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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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Most
subways of the world are, at least, mostly civilized. NYC
subways are, shall we say, not always so perfect. None the
less, without underground transportation I would never visit
much of Manhattan as the buses are achingly slow.
Originally,
several subway companies built the elevated and underground
systems starting over 100 years ago. And although we don't
use the terminology of my youth much anymore in describing
what train to take, you will now know why the cars are so
different from one trip to another.
The smallest cars and by far the most intimate and charming
of the three major lines are run by the IRT, the numbered
trains: 1,9,2,3,4,5,6, and 7. This line runs the famous red
cars for the last 30 years or so and is just now replacing
them with 1) the nicer metallic cars put into service 10 years
ago and 2) the new, most sterile cars ever invented. Be prepared
to feel as though you are traveling in a mobile MASH unit.
They also offer no comfort from the bench seats. I apologize
profusely for the inadequacy of the metro designers.
The IRT line maintains the shortest and narrowest cars by
a wide margin. Several turns, near Wall Street, lines 2 and
3, and along the 7 Line near the Queensboro (59th Street)
Bridge, cannot be made with a wider or longer carriage.
The IND and BMT have larger cars, some much more comfortable
than others, and move many people from the far reaches of
Queens, Brooklyn, and The Bronx into Manhattan.
IRT stands for Interborough Rapid Transit. BMT is Brooklyn
Manhattan Transit, and IND is the Independent line.
Next we'll go over how New Yorkers figure the quickest as
well as the most reliable transit to get somewhere.
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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.
- Richard |
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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.
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 again. |
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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 fall afternoon, started the subway in motion
for the first time. |
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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 near the 4, 5, and 6 trains, his regular stage. |
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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 can call me Georgette Balanchine."
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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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