Take a Peek at the MTA's New Flip-Up Bench Seats in Service on the J Train

Local transit historian and railfan Dj Hammers makes tons of great videos showing how subway transit works and runs in the City. In this recent upload to YouTube, Dj Hammers captures one of the MTA's R160 train cars with the new flip-up bench seats that are raised during rush-hour traffic to increase capacity.

Here we see a J train utilizing a consist of R160 cars that have been retrofitted with seats the flip up and lock in the up position during the rush hour to provide additional capacity.

[WATCH] This Brooklyn Ice Cream Shop Serves a Unique Ham Flavored Ice Cream

Brooklyn's OddFellows is a small ice cream shop on Kent St. in Williamsburg that serves up some of New York City's best homemade ice cream. Amongst other unique creations, the shop recently unveiled a ham-flavored scoop, so Eater's resident carnivore Nick Solares just had to go out and give it a try. Check it out!

In this episode of The Meat Show, Nick gets to try ham ice cream with candied pineapple, a new creation from OddFellows' Sam Mason. Will he like it? Should more people be putting ham in their ice cream? Will Nick fall in love with this ham/dairy treat?

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