Subways are for sleeping: NYC Transit survival thread

yeah from myrtle/bway on

def wondering what this will do to bed stuy rents. can only imagine that things will speed up there now due to j/z and a/c access.

East Flatbush here I come :(

do you figure, io, that you will keep hopscotching til you die on the Boardwalk at age 98?

(if you quit smoking)

I honestly have no idea. My income has not risen proportionately to rents and I just had my annual review and they're not raising me to $20k more than currently so...if my LLs were to raise rent to the level they COULD if they wanted, I would be out.

Random guy on a way too overcrowded car in rush hour tried to pick a fight with me, then went on a long rant about shooting someone, eventually took off his shoe to kill a fly with it
Its a helluva town

City that never sleeps iirc

better yet, add a smile! courtesy is contagious -- make it a better ride for everyone

perhaps that was the "earlier incident" that caused my train to run at slower speeds

useful link when you have one bar

http://www.ismytrainfucked.com/

thanks for that

has Cuomo shut the trains for the non-storm yet?

https://catapult.co/stories/the-accidental-city

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/mta-creating-1-300-subway-signs-return-w-train-article-1.2844946

Why doesn't the guy who plays sax on the stairs at 8th Ave - 14th St ever ever get any better? It's been years and he still sounds like total garbage

Ha! There's a few of those guys that I wonder about. Dreadlocked bassist at West 4th comes to mind.

Beatles guy in the 14th St. 6th/7th Ave. tunnel is also way up there.

Even if this kid literally only plays his horn when he's there in the station, no one should be able to put in that much time and still have such a shitty embouchure and such clunky fingers

It makes me miss free jazz space alien sax guy

The Freakonomics guys' 10,000 hours thesis keeps falling part due to evidence

hahaha lol roffle etc. Came to say I wish had those kinds of hours to practice.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/15/nyregion/second-avenue-subway-opening.html

hey guys guess what the 2nd ave line might get delayed

Shock!

sad!

God in heaven. 14th Street tunnel Beatles guy has been displaced (I pray temporarily) by a bearded man playing the BAGPIPES. This is exactly as horribly-suited to the acoustic situation, long uphill hike, and captive audience as you might imagine.

disgusting savage at 14th st (A/C/E) tonight freestyling/scatting on 'hallelujah'

I am just thrilled that the bagpipe guy was a one-day thing. Since his disappearance, Beatles guy has I think been reaching for slightly deeper cuts. Heard ''I Need You'' the other day. He's still lousy, but at least he is enthusiastic and not playing the bagpipes.

haha i encountered bagpipes man at w 4th st last week.

https://i.reddituploads.com/15bea0cd02e34a4886dea337b3d04d46?fit=max&h=1536&w=1536&s=0745df3b502b05ab5b193557b7d56979

there's nothing up there I go to anymore.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BOVWtJzg6dq/

Sadly, over the course of construction, the MTA scrapped some fancy features, including glass platform walls with sliding doors that would have increased energy efficiency and prevented people from throwing trash on the tracks (or jumping onto them).

absolute trash

Popped into my head today: a song performed by some platform acoustic guitar dude, possibly as far back as ten years ago. I suspect if I actually heard it, I would find it to be pretty intolerable coffee-shop earnest-folk jam dude stuff, but in my brain as it resonates it's sounding very hooky. All I can remember: "Cause you know it's a sin, halfway down and halfway out." Not much to go on and presumably I will never hear or find this song again. Kinda content with the version in my head which is sounding more and more Kurt Vile-esque than it ever did in reality. Sorta like Little Pete and "Summerbaby" on The Adventures of Pete and Pete. Ho hum.

Longest commute ever

B train appeared at carroll gardens this morning

not as impressive as if it were an E, but still

transit magic will happen under Mayor Hillary

Yes that was fun. I completely missed a 9am mandatory meeting. Sadly though 2 hours is not even my longest commute ever.

http://gothamist.com/2017/01/06/subway_cell_phone_etiquette.php

lol get 1 headphones, dummy

sb

Silly article - there's an etiquette issue but it's not about preserving some Quiet Car vision of a world made tolerable by people not having phone conversations, it's just that people talk way too loud on their phones. Also um... for those of us on elevated lines there is nothing new about this at all.

The bigger problem IMHO, and where headphones actually come into play, is people playing games or watching videos on their phones.

i have on at least one occasion witnessed someone watching porn on a phone in the subway without headphones

I would vote for a Subway Is Too Damn Loud Party mayoral candidate

http://i.imgur.com/eob0pFl.gif

if by 2017 ppl are still doing this, is that gif gonna make them stop?

gifs are how millennials communicate iirc

Tonight on the Williamsburg Bridge, a guy waited until like 45 seconds before arrival at Marcy to turn on the boom box and declare "This is showtime, ladies and gentlemen" - a couple of bars went by without him doing any stunts and then he sort of declared to himself "waited too long" or something like that, and shut it off. Did he just space out for a while? Was he hunting for the perfect spot on the car?

http://www.mod16.org/imagemacros/emot-iiam.gif

don't look a gift showtime cancellation in the mouth

No I was definitely stoked about that

our fury is justified

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/12/nyregion/subway-complaints-straphangers-fuming.html

https://www.6sqft.com/as-subway-delays-double-cuomo-may-cut-mta-funding-by-65-million/