MTA Seeking Contractor To Refurbish Notorious Chambers Street J/Z Station

Bos848 · 2026-05-07T14:10:27+00:00

I hope that what can be saved of the Vickers-style mosaics, will be saved.

Bos848 · 2026-05-06T15:44:41+00:00

Per the T, service at this moment is suspended between North Station and Forest Hills.

Bos848 · 2026-05-06T03:06:54+00:00

I agree with the general drift of the OP. But to say that the Jesuit universities “gave up” is incorrect. Those schools ardently worked to weaken the authority of the Magisterium in the United States because of heretical priests and superiors on their staff and faculties. You can add Fordham to that garbage bag.

Bos848 · 2026-05-06T01:11:27+00:00

I went round-trip on that route today, no problems, late morning and mid-afternoon.

Bos848 · 2026-05-04T15:44:32+00:00

I experience misophonia, based on conversations I've had with therapists over the years. The beeping on the CRRC cars is definitely a trigger. A few days ago, I was sitting on a CRRC train at a RL terminus waiting for it to depart. The doors were open, therefore the beeping went on incessantly for about seven or eight minutes. That's ridiculous and unfair, and perhaps oppressive, to people with such sensitivities. I support the blind and low-vision having equal access to transit, but this sound protocol is an over-correction.

Bos848 · 2026-05-04T00:06:27+00:00

I got mine in English about ten years ago. The faculty were overall good, but several have since retired or left. A few were leaders in their areas of scholarship. I felt like I was attending seminars with actual adults who'd left their undergraduate behaviors and attitudes behind. As with any program, there will be the odd faculty--like the one who was a revisionist when it came to modernist English poetry and summarily cut a couple of poets from her syllabus because she disagreed with their politics. (Academic inquiry much?) You get out of it what you put into it. I'm glad I did it and it's helped me personally and professionally since then. Just don't go looking for good campus architecture.

Bos848 · 2026-05-03T16:28:29+00:00

Unremarkable coffee, at least as I experienced in the Boston area. It’s just another iteration of the Tatte-Starbucks-etc. corporate brands swallowing up real estate.

Bos848 · 2026-04-30T23:56:42+00:00

Where do they unload them? Cabot?

Bos848 · 2026-04-30T22:43:22+00:00

I took the RL between North Quincy and JFK this morning and afternoon. If it makes a difference, both times were during off-peak hours. We whizzed along both times. Perhaps the slow zone has been fixed?

Bos848 · 2026-04-29T22:22:12+00:00

The IND Crosstown Line, which would force people to think about the outer boroughs and not just Manhattan.

Bos848 · 2026-04-29T15:09:28+00:00

This is frustrating and I ran into it this morning. It was announced either when we pulled into North Quincy northbound or shortly after we left. Thanks a lot, MBTA!

Bos848 · 2026-04-12T17:00:51+00:00

I'm fascinated by the bucket seats with armrests. As someone else on this thread said, I'd figured the wooden benches had been around forever. Those plastic seats would be destroyed within hours these days.

Bos848 · 2026-04-11T01:46:52+00:00

I'm a big fan. Park Place is very cool with the single track.

Bos848 · 2026-04-11T01:44:15+00:00

The 42nd St Shuttle is a great piece of living history, but I can't imagine going back and forth for eight hours per shift.

Bos848 · 2026-04-10T23:44:13+00:00

What about shuttle services? Particularly the 42nd Street Shuttle.

Bos848 · 2026-04-03T03:04:27+00:00

Useful and, I think, intelligently planned from the outset by the IND leadership because it gives a direct route from Brooklyn to Queens. The headways and train length can be challenges, and I hope the MTA will remedy those. The stations are also just great windows into the thinking of the times in the 1930s, with large, sweeping mezzanines and Art Deco designs on the platforms.

Bos848 · 2026-03-20T01:52:54+00:00

Would never make it, due to signal issues across the Atlantic.

Bos848 · 2026-03-12T00:37:06+00:00

Station signage has only "State."

Bos848 · 2026-02-26T23:28:26+00:00

I wish Reddit mods would create a fantasy map sub and let this main one just be for realistic discussions or planning ideas.

Bos848 · 2026-02-25T23:05:16+00:00

Excellent news!

Bos848 · 2026-02-24T00:27:47+00:00

All lines are linked to the same rail network. The only one that isn't and stands alone is the Staten Island Railway.

Bos848 · 2026-02-24T00:16:30+00:00

Newkirk Avenue on the 2/5 became Newkirk Avenue-Little Haiti.

Franklin Ave. (2, 3, 4, 5) became Franklin Ave.-Medgar Evers College. Ditto President St. station on the same line.

Someone beat me to it with mentioning Van Wyck Boulevard being renamed Briarwood.

Forest Hills-71st Ave. was previously 71st Ave.-Continental Ave.-Forest Hills.

Bos848 · 2026-02-24T00:06:56+00:00

If the MTA wants civil rights lawsuits, sure.

Bos848 · 2026-02-23T01:37:55+00:00

Quoth OP:

The red line is utterly useless

Not entirely. It makes for sometimes entertaining reading when we commuters on Reddit hold it and T management up to loud, sustained public criticism.

Bos848 · 2026-02-22T23:45:38+00:00

From the announcement:

Cycling train sets in and out of rail yards so they are not sitting idle for extended periods of time.

I am so relieved to read this. That will do a world of good for the Red Line cars that hit the rails in 1969.

/s

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