This is television’s most thorough and comprehensive history of New York City’s mass transit. I’m glad they avoided using personal histories and interviews and just kept it as a narrative to keep it chock full of facts. Love the narrator’s grandfatherly, yarn-spinning voice. This really does make all the other subway documentaries look slow & plodding or just immature. Way better than that Extreme Engineering episode.

[Modern Marvels S05E03 New York Subways (by nick rose)]

Editorial | What is White Pot Junction? And Why Should I Care? | Queens Courier

Link: Editorial | What is White Pot Junction? And Why Should I Care? | Queens Courier

An excellent editorial piece from a member of Queen’s CB14’s Transportation Committee on the necessity of reactivating the entire Rockaway Branch row for rail.

WNYC Keeping the Dream of Subway Expansion Alive

WNYC has put up a great piece on some of the unfinished portions of the New York City subway. The map above gives approximations of where some line expansions would have gone. 

The Google Map below gives a better scale of where the lines would have run.

Build That Subway to Staten Island Already.

Link: Build That Subway to Staten Island Already.

A major development project for its waterfront could give Staten Island a much-needed boost, but the tide is taking young people from its shores.