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One
Day at New York Underground |
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Jason's
rules for the NYC subway posted May 30, 2003 at 12:18 pm |
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1.
Get the hell out of my way, I'm coming through.
2. Do not stop at the top of the stairs to put your MetroCard
back into your purse/wallet.
You are between me and my train.
3. Act more like a particle and less like a wave. When you're
weaving all over the platform
like a drunken sinusoidal, energetic particles like myself
-- who, in keeping with Newton's
first law of motion, like to remain in a uniform state of
motion until acted upon by an outside
force -- cannot easily get past you.
4. Slower traffic keep to the right.
5. Yield to persons crossing the platform from the express
train to the local train (or vice versa).
They need the right-of-way more than you do for that 15 seconds
of your existance on this earth.
6. Have your MetroCard out of its holster before you get to
the turnstile. Before.
7. If you are waiting for your train, suppress the urge to
wander the crowded platform aimlessly.
Pick a spot and stay exactly there. If you need to move, do
so with purpose and well-defined
direction.
8. I'm embarrassed that I even need to mention this one because
it's so bloody obvious, but get
out of the way and let everyone off the train before you attempt
to board.
(Calling Malcolm Gladwell...why haven't you written a NYer
article that explains the particularly
brain dead human behavior of people crowding into subway cars
and elevators before people
have exited them?)
9. Get the hell out of my way, I'm coming through.
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Safety:
Do what the New Yorkers do. |
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The
safety issues: While standing on the subway platform it's
easy to get into the
"look for the train" position. Nevertheless, when
you can see the lights of the train
step back a few feet behind the yellow line. This alleviates
the fear of tripping or
being pushed. I don't even think about this action anymore,
I just do it. And don't
bend over the track. You may even be surprised at the direction
the train will arrive.
When ridding the trains, at the busy stops many people will
exit, so don't crowd
toward the doors. Be patient and also be a little aware of
pickpockets when getting
jostled at this time as well as in any crowded situation.
At smaller stations move
toward the doors before the train reaches the station. Usually
the local stops require
more exit preparation time.
"Traveling late at night" is probably a discussion
topic among your group. If you are
on the well traveled Manhattan lines you'll have a longer
wait but I personally have
never seen any problems. Stay together and in the middle of
the train. Always have
your Metro Pass ready when you reach the turnstile as many
times a train will be
pulling into the station just as you arrive and you will hate
missing a train late at
night.
More
complex stations, such as Canal Street at Broadway, Fulton
Street, and even
59th Street on Broadway are incredibly confusing. When you
exit to the street, stop
and remember the street corner!!! Later this action can save
you 15 minutes of being
lost in the endless caverns of these stations. Take my personal
word for this! Even
after years of using these stations I still get confused.
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Getting
around New York City can be a daunting task. Traffic and crowds,
combined
with confusion and getting lost can make even the most pleasant
visit to New York City
a nightmare. But it doesn't have to be that way! Review the
information below and
you'll be well on your way to navigating the New York's subway
and buses like a native.
Intro
to the New York Subway and Bus System
Mass transit generally falls into two categories, buses and
subways. Subways serve
much of Manhattan and the boroughs very well and in those
areas where the subways
are not ideal, there are buses that can get you where you
need to go. If you're interested
in some trivia and history, check out the MTA's web site for
more information on the
New York Subway. |
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New
York Subway and Bus Fares
As of May 4, 2003, New York subway and bus fares are $2.00
per trip.
(Express buses, running from the boroughs directly into the
city are
$4.00 each way.) There is a one-day "Fun Pass" that
entitles the bearer
to unlimited rides for $7. For visitors staying for a longer
time, you can
buy a one week unlimited card for $21 or an unlimited monthly
card for
$70. The one day card is valid from first use to 3 AM the
following day;
the 7-day or 30-day unlimited cards run out at midnight on
7th or 30th
day of use. To help you make your MetroCard decision, you
can find more
information on the MTA web site. You can buy MetroCards at
subway
stations with cash, credit or ATM/debit cards. Be aware: buses
only
accept exact fare in coin or tokens -- drivers cannot make
change.
Of course, you can also pay with a MetroCard. Senior citizens
and
those with qualifying disabilities can get reduced fare MetroCards
that entitle them to pay half-fare. |
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New York Subway Maps
and Routes
See the Subway and Bus Map Index for maps of the outer borough
buses
and the Staten Island Railroad.
In general, trains run every 2-5 minutes during rush hour, every
5-15
minutes during the day and approximately every 20 minutes from
midnight
'til 5 a.m. Check out bus schedules for all five |
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A
Day in the Subway, as It Rolls Up a Century |
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By
RANDY KENNEDY |
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A
New Yorker just one day shy of turning 100 years old, the subway
kept crazy hours yesterday.
In other words, there were no hours it did not keep. As its
neighbors around
the world locked up their stations and turned out their lights,
the subway started a new day,
just as it has more than 36,000 times since Oct. 27, 1904.
