Another good reason to pile density onto subway lines: Almost free heat and cooling.

It has its ups and downs, but Harald Buschbacher's idea might be the best of both transit worlds.

If you care about embodied carbon, money or time, you don't dig. But then this is Toronto.

More than 250 homeless people were moved out of New York City subway trains, as the city's subway system closed early Wednesday to begin its first scheduled shutdown to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

"We literally have 10,700 franchisees in the U.S., and on average they own two restaurants apiece," Subway CEO John Chidsey told CNBC.

Squeezed by a lack of ridership, the authority that runs New York City's subways and buses may go to the Federal Reserve for a loan

Reportedly, the High School Musical alum posted a sweet duet reacting to a TikTok video of herself dancing on a metro station platform, before a tall gentleman, named Manuel De Los Santos.

Destin Garcia, 18, faces charges of aggravated assault and battery after allegedly drove to his co-worker's house in a rage and fired shots at her mom.

NEW YORK (AP) - New York City transit officials said they're providing buses for homeless people to shelter from unseasonably frigid weather this weekend...

New York City subway conductors said that essential workers who still use mass transit are in danger of being infected with coronavirus due to unsanitary conditions inside the cars.

The New York governor, left, fumed about the issue, inset, during his daily briefing Tuesday. An MTA official said the situation was a 'problem of de Blasio's, right, own making'.

A New York subway worker has shared an alarming video that shows how some of the homeless population has flocked to train cars to seek shelter amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Since the pandemic exploded in New York City and millions stopped going to work, ridership has decreased by 90 percent but there has been an increase in crimes on the underground network.

Officers from the NYPD were seen ordering homeless people off the subways on Thursday just a day after officials pledged to take action against them sleeping on empty trains.

Starting 1am on May 6, the subways will shut down for four hours every night to be cleaned. The Long Island Rail Road and Metro North trains will also be cleaned.

A shocking video shows the moment an unhinged man believed to be an essential worker throws 40 punches at an innocent bystander who was Asian, because the attacker blamed him for COVID-19.

The subway is to shutdown between 1am and 5am from Wednesday onwards. The aim is to ensure subway cars and stations are disinfected but homeless people could be at an even greater risk.

The modern technology will be trialed to clean trains, buses and work areas in the city, officials announced on Sunday.

The High School Musical alum, 31, posted a sweet duet reacting to a TikTok video of herself dancing on the subway, before a gentlemen, named Manuel,  joined her.

Subway has release recipes for its famous Teriyaki Chicken Sandwich, plain rolls, as well as Italian Herbs and Cheese Bread, and Double Chocolate Cookies, for people to make at home.

People missing their Subway fix can expand their repertoire to include a Meatball Marinara Sandwich, that takes 45 minutes to make, and South West Sauce you can whip up in 10 minutes.

Lihi Aharon was riding the train from Manhattan to Brooklyn earlier this week when a fellow passenger launched the anti-Semitic abuse.

As the number of coronavirus cases in the city rose to 19, Mayor Bill de Blasio said New Yorkers should consider cycling or walking to work to reduce overcrowding on the subway.

In an effort to halt the spread of the coronavirus, New York City has begun suspending service to its entire subway system nightly between 1 a.m. and 5 a.m. so cleaning crews can disinfect its thousands of trains. Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Could a subway station have a grand piano, chandeliers, and a fountain with goldfish to boot? Alfred Ely Beach certainly believed so in the years following the Civil War, and, in fact, he was not deterred in creating such a subway, one that debuted 150 years ago, on February 26, 1870. Beach (1826-1896) was an...

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Will we ever get back to watching baseball at Yankee Stadium? It is a fair and frustrating question. Perhaps, as therapy, it helps to go back in time before Yankee Stadium (either the original or the newer one) was even there.  We get this view from the Subway Construction Photograph Collection, and some parts of...

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New York City's subway is overcrowded and late. And that's just the beginning. Here's how the Metropolitan Transportation Authority could get the system back on track.