#56: 86th St 5 Train & Rookie Mistake
This morning, I went to the hospital to get my stitches removed. Since there’s no nice way to get there, I decided to ride the subway wave. This means just take whichever train comes first at each...
View Article#54: 50th St 6 Train & Waldorf Watching
The Waldorf=Astoria is fancy. It’s a New York institution. It’s grand. It’s presidential. It’s all of that. It also might … just might… have been a black-tie Grindr gala tonight. Wed-Sat the...
View Article#53: 53rd/3rd Stop & Escalators
Gawker wrote this mean article about people who ride (instead of walk) on the escalator. Wha?!?! UP: I ride up the escalator every morning so that I can play a little more backgammon on my iphone....
View Article#52: L Train & Peeping Tom
In case you’re wondering, I’ve been reading over your shoulder since before smartphones existed. I was there next to you reading your newspaper, hoping you didn’t turn the page too fast before I...
View Article#50: Times Sq N Train & End of Days
Times Square at 11 PM on a Friday night is how I imagine it will be during the apocalypse. A gross slice of humanity confined to a small, brightly lit area. Everyone’s releasing the panic pheromones...
View Article#49: 33rd 6 Train & New Digs
An old friend whom I adore bought a new place last week. He moved from a Park Ave address uptown to a Park Ave address less uptown. I went over this morning with a housewarming present to make a...
View Article#55: 77th/Lex 6 Train & Crazy Eyes
Riding public transport is a guarantee that you’ll encounter crazy people. There’s no way around it. For the crazies, there’s an a important secondary spectrum, of Niceness: Mean crazy – - – - – -...
View Article#47: Nassau G &“Dermatologist”
I departed from work a little early today to get to a dermatologist appointment. In nyc, “dermatologist” is a euphemism for a lot of things. Basically, your dermatologist will do everything up until...
View Article#48: 53rd E & Xylophone
On my ride home, there was a new kind of subway busker. The Xylophonist. Seeing him work those bars gave me two feelings: 1) Wonderment. How did he get this piece of equipment into the subway?...
View Article#45: 72nd 1 Train & Tom Petty
I was invited as a plus-one to the Tom Petty concert. Cool as a cucumber, I accepted the invite, and made my way to the venue via the 1 train. Tom Petty seems like such a familiar name to me that I...
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