A few minutes after midnight, as she always does, Celeste Clarke
stood inside a red
brick building looking out over the vast Jamaica Maintenance
Yard at the southern
tip of Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens, the nesting place
where more than a
thousand subway cars from the E, F, R, V and G lines return
at the end of their runs,
to be washed and swept, greased and patched, and then sent out
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Ms.
Clarke stood in front of a big green panel with 86 levers that
looked like
something designed by Willy Wonka, above which sat an antique-looking
lighted map of the yard and its fanned-out tracks. To the squelch
of walkie-talkies
and the light rock on the radio, Ms. Clarke walked up and down,
her hands in
motion like a maestro, opening the switches and signals that
pumped trains
back into the system like valves in a giant heart.
"I'm like the Vanna White of the subway system," she
said.
The levers she moves look like the ones her predecessors moved
when the
subway started. The trains she dispatches still run on the same
kind of wheels
(steel), sit atop rails of the same gauge (4 feet, 8.5 inches)
and draw the same
blue-sparking direct current (625 volts) from the ominous third
rail. The trains
themselves might no longer have straps or cane seats or ceiling
fans, and the
price of boarding one might have increased 3,900 percent over
a century, from
a nickel to $2. But the experience of taking the subway in New
York has changed
little in its fundamentals since 1904, drawing an unbroken line
back to that first day,
when Mayor George B. McClellan grabbed a silver control handle
and, at 2:35 that
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Trying
to describe a day in the subway is a little like trying to take
a snapshot of the
wind. It's everywhere and nowhere in particular. You can feel
it and hear it yet chase
in vain to capture the essence of the life lived along some
700 miles of track, inside
468 stations, where New Yorkers have done everything they've
done on the streets
above and more. They've been born there and died there. They've
lived there and
eaten there and slept there and dreamed the dreams they missed
during the too-short
nights before. They've found their muses and their soul mates.
They've lost their
wallets and their patience and, sometimes, their minds.
Today, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and thousands of others will
celebrate the
subway's centennial with ceremonies and speeches. But telling
the story of an
average day in the subway - in all its mundane monstrosity -
is as good a birthday
present as any for a working monument that helped invent New
York City by holding
it together, day after day.
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T 12:05 a.m.,
as Ms. Clarke was pumping fresh trains into the lines, Larry
Taylor, 41,
a security guard at an office building on Columbus Circle was
riding the longest one,
the A train, which runs 31 miles from the top of Manhattan through
Brooklyn and
Queens and then across Jamaica Bay, where passing gulls drop
clams on the tracks
to shatter their shells.
As he does every night Mr. Taylor was heading back home from
work in Midtown,
joining the first waves of night riders: the graveyard-shift
workers, club goers,
case-carrying musicians and sleepy, wandering homeless people
who populate
the trains from midnight to dawn. |
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"They
call the A train the 'Animal Express' because there are so many
wild things riding here at night,
" Mr. Taylor said, his legs stretched stiffly into the
middle of the aisle, the Barcalounger freedom of
the night rider. "If you don't see it on this train, it
ain't anywhere to be seen." This night was mostly
calm, but Mr. Taylor said he had seen some things that amazed
even him on the weekends, when the
drinkers come out in force and "the real function at the
junction gets started."
"I might snooze once in a while on the job," he said.
"But no way, no how I'm snoozing on this line.
Homey definitely don't play that." |
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On
another A train headed to Bedford-Stuyvesant, Natasha Abbott,
23, was telling two friends her great
subway story, the one about the magician. One night last month
aboard the A, she said, a magician was
trying to pull a quarter from behind a girl's ear. The girl's
boyfriend misunderstood and, just as a fist
was on its way to the magician's face, a dove burst from the
magician's breast pocket and flew out into
the car. "It was so intense," Ms. Abbott recalled.
"The whole train started laughing."
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By
2:15 a.m., on another A train making its way from Utica Avenue
back to Manhattan, the cars
were starting to get that familiar overnight saloon smell. LaRay
Farrow, a onetime subway singer
and now a salesman at an electronics store, was headed to the
West Village to a bar called Alibi,
and was trying to prime the pump.
"I get my buzz going on the train before I get to the bar,"
explained Mr. Farrow, 30, sipping from
a bottle of Beck's in a brown paper bag. "Beer is too expensive
at the bar so you got to do your
work before game time.
" He reminisced about his first years in New York, when
money was tight, and he took that leap
that so many other brave and desperate subway riders have taken:
He decided to sing and pass
around the cap for his supper. It was one afternoon on the platform
at the Broadway Junction
station in East New York, where the crowd was tough and the
police were tougher. |
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He
chose Donny Hathaway's lovely "A Song for You," which
has a few lines oddly appropriate
for a subway singer:
"I've acted out my life in stages
With 10,000 people watching
But we're alone now
And I'm singing this song for you."
But his career in subway music ended early and badly.
He was arrested.
"No joke," he said, adding: "That was a New York
City come-to-realize kind of
moment."
But in a subway system that practically invented the mass transit
busker - mimes,
doo-wop groups, mariachis, singers dressed in horse suits, Michael
Jackson
impersonators, people who play everything from kazoos to zithers
to musical
saws - other performers sometimes fare much better.
