Subways are for sleeping: NYC Transit survival thread

burt, are you sure you don't live in astoria, queens?

i don't think it's spock....but he seems familiar

Also re "urban": I can't think of anyone more urban than someone who's grown up without the benefit of being able to escape the city whenever they wanted to via travel or other opportunities. And in Crown Heights, that means Black West Indians, really, many of whom are still living on the same blocks where they were born & grew up, and a fair number of those people have seen that neighborhood right through the '80s and '90s without going to summer camp in the country or family vacations to the Grand Canyon or much of anything, really. And since I've lived there and witnessed whole families being served dinner on the C train, that's the experience I drew on to comment.

If you paid attention to ILX much you'd know that I'm highly likely to go on screeds about public transit behavior, but do you really want to take the side of gabbneb in this thread, who thinks you shouldn't even carry CLOSED food containers from other neighborhoods on the subway, lest your seat-mate inadvertently smell it? Good thing he apparently has every kind of cuisine he might want available within walking distance of his apartment.

Nah, Williamsburg.

Truce, Laurel. Let's go to Soca Fest 2008.

i am down [unwanted shoulder rub]

xp You know, you've got really strong hands

I would like to meet Burt Stanton. Put a face with the name. Piss on his leg, tell him it's raining. Hide sausages in his pockets. Grab his nuts, unasked...

let's get bizzy in the e-sauna

fizzy in tha hot tub

If I want a soca fix, I'll work out at the Curves on Flatbush.

At least the other customers there will be awesome and no one will crepe on anyone else.

oh no you DI-INT

do you really want to take the side of gabbneb in this thread, who thinks you shouldn't even carry CLOSED food containers from other neighborhoods on the subway, lest your seat-mate inadvertently smell it?

i think you shouldn't carry food in your stomach on the subway.

i don't think it's spock....but he seems familiar

-- bell_labs, Tuesday, December 4, 2007 7:54 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

New York City is becoming Ayn Rand's dream metropolis - a city where the power of wealth is wiping the scum from the streets (poor people, middle class people, writers, designers, public interest workers) and replacing them with mailboxes, coffee carts, and Thai Fusion restaurants. let us all hail our banker masters. So many people I know are starting to get priced straight out of the entire city ;[

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New York City ILXOR)RS - Is this city becoming 100% exclusive to the elite?
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hate to break it to you laurel but Curves is a Royal Video now

Awwwww noooo! That is so sad for the people who owned it, Irma was awesome.

been closed for a while actually but nothing new moved in until now

ooh good call dmr

whoever wins gets an all weekend free pass into my narrow cut jeans

dudes that open their legs really wide and take up two seats

Since we've already mentioned farting, when one of these charmers is next to me I usually try to fire one up.

so when will G train be extended? cuz otherwsie I really wanna move the fuck away from Church Ave.

2008 I think, and they say it's going to be permanent. Regular service through Queens wouldn't be bad, either.

Fried chicken on the train smells okay. It's shrimp and McDonald's fries that get to me.

I have occasionally eaten Corn Nuts on the train, since they're the most inoffensively food-like item available from the platform newsstand by me (you know, late for work + killer empty stomach), but then the other day I was in a car with a woman eating some of those and the whole place freaking REEKED of Unpleasant Corn-Nut Stank. I had never EVER thought of Corn Nuts as having any kind of powerful aroma (WTF), but now I feel like all my fellow riders must have been really annoyed.

(Slight thing in my favor: I think the woman had some sort of gross nacho Corn Nuts going on, whereas I always went for the lime chile picante.)

dudes that open their legs really wide and take up two seats

i don't actually ask if i can share ppl's food, but if one of these dudes decides their space is more important than mine, they have to get more gay with me than they might like

If a woman tried that strategy with most of those men, I think they'd consider it a win/win. Hence bell's and my agitation on that topic.

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MTA votes on hikes Wednesday.

HOW DUZ I SHOT F TRAIN

no congestion charge and more money to ride the train

WIN WIN

F train: same shit, diff year

Morbius, take the F or whatever it takes to see "There will be blood".

..1..

my wife took the kid to school today and half-hour later the phone rings "oops school starts TOMORROW" so I run out to the subway and the 1/2/3 dwntwn is fucked up..thx MTA . ah but LOL whatre ya gonna do huh?

F train
One of the freebie handout newspapers had something about the pros and cons of the V train last week.

when the trrains start talking they could evaluate the pros and cons of the freebie newspapers

the G train fuxup the F in Brooklyn, the V does it in Manhattan.

"we have a train in front of us" NO SHIT

I read something about NYC trying out a system to make subway better by assigning line managers to each line and putting them in competition with one another. Is that correct or am I on the pipe?

Ha, I just went on the JaxHts board and accidentally found link to the V train article http://www.amny.com/news/local/transportation/am-vtrain1231,0,6068788.story

god bless the g train. the f line should be discarded and replaced completely by the g. blesssssed day

ban burt stanton

one day, my g train bretheren, you will inherit the earth

i live off the 4 now - easily the most reliable line i've ever lived off.

We're #1! We're #1!

No, you're No. 4.

Oh, right then.

Ok, is the F train normal btwn 7th Ave and Hoyt (or Jay) this weekend, or not? The signs in the stations say no, but the MTA website sez yes this weekend, no March 1-3.

http://www.mta.info/nyct/service/subsrvnweekend.htm#f

the weekend advisory email i got yesterday said no f train this weekend either.

now i don't know whether to cry or wind my watch

I'll be taking the B67 bus to Atlantic/Pacific at least a couple times, then.

I took the B61 for the first time last night! Bus trips are kind of little adventures.

somebody jumped in front of a train and died at the 7th Av Q station on Wednesday night

we got out there about an hour and a half after the incident, cops all over, medical examiner van on the street and the whole station smelled like bleach :(( ick

eeek :(