What a whiner.
The subway is crowded at rush hour? Who knew? Yes, let’s all work from home, bar tenders, waitresses, car mechanics, bus drivers, cops and firemen. That will work out nice, won’t it? What a jerk.
If she is a native New Yorker, she’s evidently grown up in post-Giuliani conditions. Before then, I remember well the sound, the conditions, the smell, the ancient, failing trains covered with graffiti, not to mention the winos and muggers that were far more endemic than now…
I can only dimly remember how bad it was in the late Fifties, when the IRT banged and shrieked so loudly that even hands over ears wouldn’t help. Not a cat under the car, a cat being flayed alive under each car. Burn marks and flats all over the railheads, and presumptively building up on the wheels as well. And then along come the Democrats in the mid-Seventies, and no money, and no West Side Highway … and ‘postwar technology’ arrives on some lines. Four bolts hold the air conditioner… and all four are made to come loose without comment.
By comparison, this sounds like a child of privilege who thinks her writing is more clever than it is, and appears to be under the delusion that lots of people on the Internet will concur.
“The People?” Could have been worse, she didn’t say “THOSE people…”
Maybe Uber wasn’t running that day so she had to visit the “underworld.”
At least the Soupy Sales classic from the 60s, “As The Subway Goes Rolling Along” was written in fun. Hey, Soupy wasn’t a whiner!
And remember the days when you could not find one single subway car on some lines that was not covered by graffitti.
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Did you check out the jam session with the girl with the ukelele and the guy with the drums that pops up after the singing conductor? Cool!
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Young, Digitally Savvy and Just Fine With a Little Grime in Their Subway Cars
By SARAH MASLIN NIRSEPT. 9, 2016
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