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Rather than allowing subway and bus fares to rise while service erodes, we need to be lowering prices and expanding services - regardless of the costs. Public
I'm frugal. It's often cheaper to take the subway. And I'm an environmentalist, which my mother instilled in me, so I really believe in public transportation. And finally, I love the proximity to people in the subway.
I take the subway all the time here in New York. I love people watching and trying to figure out everybody's background, especially teenagers - they're so uninhibited when they display puppy love. I concoct stories in my mind: 'Are you guys like Romeo and Juliet?'
Churches and trains
they all look the same to me now
they shoot you some place
while we ache to come home somehow.
I once asked a policeman how far it was to the subway. he said, "I don't know, no one has ever made it".
Down the sidewalk
where laborers feed their dirty
glistening torsos sandwiches
and Coca-Cola, with yellow helmets
on. They protect them from falling
bricks, I guess.
Cracks Down On Subway Acrobats
Airports and train stations are where you get to cry
I would never jump under a subway car because that would delay all the people behind me. How inconsiderate!
In New York, we're always confined with spaces. Our restaurants are difficult to navigate as cooks and to operate. We fight against the buildings we run in New York.
Where do the homeless make toast?
Brownstone building overlooking the East River. A bunch of BMWs and
Upstairs on a bus! It's Unbelievable
Taxis, I loved taxis. Not the ones I came home drunk in, but the ones I caught to airports or railway stations.
fast-food/gas-pump
If people didn't read books on the subway, underground journeys would be dreary.
For most of the nineteen-seventies, the official route map of the New York City subway system was a beautiful thing.
People born in Queens, raised to say that each morning they get on the subway and "go to the city," have a resentment of Manhattan, of the swiftness of its life and success of the people who live there.
Pizza Hut, and then Pizza Express, before seeking sanctuary in the doorway of a Domino's Pizza.
Although it was constructed in 1536, the New York subway system boasts an annual maintenance budget of nearly $8, currently stolen, and it does a remarkable job of getting New Yorkers from Point A to an indeterminate location somewhere in the tunnel leading to point B.
Newt Gingrich has criticized 'New York elites' who ride the subway. One of those subway elites threw up on my pants this morning.
I love New York, I love the smell of New York ... I love the subway.
I was in the underground until I left Germany.
Sometime in 2009, a few Romanians compromised the sandwich chain Subway. Over the next 2 years, they managed to steal somewhere between $3 million and $10 million, an amount that would allow them to eat fresh for quite some time.
outside the city. Fortunately for them,
From my first days in Washington D.C., where I rolled a whole four downtown blocks without seeing a single shop, cafe, bar or restaurant I could not access, to the beautifully accessible buses in New York City, I was in heaven.
To a large extent, we're working hard to fulfill the consumer demand for Subway sandwiches.
I always like to find those little mom-and-pop sandwich places, or diners. Those are my favorite kind of places.
I absolutely love the public transportation system in New York. No matter what, no matter how people complain, it is the best in the world.
New York is a city of conversations overheard, of people at the next restaurant table (micrometers away) checking your watch, of people reading the stories in your newspaper on the subway train.
I sometimes read on the subway, but I'm a hopeless eavesdropper and get easily distracted by strangers' conversations.
I'm lucky to live in New York, a city that offers so many options for lunch. I can pick up dumplings from a Midtown food truck, grab empanadas by the dozen in Spanish Harlem or get a fantastic bowl of ramen in the East Village.
I loved the abandoned subway stations, rushing past the darkened platforms, the sprawl of graffiti like old letters. Letters left by ghosts.
I lived on Fulton Street in an enormous studio - I needed a bicycle to get to the toilet, about half a mile between two streets - next to Wall Street.
Back when I lived in Brooklyn, I'd sometimes take the Q train all the way out to Coney Island and back, and work on my laptop. There's something about pushy New Yorkers looking over your shoulder that really makes you produce sentences.
Long before Starbucks popularized the phrase 'the third place' - somewhere to interact outside of work and home - it was neighborhood restaurants that helped to define places like Union Square.
London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome! With eager thirst, by folly or by fate, Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state.
I try to preserve whatever balance society has between public and personal life. I never try to eat on the subway. I never try to listen to loud music on the subway.
The trains were the beating heart of the New York graffiti scene.
In New York
whose subway trains in particular have been 'tattooed' with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame
not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements . Even the most chronically dispossessed appear prepared to endorse the legitimacy of the 'haves.
In New York, the trains run all night, and the cabs are so cheap.
Every day in New York City is a test. Work hard and pass this test, you get a chocolate cookie. From a strange man on the subway. A man without pants.
live in New York and you got used to public transport.
I'm very underground.
42nd Street with its quarter mile of marquees offering porn of all types, colors, sizes, and flavors.
There is nothing Tourettic about the New York City subways.
neighborhood, the place I left each
A great way to be left alone on the subway is to appear to be deep in conversation with a small knife.
When I'm on the road, restaurants are like gyms: I know where I want to be in each city.
go-go hall on my way home from school.
You sit or stand in the subway, and you look around - I do, because I don't have a phone so I'm not playing a game - and you see people.
