Subways are for sleeping: NYC Transit survival thread

I keep meaning to go to Sunset Park to eat.

y'know, i was a little underwhelmed by tacos matamoros. got to find something better down there, i'm sure it exists.

there is one classic thread on the P Heights board called something like "Strange Beeping Sound??!?!?!"

over the course of weeks all these people are like "I hear it too what is it?" "a beep that sounds every 30 seconds" "I can't tell where it's coming from"

someone figures out that all the smoke detectors in some massive residential bldg are out of batteries and beeping in unison on every floor

sanskrit, it's not quite in sunset park but the place on 5th ave & 21st street that is a 24 hour mexican bakery has excellent chicken tacos, tinga stylee.

you know, the foodies don't have to take over EVERY thread.

it IS close to lunch time though!

noise board wu mansion

noize board killah hill projects

ian, do you know the place on 6th and 13th/14thish with excellent pernil?

CAN WE TALK ABOUT THE EATING OF FOOD ON THE TRAINS?
I ALWAYS SHOVELY FOOD INTO MY MOUTH ON THE PLATFORM BECAUSE I THINK EATING ON THE TRAIN IS TACKY.

p.s. Dr Morbius hates eating.

mike, i think so. the spanish american restaurant place? i used to live around the corner from there (14th between 6th & 7th) but only ate there once or twice, did not have pernil.

(speaking of pernil, sucelt on 14th st and 7th ave in the city is closing on xmas eve. go now to experience their cubano while you still can!)

i don't have an opinion on train eating. i've done it. not like, full meals but cookies and snacks.

i got reallly dirty looks from a bunch of people on the j train once for having a take-out container of pies n thighs fried chicken. it made the whole car stink! i wasn't eating it tho.

that stuff smells with the stink of 1000 kfc's

i think you are confusing dirty looks with jealous looks.

fried chicken odor was probably a huge improvement over normal j train odor.

eating on train is 'gainst rules (tho not nec as annoying as open stroller or bike at rush hour)

stroller i can understand, but people with bikes piss me the fuck off. it's like, what, you can't just ride across a bridge? you lazy fuck with your spandex and your helmet.

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 ;[

Also whats the deal with people eating on the trains?

I agree; if you don't have time to eat elsewhere, stay home.

hunger, mostly

seriously why do you care?

cleanliness issues.
so many mcdonalds bags littering the train.

not to mention soda bottles, potato chip bags and candy bar wrappers.

yes, it's an intrusion on my personal space, which I realize is a quaint notion that will be buried by the enabled phone yakkers underground in another 2 years.

also, if you SPILL food on me on train, I shoot.

my favorite is seeing people (mostly teenagers) spilling a soda/coffee/whatever and promptly moving on to the next car.

so the issue isn't with the eating, it is with the slobs. i get it.

for me, yes.
i personally don't eat on the trains, as i stated above, because i feel like it attracts attention and i don't like people lookin at me.

no the issue is intrusion into personal space. the proper response to food smells on public transit is to ask if you can have some too.

that's just obnoxious.

i also am not sure how the train qualifies as "personal space" but whatever.

i saw this amazing guy in the morning sitting passed out on the crowded subway car with his head propped on a starbucks cup on his knee. it kept leaking coffee with each lurch, until the inevtiable fall came which woke him up and pissed everyone around him off. it was fascinating to watch.

It's SHARED public space, ian. If you enter my nostrils (or some other orifice)....

"Excuse me, young fellow, but your amateurish, lame rapping is not up to my standards of entertainment."

that's just obnoxious.

so's bringing your smelly food on the train/bus

xpost - haha, i almost dropped my unused JAM awards tix in lame-neuron-invading-rapper's hat last night, but that probably would have been a disproportionate response

morbius, do you also hate street corner kebab sellers?
how about people eating popcorn at the movies?

and gabbneb, i feel there's a big different between passively violating someone's idea of personal space and actively harassing them.

you're from somewhere else

and you're a douchebag, if we're going to be stating the obvious.

the subway is not outdoors - you're forced into a compartment with other people and limited ability to move

my douchebaggery has well-defined and -defended contours, tho

forced is a bit of an extreme word choice. you can select any car you choose, and if you're unhappy with it, then you can move.

you guys are such nazis about the food on the train thing.

oh no godwins law bell labs loses ;_;

And how else are you supposed to get your dinner home? Jesus Christ, shut the fuck up. There are lots of people taking take-out on the train even in CLOSED containers and you can still smell it. Depending on how I feel, greasy McDonald's or whatever may not be my idea of a good time but it's the TRAIN, it's EVERYONE'S transpo.

outdoors, if you want to yell at me, i can walk away from you. in a subway, i am forced to listen to what you say after the train leaves unless i want to take life in hand by walking between cars, where you'll probably follow me shortly.

you get your dinner at home

unless i want to take life in hand by walking between cars,

^^^ i doubt you have ever done this. it is in fact quit easy if you have four working limbs.

i understand that travel time is some peoples' only time to eat - i don't wanna lock people up for the shit - but i'm not gonna pretend that that's everyone who brings food on the train or that it isn't fucking annoying

who is forcing you to take the subway? take a car haughty-pants

xxxp You suck.