Times Square Gossip

ABC NY COVERS MTA ABC NY NEWS -- The MTA is phasing out its bar carts on Long Island Rail Road platforms, its final train service to lose the track-side alcohol service. Five bar carts at Penn Station, along with one each at the Jamaica Station, Atlantic Terminal and Hunterspoint Avenue, will end March 27.

SURVEILLANCE VIDEO NBC NEWS NY -- A man tried to rob an MTA clerk with a rock at a Manhattan subway station, but came away empty-handed, police say. The man used the rock to smash the clerk's booth window at the East Broadway F train station on the Lower East Side Wednesday night, according to police. After shattering the window, he demanded cash from the clerk and even claimed to have a gun in addition to the stone, police said. The clerk refused to hand over any cash and the man took off. He was last seen heading towards the NYCHA Rutgers Houses, police said.

Empty Boats Arrive At Hunters Point South I really find it disgusting that for weeks I have been watching empty boats, chartered by the Joe Lhota and the MTA for LIRR passengers, arrive and go empty. Almost every boat! The cost has to be in the millions. First they are renting the boats, some from far far away. Then they had to renovate the docks and put in new gates. This was not cheep. Then they have several buses waiting for the passengers that will never arrive and the buses still drive their route empty. You also have the MTA police called here for empty boats as well as dock men and woman to work the gates. Then you have some MTA guy with a clipboard marking the times each boat comes and goes and how many people are riding. Must be hard for him, each boat trip he writes zero. The Department Of Transportation (DOT). The list is endless and this has been going on for weeks now. They also took away dozens of parking spaces that they do not even use. Empty MTA...