Walking to the subway just before nine, I could see the smoke from this Greenpoint warehouse fire, still rising in a thick column way off in the distance. Random bag check in the Steinway Street subway station. I didn't get picked, but as always I was prepared to
I keep meaning to post a quick overview of what we've done since the start of the weekend, but as I put it off the list of things to mention becomes longer and the task of reporting more daunting. I'll just plunge in, like a dog
If you saw me on that evening subway ride and judged me for my reading material, a battered, torn copy of Snow Crash, how would your opinion have changed if you'd known I was toting four volumes of Proust in my shoulder bag?
Was fortunate enough this morning to have some friends driving to Woodside at 6:00 am to catch the Long Island Railroad into Penn Station. Though our train was running 14 minutes late, it was still a pretty quick trip into the city. I walked to the office from Penn
Saw a kid on the subway the other day wearing a great T-shirt: STUPIDITYIS NOT A CRIME... ...so you're free to go.
It's a sad failing of mine, I know, but I'm afraid I can't get out of everyone's way at once. This is only a problem because you wouldn't let me get to the empty space at the center of the
See, if you would move into the empty space at the center of the train, I wouldn't have to bump you trying to get to the empty space at the center of the train myself.
The police were inspecting bags at the 30th Avenue subway station in Astoria this morning. Little table set up off to one side of the turnstiles. Maybe this makes some people feel safe (particularly people who don't ride the subways), but it only makes me feel as if
So I'm getting onto an extremely crowded 6 train this morning at 59th St./Lexington, moving smoothly across the train through the narrow corridor left in the wake of the commuters just debarked, when suddenly I trip and am falling, falling toward two stout women and a baby.
This little [sic] item has excited much comment in the blogosphere, but I will link to it as well as an example of one of the overlooked reasons that the proposed ban on cameras in New York City subways was a bad idea: crime deterrence. Put the gun away, mister.
I'm taking my first karate lesson tomorrow. I'm a little anxious. I think the last time I had formal private extracurricular instruction in sport of any kind, I was about ten. The sport was gymnastics. The second week of class, I came off the uneven parallel
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