NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) --Members of a subway performance group claim they've been threatened with arrest by NYPD officers in the new Second Avenue subway stations. Busk NY posted a video showing two ...

It has been over a year since buskers, and their music, returned underground, and their slightly fuller tip jars and instrument cases suggest things may be looking up. By Kalia Richardson As Azusa ...

Three longtime subway buskers won $54,500 from the City this month, in a joint wrongful arrest lawsuit against the NYPD. One of the musicians, Andrew Kalleen, was arrested and charged with loitering ...

Some subway performers are reevaluating their venue of choice after a video of the “Dancing is Happiness” saxophonist, John Ajilo, getting arrested at the 34th St Herald Square station went viral ...

From the tin drum man of 34th street to that classic mariachi band, New York City subways are characterized by their eccentric musicians, also known as “Buskers.” Part of the nature of these acts is ...

As confused commuters hurried past, some stopping to snap a few cell phone pictures before rushing to catch the incoming G train, Matthew Christian stood among subway musicians wearing a shirt that ...

It’s 6 pm on Friday evening. The clock reads 13 more minutes until the downtown F train arrives. Exhausted commuters crowd around a violinist who melodiously plays Frank Sinatra’s “New York, New York.

I've got a love-hate relationship with subway buskers. Mostly because when they're good, they're really good. But when they're bad, they're really, really atrociously bad. And when they're the worst, ...

The NYPD is putting the heat on churro sellers, subway acrobats, and other underground peddlers and panhandlers. Cops arrested 89 vendors as of March 16, up from 49 during the same period last year — ...

Looking to hear some nice, free music this summer? You could do a lot worse than to head underground. In the subway stations of Europe's biggest cities, busking is surprisingly popular, not just among ...

Singer Hisham Breedlove has a precise routine for staking out a performance spot inside Metro stations. The operatic countertenor places his belongings on the station mezzanine. Then, he nods a hello ...