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A Lovely Map of Phone Reception in the New York Subway
Its creators probed the MTA’s 660 miles of track with a prototype data logger.
A quintessential New York experience—maybe even more than eating a lox bagel or being ignored by an outer borough-hating taxi—is entering the subway and having your phone reception promptly drop into a black hole.
Yes, this most advanced of cities has extremely sucky train coverage. And while the MTA is somewhere in the middle phase of wiring 279 below-ground stations, there are still places you can’t make a call to save your life.