Smells like Brooklyn
Homeless man smoking In 45th Street Station. We'll cut him some slack....
SubwayA collection of 23 posts
Uh-oh! Oreo!
Oreo packet, rip'd open and crush'd on the subway floor. Tragic. —for the kid in all...
Coney Island lifeguard blues
Brooklyn-bound N train, Thursday evening. Leaving Ditmars Boulevard, End of the line, He slouches through the doors from the next...
Never again
The never-agains are starting to come thick and fast. I realized already that I may have eaten at our favorite Greek restaurant, Aliada, for the last time. But just now I realized that I will never...
You're a real gone guy
He's highstepping up the subway stairs ahead of me—tall, soda-straw thin, hair cut Ivy League style and slicked back on top, long sideburns curving to points near the corners of his mouth—back...
Steinway Street Station
A sign at my local subway stop warns me that the station is managed by one Crythen Langhorne. Every time I see this sign, I feel as if I have somehow wandered into New Crobuzon. And...