Subways are for sleeping: NYC Transit survival thread

fair warning: i will be on the F train with a stroller early afternoon on monday. kid needs a flu shot. we will not be coming to brooklyn, however.

early afternoon is OK!

this fall I started escorting my (post-stroller) tween to school during 8am rush on the 1 train -- ugh.

actually mid-afternoon return trip is even worse w/all the other school kids raising heck

i have still not figured out a way to get from here to school/work in less than an hour using combos of the l, g, 4, 5, n, q, 2. there is no hope. the best is when i have to work on weekends and service changes make it even longer! anyway, screw the 2nd avenue line, mta please give a way to get from north to south brooklyn without going through manhattan!! (the g does not count; it is useless)

So did you notice they announced there'll be no base fare increase, but they're still planning one for unlimited MetroCards!?

Sign here:

http://www.haltthehike.org/

I signed!

Also my new train is the G. We'll see how that goes, but for now it's a novelty.

i fall asleep almost every morning on the way to work now that my commute is just one train for 40 minutes.

but the G to what, Laurel? You have to get to Manhattan weekdaily, yes?

Being shoved into car by some old man on a packed Saturday night train at Union Square reminded me why I FUCKING HATE DECEMBER/CHRISTMAS IDIOT HORDES.

great that they're exanding the G further into brooklyn so all the Park Slope yuppies can move to kensington.

NOT GREAT is that service into queens still runs on bizarre schedules. It should run all the way to Jackson Heights EVERY TIME. That would open up a huge area of queens along Northern Blvd.

some asshat with an ipod called my friend a "fucking fatass" after he squeezeed onto a crowded L car

i find that people are pretty inconsiderate year-round

tho i guess it's a little harder when everyone's wearing bulky jackets

G to the 7, Morbs. Which so far has been fine, so much easier than the 4/5 in the AM.

It should run all the way to Jackson Heights EVERY TIME
Are you sure about this, Dan? I have never, ever seen a G train at Roosevelt, I think it is only supposed to be there at some weird hour.

regular G service through Queens would be nice - you could live cheap up there and still see your friends in now -shockingly expensive Greenpoint.

expanding the G further into brooklyn WHEN? All I saw was some vague promise. It would make my life easier, esp on weekends.

so all the Park Slope yuppies can move to kensington.

They won't be happy when they get there, not for awhile.

don't worry, they are all coming to live in crown heights with me, off the 4 express

Those people are all flooding into Sunset Park, and soon Boro Park of all places. You could drop a brownstone into floating shit barge and someone would pay 2mil for it. Will anything stop the swarm?

a Depression!

the suburbs becoming fashionable again

LET US ALL MOVE TO A HOUSE ON STATEN ISLAND.

also, lol at that petition "what is your favorite thing about NYC transit?"
anyone writing in with something other than "24 hr service" is a fule.

how about that mariachi band that usta play on the F train

or the mariachi band that i see ALMOST every morning on the L? no, fuck them. dude whacked me in the knee once with his upright bass and my tolerance for subway performers has been diminished ever since.

i enjoy it when gentrifying whites complain about other gentrifying whites.

LET US ALL MOVE TO A HOUSE ON STATEN ISLAND.

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Shut up, Park Slope-Skrit.

god, do any of you ever read the prospect heights board on brooklynian? so much barely-concealed racism and classism. not helped by the fact that several regular posters are cops (who, in one particularly upsetting moment, made a joke about a rape victim but then freaked out at being called a pig [separate threads])

xpp
i think dave reads this board.

i took the boy to sunset park sunday for tacos matamoros and a snowy walk through the park. at one point i looked him in the eye and said ONE DAY THIS WILL ALL BE OURS.

lololol CLASSIC.

so much barely-concealed racism and classism

otm but I don't read them much for that reason

I pretty much stick only to the WHEN IS THAT RESTAURANT ON VANDERBILT OPENING threads

THE THAI PLACE ON WASHINGTON AMIRITE

I keep meaning to go to Sunset Park to eat.

y'know, i was a little underwhelmed by tacos matamoros. got to find something better down there, i'm sure it exists.

there is one classic thread on the P Heights board called something like "Strange Beeping Sound??!?!?!"

over the course of weeks all these people are like "I hear it too what is it?" "a beep that sounds every 30 seconds" "I can't tell where it's coming from"

someone figures out that all the smoke detectors in some massive residential bldg are out of batteries and beeping in unison on every floor

sanskrit, it's not quite in sunset park but the place on 5th ave & 21st street that is a 24 hour mexican bakery has excellent chicken tacos, tinga stylee.

you know, the foodies don't have to take over EVERY thread.

it IS close to lunch time though!

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ian, do you know the place on 6th and 13th/14thish with excellent pernil?

CAN WE TALK ABOUT THE EATING OF FOOD ON THE TRAINS?
I ALWAYS SHOVELY FOOD INTO MY MOUTH ON THE PLATFORM BECAUSE I THINK EATING ON THE TRAIN IS TACKY.

p.s. Dr Morbius hates eating.

mike, i think so. the spanish american restaurant place? i used to live around the corner from there (14th between 6th & 7th) but only ate there once or twice, did not have pernil.

(speaking of pernil, sucelt on 14th st and 7th ave in the city is closing on xmas eve. go now to experience their cubano while you still can!)

i don't have an opinion on train eating. i've done it. not like, full meals but cookies and snacks.

i got reallly dirty looks from a bunch of people on the j train once for having a take-out container of pies n thighs fried chicken. it made the whole car stink! i wasn't eating it tho.

that stuff smells with the stink of 1000 kfc's

i think you are confusing dirty looks with jealous looks.

fried chicken odor was probably a huge improvement over normal j train odor.

eating on train is 'gainst rules (tho not nec as annoying as open stroller or bike at rush hour)

stroller i can understand, but people with bikes piss me the fuck off. it's like, what, you can't just ride across a bridge? you lazy fuck with your spandex and your helmet.