An F Train was nearly bored into by a 10-inch-wide drill bit yesterday while traveling under an East Side Access construction site in Queens. There were roughly 800 passengers inside, and though the bit scraped the body of the train and shattered several windows, no one was injured.

It's not often that a police officer will explain to you why what you're doing is perfectly legal just before he puts you in handcuffs, but that's exactly what happens to a New York City subway platform musician in the video above.

A report soon to be issued by the MTA warns of what any New Yorker who took the train to work yesterday already knows: on a sticky summer day, subway platforms get really fucking hot.

Every day, a contingent of New Yorkers, moving in shadows, manages to board the subway without paying the fare—hopping turnstiles and slipping through propped-open service doors on their way to school, or work, or home. Who will defend the city from these monsters?

A tipster has revealed to Business Insider that a third train line in the New York City subway has potentially been infested with bedbugs. The first subway line to get fumigated—the N train—was followed by the 5 train, and now the pests have reportedly taken to feeding on passengers on the 7.

For an unbelievable five weeks starting last Friday, New York City's G Train, the only direct subway route between Brooklyn and Queens, will not run between the two boroughs. How will you cope?

Like a nightmare come to life, passengers were trapped inside a smoke-filled, Queens-bound 7 train stuck in a tunnel near Grand Central for 20 minutes late last night.

A 45-year-old man surfing on top of a northbound subway car on the 6 line died Wednesday night after hitting his head against an overhang, according to DNAinfo.

Good news if you're ever actually delayed — and terrible news if "late trains" are your go-to excuse — the MTA writes late passes for employees to give to their bosses when train service is disrupted.

Depending on your source, the engineer of the Metro-North train that crashed Sunday, killing four and injuring more than 60, was either "zoned out" or dozing just seconds before the derailment. The engineer, William Rockefeller, reportedly woke up as the train—then traveling 82 mph—entered a 30-mph bend in the Bronx.

The Metro-North train that crashed Sunday morning was traveling 82 mph—in a 30 mph zone—when it derailed. "When I heard about the speed, I gulped. It sort of takes your breath away," Sen. Chuck Schumer said at a press conference this afternoon.

Avonte Oquendo, a 14 year-old autistic boy, went missing from his school in Queens almost four weeks ago. Fliers with his picture are everywhere in New York City. And now—finally—he may have been spotted (Update: nope). But!

A new lawsuit filed Friday in Brooklyn Federal Court charges that a 10-year-old Brooklyn boy was called a “terrorist” and banned from boarding a bus when he recited a Muslim prayer in Arabic after losing his MetroCard.

The MTA is considering a new subway model for New York City — "articulated trains," which have no internal doors, functioning much like accordion busses. While MTA officials estimate the new trains could shorten stop times, they would also make it harder to isolate "the scourge of the sick passenger" — that is, bodily fluids — for cleanup.

The use of MetroCards in the New York City subway system "cannot be maintained beyond 2019," according to the MTA. Time for retinal scanners?

Two kittens, living out an urban/feline version of The Tale of Peter Rabbit, took a Subway Adventure earlier today and caused the MTA to halt subways on the B and Q lines for an hour.

"Ultimate" meaning both the greatest and the last, because after this inimitable exercise in pining for lost love, no one will ever dare miss a connection again.

It's like one of those riddles, except real and very sad.

"Excuse me ladies and gentlemen."

A group of skaters hanging out at a skate shop in Bridgeport, Conn., got a first-row seat to the massive train derailment during Friday's rush hour that left 72 people injured. The video above features strong language, but also incredible footage of the massive track damage that occurred.