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“How the hell can you run a goddamn railroad without swearing? “
I watched two classic 1970s New York City movies this week — Taxi Driver and The Taking Of Pelham One Two Three. And I liked the latter a lot more than the former. Pelham is by far the best Quentin … Continue reading
The Subway Sings Somewhere — Now In Video
You may remember that one of my songs for February Album Writing Month was “The Subway Sings Somewhere, which combined field recordings of the NYC subway with harmonica and guitar and various loops and electronic treatments to create a song … Continue reading
The Subway Sings Somewhere
Today’s song is The Subway Sings Somewhere, the latest addition to my new genre of music, “electromonica.” Although this is probably closer to “industromonica.” New York City’s newer computerized subway cars, first introduced about five years ago, have a new … Continue reading
Goodbye to South Ferry
The old South Ferry station on the IRT is about to be replaced with a new, larger station, so yesterday I roped mary_wroth into a brief photo expedition to the old station. I grew up in the public-transit wastelands of … Continue reading
Stabbed By An Antique
On a crowded rush-hour IRT local, I said to this woman, “You’re going to hurt someone with that thing,” pointing to the six-inch hatpin with a sharp tip protruding at eye-level from her hat. “I’ve been told that several times … Continue reading
Service Advisories
This great piece of what the Times calls “Op-Art,” by Evan Eisenberg, is for some reason not at all available online, so I’m reproducing it here. The image is large but worth it. (Update: The Times fixed their site and … Continue reading
Subway Flooding: Yes, It’s Gotten Worse
As someone who’s been riding the subways for more than 30 years, and commuting on them for about 20 years, I’ve been asking myself recently, “Did the subways always collapse completely every time it rains?” I don’t remember the magnitude … Continue reading
A Strike Song
Just in time for its conclusion, I’ve written a song about the transit strike. The song is still pertinent, though, since the issues raised by the strike aren’t going to go away when service returns. I’ve taken some creative license … Continue reading
Then they came for the transit workers…
My grandfather worked multiple manual-labor jobs for much of his youth, and finally “made it” when he got a job for NYC Transit as a token booth clerk. He bought a house and raised his son on that salary and … Continue reading