My first job was as a sandwich artist at Subway.
Public transit situates us so that we are given license to accept what's right in front of us, but will likely arouse our desire to compare our narrative to someone else's, to give ourselves permission to speculate upon a person's private space, or life, with no fear of recourse or punishment.
Public transportation is for jerks and lesbians.
You can't understand a city without using its public transportation system.
For years I did most of my reading on the F train between Brooklyn and Manhattan. I had long commutes, and I read tons of books on that train; I loved it.
A feeling of sadness that only bus stations have.
I've definitely run from the cops in the New York City subways.
Where do you find a stomach on a Thursday afternoon in Reno? "Chinatown?" suggests someone. "Costco?" "Butcher Boys." Tracy pulls his phone from a pocket. "Hello, I'm from the university" - the catchall preamble for unorthodox inquiries.
Transportation is an essential part of our lives, and in New York City where driving is not a viable option most of the time, public transportation and taxis are the only way to get around.
I've been working on 'The New York Times' crossword puzzle on the subway. I can make it until about Wednesday.
I sit at my desk
each night with no place to go,
opening the wrinkled maps of Milwaukee and Buffalo,
the whole U.S.,
its cemeteries, its arbitrary time zones,
through routes like small veins, capitals like small stones.
In New York you can just walk out and be among people. You're on the subway among people, you go to cafes, you can talk to people.
And then there are the subway readers of difficult books. I like to imagine that New Yorkers are more literate than the riders of other American metropolises.
They seal the subway change-booth guy up inside this thing with bullet-proof glass, closed in on all sides, it's like some kind of Houdini torture tank of doom. How do you breathe in there? It looks like if you put your hand over the change slot, you could suffocate him in thirty seconds.
If you're a die-hard "foodie," hop off the road in DuBois and enjoy a Subway sandwich made at a place that is eighty percent gas station.
There is something universal about being stood up in a city restaurant between one and two - a spiritual no-man's-land, whose blasted trees, entrenchments, and ratholes we all share, disarmed by the gullibility of our hearts.
I've been known to write on the Underground in London and on the subway in New York. I have two or three cafes in Paris that I go into. I find a corner with a little shade, and I can work.
On a New York subway you get fined for spitting, but you can throw up for nothing.
Liberty trains for liberty.
New York is so diverse. When you're on the street or in the subway, you're experiencing more of the diversity of New York.
I never leave home without my writing notebook, and get a lot of writing done in transit. One great place to create is while riding the subways of New York City, where I live.
Laundromats ... like a waiting room for people who didn't go anywhere
Hello from the gutters of NYC, which is filled with dog manure, vomit, stale wine, urine,and blood. Hello from the sewers of NYC which swallow up these delicacies when they are washed away by the sweeper trucks.
When I was in school, I used to look out the window and see the big red double-deck buses driving by. It just looked so free.
I'd been living on the streets of New York, and I was sleeping at my friends' houses, sometimes in the subway.
I try to use public transport, always.
If a train stops at a train station, what do you think happens at a work station?
Bus routes reach the most obscure corners of Paris. There's also the Metro - and especially the great Line No. 1, which runs on tires under the Champs-Elysees and beyond.
On Melbourne summer mornings the green trams go rolling in stately progress down tunnels thick with leaves: the bright air carries along the avenue their patient chime, the chattering of their wheels
I've done my share of busking, and it's fun until it isn't. There are musicians in the subways that will make you cry, they're so good.
London underground took me on a tour of all the hidden places, the disused shafts and staircases ... that was very interesting.
Regular spot to hide out and eat my lunch. I selected the book I had been
What could be safer than the bus center with its lamps and wheels?
Where do the homeless have 90 per cent of their accidents?
I tend to work in coffee shops. I need to get out of the house, and, well, I need the coffee.
When I was in New York it was like a maze, a rat maze, going from one little box to another little box and passing through passageways to get from one safe haven to another.
There may be a perception that, with franchises, they're all the same, so that limits the ability to experiment. But that's not true. We've always kept two slots open on the menu of each Subway franchise - slots that franchisees can use to come up with their own sandwich ideas.
East 103rd, New York, New York
I hate sandwiches at New York delis. Too much meat on the sandwich. It's like a cow with a cracker on either side. "Would you like anything else with the pastrami sandwich?" "Yeah, a loaf of bread and some other people!"
One doesn't go on television for the Manhattan crowd. You buy the sides of buses for that.
When I first moved to New York, someone who thought they knew more than I did said: "You have to always look like you know where you're going when you get out of the subway."
New York City is my playground.
New York cabdrivers - always little rays of sunshine.
Museums, I love museums.
...the narrow arched entries that continually vomited passengers.
The underground is not a place but a way of life. You can be underground most anywhere, from the Upper West Side of Manhattan to Hermosa Beach, California.
I like airplanes. I like anywhere that isn't a proper place. I like in betweens.
The countryside they
From 1985 to 1994, I lived in Manhattan in a big old loft right off Times Square. I could walk to work, which was in a couple of Broadway theaters, to Howard Stern's studio, and to 30 Rock for 'Letterman' and 'SNL.' Even in New York, walking to work is homey and folksy, like living in a small town.