The subway conductor was announcing the approaching station stops in the most musical but heavy Jamaican accent. As the train progressed south bound, he gave the feel that he was really enjoying himself as he called out the ‘approaching stations’ and ‘to not stand in the way of the door’, ‘nor try to hold the …
Category Archives: Subway
Paranoia
On a Sunday morning when the subway riders are few and mostly male, and these males are mostly dressed in somber colors and when in my car one begins to pray and another is chant, I begin to wonder if I’m are perhaps in the wrong place at the wrong time. As someone told me, …
Washington Metro
Based upon my extensive NYC subway experience, of course I was ripe to compare my opinions to the Washington Metro. Apparently often, in DC, an escalator is not operative. When it’s stairs – as in New York – I’m facing with a suitcase, I know it’s stairs and I lug upwards to a stair-induced-rhythm. But …
Fun and Free
Went with a friend last night to the second floor of the Hilton Hotel on 6th Avenue where every 20 minutes another music or dance performance was taking place. The venue was the APAP [Association of Performing Arts Presenters] Showcase 2012. What a wonder! Of course we saw the Dana Leong Trio: electric cello, guitar, …
Chance Meeting
I stared at the ends of his shawl, the tassels were woven with beautiful threads. It was hanging below his jacket, just about eye level to me where I sat on the subway. The car was crowded, so he was rather close, hanging onto the rail above. My fascination with the textile quality of this …
‘Twas
indeed, the night before Christmas… the day before and the City has been quite void of traffic, a sort of tranquility has descended as if calmed by the end in sight. Don’t know if the subway rats are not stirring…
Ask
So I did. I asked a subway rider who sleeps, how he knows when to awake. Oops, he said, if I am really heavily asleep, then I wake up 2 or 3 stops past mine, get off and take the train back. If I am lightly sleeping, I awake at my own stop, just as …
Riding the Rails on the S Line
That was fun! Once-a-year the Metro Transit Authority, hooks as many as 11 vintage subway cars together and runs them for the four Saturdays between the Saturday after Thanksgiving and the one before Christmas, on a designated line. This Saturday it was running on the ‘M’ line as the ‘M’ line doesn’t run on weekends, …
Eyes Shut
How do those passengers who sit on the subway with their eyes shut and appear to be sleeping, know when to wake up to get off?
Meddler
Perhaps it is just me, not able to leave well enough alone. He was standing in the jam-packed subway car with 5 double-bagged Trader Joe’s bags. The gaping bags laid out in plain view what he had purchased: all the trimmings for a holiday dinner. Since we are cheek-by-jowl and I had to look down …