ORENZO LaRoc, stepped out of a cab on 42nd Street in front of
Grand Central
Terminal at 6:37 a.m. It was still dark, but Mr. LaRoc, the
Heifetz of the subways
and probably one of the highest-earning musicians in the system,
no longer has
to take the train to his gigs. He plays a strange electric instrument
with a Plexiglas
body the size of a violin and the longer neck of a viola.
His lone roadie, Robert Colon, unloaded Mr. LaRoc's equipment
from the trunk of
the cab - three amplifiers, a car battery, a microphone, a folding
table, a folding
chair and a box of compact disks - and tied it onto two carts,
which they haul
down to the mezzanine level at Grand Central and drag through
the turnstiles
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For
a performer as successful as Mr. LaRoc, the show unfolded with
almost scientific precision.
It began with Mr. LaRoc laying out seed money, four one-dollar
bills - it takes money to make
money, he explains. He then repeated only two songs, both of
his own composition -
"Savage Lover" and "Montuno in F." He keeps
the list short, he says, because he estimates that
his audience turns over completely every four and a half minutes.
And his entire concert lasted only about 2 hours, through the
height of the jam-packed rush,
during which he sold 67 of his CD's at $10 a copy and had a
wad of bills piled in his violin case.
By 9:30, it was time to pack up. "We made money,"
he announced triumphantly
." The cops left us alone."
He added: "If I stayed, I'd clean up, but I'd be taxing
my creative energy." |
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RUSH
hour was now winding down, the last eddies of office workers
swirling out of
trains at Penn Station and Times Square. It was 9:45, almost
time for Millie Mendez,
a platform conductor on the uptown 1, 2, 3 and 9 platform in
Times Square, to take
off for lunch.
"Lunch, breakfast, whatever you want to call it,"
she said.
"I call it lunch, baby. I start here at 6."
A train pulled in and Ms. Mendez - who has become somewhat famous
just for doing
her job and unleashing her foghorn of a voice, which has earned
her the nickname
"the Ethel Merman of the subway" - bounded into the
crowd for the last time before
her break, imposing order and enforcing manners.
"Step aside," she boomed. "Let 'em out! Let 'em
out! Please and thank you! Thank
you and please!"
As the train departed, she was asked whether she had any wisdom
to impart on the
occasion of the centennial. Not much, she said, other than Millie's
First Commandment
of the Subways:
"Don't worry, honey. There's always another train coming." |
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Michele
Acosta, 38, from Bay Ridge - legal secretary, mother of two,
wife of a police
officer - was among the last wave of the rush-hour commuters
to arrive in Times
Square on the R train, long renowned as one of the slowest in
the system. But like
many working mothers, she does not mind. She had a seat. She
had her book -
"How to Make Millions in Real Estate in Three Years Starting
With No Cash."
And best of all, she had anonymity and quiet, the kind of quiet
that only New Yorkers
can hear. Yes, the train wheels might be squeaking and the train
deafening, but no
one is talking to you, calling you or asking you to do anything.
"Riding the subway is
like a vacation," she said, "because at home - it
never stops."
The trains do not either, though they were beginning to thin
out. By 12:30, the crowds
were sparse enough so that riders on an uptown No. 2 train could
easily recognize
their fellow passenger: Mr. Bloomberg, who made a campaign vow
to ride the
subways and has valiantly stuck to it. He was on his way to
Columbus Circle, standing
as usual, with his bodyguards, and letting the fellow voters
have the seats.
"It's nice to see him on the subway," said Vojtech
Bystricky, who has spotted the
mayor underground more than once. He added, appreciatively,
"He is as likable
as a Republican can get."
With the autumn sun beginning its early descent, the tide of
humanity began to flow
back the other way. Ms. Acosta was back on the train, taking
a different, faster route
home, the 6 train from Grand Central to Union Square and then
the R - a sacrifice of a
seat, maybe, for speed at the end of a long day. Paul Schneider,
24, a headhunter
from TriBeCa, was getting off the 6 at Canal Street, along the
route of the original
subway line that ran from the old City Hall station through
Midtown and up to 145th
Street. Though his daily routine has blurred his appreciation
of the great institution
through which he travels, he grew almost patriotic when thinking
about the landmark
the subway would reach the next day. |
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"It
typifies New York City," he said, and then added, taking
in the station, "Look at all
the trash people throw around. They wouldn't do that in an old
church."
As midnight approached last night at the Jamaica yard, a tower
operator, Marianne Kreuter,
was ending her shift. She was pulling the big levers in the
room overlooking
the yard, preparing to send trains out into a new century. "It's
like choreographing a ballet,
'' Ms. Kreuter said as she flipped the switches on the control
panel. "And you
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references |
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http://www.nycsubway.org/
http://www.essentialbigapple.com/subway.html
http://www-tech.mit.edu/Subway/
http://www.cmap.nypirg.org/netmaps/Straps/Straphangers.asp
http://www.nyctourist.com/subway_page1.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Subway
http://www.earthcam.com/usa/newyork/timessquare/
http://www.newyorkmetro.com/ |
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