Via Poppy Cedes]

Is it July 27 yet?

Oh, good. That means it's time for the start of the second season of Mad Men, the AMC show about advertising in 1960s Manhattan...that is seemingly advertising everywhere around the city. Gawker had a post July 14 on the Mad Men subway-ad campaign.



(Coincidentally, at the time I saw the post, Mad Men was up on the site's ad rotation.)


Meanwhile, if you like the show, Gridskipper posted a handy-dandy guide to Mad Men locales in the city last year. (And can a Mad Men tour for tourists be too far behind...?)

[Images on Gawker -- Flickr via Thighs Wide Shut]

Let's keep it clean, people