1. Straphanger Joe Says:
    February 8th, 2007 at 4:11 am

    Take the train to Queens. There are two or three homeless men who take the F or V train and a number of men who sing/play instruments for money, and one man who sells batteries. I’ve become so callous to it on a crowded subway with either my ipod going or reading that I don’t notice unless the men are right next to me and shaking their cups/shouting out their sales pitches. It saddens me that I’ve become this way but it is part of the thick coat that many of us New Yorkers grow. I do remember the days when Penn Station, back in the eighties, was crowded with homeless men and women and the subways were travelling homes to others. Rudy G. pushed folks out of Manhattan and into the outter burroughs and suburbs. Is that possible or is it just my imagination? In any case it didn’t solve the problem of finding them homes. It just pushed them onto someone elses doorstep. Maybe that was his idea in the first place.