To learn more I often try a different entrance to the subway. Tuesday I decided to try an unused-by-me-entrance at Christopher St. The turnstile gates appeared directly at the bottom of the stairs, which I had not expected. One needs to be able to make a choice about the direction of train travel: north or …
Category Archives: Subway
Seeing What’s There
I have read it as fact, that the early settlers were not seen arriving in their boats by the indigenous inhabitants of the Americas, because you can’t see what you don’t know. [the theory is that the shaman, better attuned to observation, saw the ripples in the water and reasoned that ripples were indicative of …
All In A Day’s Ride
His head was shaved, and I didn’t think anything about it when he sat down in front of me on the crosstown bus. After he was seated I looked up and saw he had had someone tattoo an alert, open eye including that small clear dot in the pupil where the light refracts, under an …
Night of the Week
It was Wednesday night and I was returning from the Upper West Side [UWS] to the Village. It had been a clever evening of lovely food and wine. I waited for the subway and when it arrived, got on. It lurched forward immediately and caught me and my balance off guard. I was going to …