Subways are for sleeping: NYC Transit survival thread

the a train entrance i use at 14th street is kind of a little side one with only one gate. last night a crazy homeless guy was purposefully blocking it by hugging the metrocard reader. as people lined up behind me i was like 'cmon dude' and was considering physically shoving him aside. he looked up at me with bright insane eyes and remnants of something unpleasant in his beard and blurted out, 'you're a big fucker!' and stepped away.

after i went through he leaned back on the card reader. i could hear the next guy arguing with him but i don't know what happened because my train was coming.

The ACE is nasty as hell man. The A train always smells like someone put a bunch of hobo rags in front of a fan and the whole time it's blowing in your face.

The best part of the ACE is then getting off at West 4 and going down to the BDFV platform in the middle of summer. OMG... nasty doesn't even cover it. :P

I usually just get out at W4 and walk the rest of my way when it's a really hot and humid day rather than face that lower platform. AND they opened a dunkin donuts on W3rd near Sullivan a few months ago. Hooray.

BTW.. NYC Transit survival skills: learn to use your elbows and you'll be fine.

Lyra I join you in celebrating the Dunkin Donuts over by Thompson, not just for easy access to bad donuts, but because the DD ground coffee in the stores is somehow better than the DD ground coffee sold in supermarkets.

getting off at West 4 and going down to the BDFV platform

Lyra I join you in celebrating the Dunkin Donuts over by Thompson, not just for easy access to bad donuts, but because the DD ground coffee in the stores is somehow better than the DD ground coffee sold in supermarkets.

I thought I was the only one who could taste the difference! My guess is the stuff in the stores is just fresher or something. I've been in love with DD coffee since college, we used to drink it originally because it was closeby and better than dining hall sludge coffee and I kind of got hooked. Playing with my wall E toy and DD from Thompson at my desk this summer:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3256/2661673635_eb1a517d73_m.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3212/2662587240_afce8b3495_m.jpg

and with a Pearl River chopstick ;-)

wddll

that lower platform at W4 is like my second home. That which does not kill me...

wddll

WTF is wddll?

Also I had no idea that W4 was such a secret ILX nexus. crazy.

Dear D train: You suck. Thanks for stalling out this evening, messing up my carefully timed commute to my train home.

On the bright side, fuck going to the gym for a few days, I ran like crazy and made it from the uptown CE platform in Penn to my train with like 30 seconds to spare. Weaving through that crowd is like playing hockey.

I thought this revive was gonna be about this article

Hahaha Lyra I think the joke was "What Dunkin Donuts Looks Like."

W4 seems like a secret nexus of all things, really. I am going to be a jerk and start referring to it as "downtown's own Columbus Circle."

P.S. It's true, there is no place that "beer-flavored Doritos" sounds like a worse idea than on the freaking subway

Hahaha Lyra I think the joke was "What Dunkin Donuts Looks Like."
I'm starting to hear an Afghan Whigs song with these lyrics. Although I can't reallly hear exactly what they would be, maybe nabisco will write them, like he did for "BLT" on The logic of the setlist

With that title, I mean.

i'll warn you
if hungry
i'll eat the weight of ten strong men

tell you a secret
they shared a donut once or twice
she loved him
he loved food
went back for seconds a couple of times

f train breaks down every night
this must be what dunkin donuts looks like

Thr F was monstrous yesterday morning

Took nearly 2 hours to get from Greenpoint to Union Square. If I were driving I'd be near Albany by now. and this is -before- the service cuts?

it is lol to me that when waiting @ the 3rd ave. L you can smell dunkin donuts wafting down to the platform.

third ave L is a travesty and sure sign of the laziness of the american. fuckers can't walk to either union square or first ave? get real.

right? most useless stop ever.

literally 1 block from the easternmost exit @ union square!

need Ave B stop

:(

xp

or shift 1st ave to a and then put a line that goes all the way down to essex/delancey f/jmz

lol, you don't think we're getting any new stops in our lifetimes w/ this alleged state budget crisis? I'll be amazed if we see that 2nd Ave subway before 2030.

i don't think tza had any notion that was actually possible morbz don't worry.

lol!

or let's just all meet on 14th St after work, w/ shovels.

wait til spring when the ground has thawed.
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or a time machine! we could supervise the original construction.

Do you know when the G was called the GG, it REGULARLY ran from Coney thru Wburg to Queens?!

Was that back when the R was called the RR?

right? most useless stop ever.

― tehresa, Friday, January 23, 2009 10:08 AM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^^ that would be the 28th st. 1/9

And the RR went to Astoria, while the N went the other wayinto Queens? There were some other double letters too- the C or the A maybe.

actually, I'm wrong. But the GG was extended to Church Ave for rush hours (still wd be helpful).

http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/caption.pl?/img/maps/system_1972.jpg

http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/caption.pl?/img/maps/system_1972.jpg

Thanks, that brought me back, way back.

^^^ that would be the 28th st. 1/9
Yeah, pretty much. I also love the automated sign over the police desk in Penn Station that points people to the 1,2,3,9. It's a digital sign and they can't update in a few years?

I'm glad it's finally thawing a bit outside. The sign at Houston and Lafayette with the temperature on it has been taunting me in the morning all week with like 12F on it.

I use that 28th St stop for work.

hahaha the "9"

mourn you til I join you, 9paws

Oh wow, look at that. I used to visit my brother in Brooklyn yeaaaaaaaaaaars ago and I always wondered what the hell that was.

http://masstransiscope.wordpress.com/

Yeah, that's when I used to go out to Boro Park all the time. What a weird neighborhood

hahaha the "9"

― nabisco, Friday, January 23, 2009 3:18 PM (13 minutes ago)

mourn you til I join you, 9paws

― nabisco, Friday, January 23, 2009 3:18 PM (13 minutes ago)

I had forgotten about the "K" until I started investigating the AA and CC (not to mention the EE).

G is running to my house on f line again this weekend, wonder what I'll do...

NYC Subway twitter:
http://twitter.com/nyc_mta

Not sure where the get the info from, although it might be from official MTA alerts originally.

At least they finally got the robot announcers to stop announcing the 9 train. That took them a while.

More love for the W4th subway station- there was someone playing a huge upright bass on the uptown ACE platform this evening. I was listening waiting for my train, he was actually pretty good. And just to make this New York, about three firefighters in full gear (oxyen tanks, carrying axes, everything) came up from the lower level platform & stood near the stairs and listened for a bit as well. And then my train came. The end.