As Hurricane Sandy bears down on us, the MTA, in all of their glory, has decided that this is a time to mock. Starting at 7 p.m. this evening, the MTA began to shut down the entire public transportation system of the city of New York and its surrounding areas (North America’s largest). On their official photostream, they’ve posted a number of photos of empty train and subway stations.

I preferred when they were merely inconvenient. Now they’re just cruel.

See more at the MTA’s Flickr photostream.