Subway News

New York - The answer is nothing too bad. Scientists have found that the microbial population in the air of the New York City subway system is close to the air on the city streets.

New York - A man was electrocuted early Friday morning at the Times Square subway station when he jumped onto the tracks and touched the electrified third rail, police said.

The story of a gay couple who adopted a baby they found abandoned in a Manhattan subway station 12 years ago has touched the hearts of thousands. Peter Mercurio tells the story in a New York Times Opinionator article "We Found Our Son in the Subway."

Angers - A Subway sandwich restaurant in the city of Angers, Pays de la Loire was forced to close after its posters advertising Valentine’s day ‘specials’ were slammed as being homophobic and caused outrage on social media.

During excavation work for a new subway system in Thessaloniki, Greece's second-largest city, an ancient gold wreath has been found, another of many similar finds in recent years.

Philadelphia - CCTV footage shows a man grabbing a 23-year-old woman by the ankles and throwing her onto the tracks at the SEPTA subway, 8th and Race streets in Philadelphia's Chinatown Tuesday. The man asked the woman for a light but suddenly attacked her.

Matt Corby's Facebook post of a Subway foot-long sandwich with a tape measure that only measures 11 inches has sparked outrage from Subway customers online, particularly in the company's official Facebook page.

Cologne - Earlier this week, a new underground train line became operational in Cologne, Germany. Since then, Germany's most famous landmark, Cologne Cathedral, is "under stress" in what can only be called "bad vibrations."

An altercation at a subway terminal causes one man to stun another man with a wrestling power bomb. In the video, a uniformed officer or a transit worker on the job simply watches the altercation take place.

New York - On December 27, a man was pushed to his death at a subway station by a female suspect at a station in Queens, NY. This makes it the second time, after the death of Ki-Suk Han, that someone died in this manner in December.