It then just grew into an obsession as we thought about whether we could build part of a subway car to a scale and let people sit in it." So they did! Straphanger's Lounge debuted at the Wool ...

The cars on the 1 line date back to the 1980s, and MTA data shows they fail eight times more often than the MTA’s newest subway trains. The facility lacks fire sprinklers and modern fire alarms.

The video shows several of the crooks at the controls of one R160 subway car traveling upward of 30 mph. They may have passed at least one in-service train during their joyride, with one crook ...