Archive for August, 2007
Friday, August 31st, 2007
What’s All That Racquet?
One thing I actually enjoy about commuting, at least before Citizen’s Bank Park became the Mets’ Waterloo this week, is seeing guys and gals in Mets jerseys pooling in Grand Central before embarking on a 7-train trip to Shea.
(For the record, I also sort of like seeing mooks in Jeter jerseys on the 4-5 train […]
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Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
Does Eating Vegamite on the Train Count?
Transit blog Second Ave. Sagas (or is it Second Ave’s A Gas?) has the news that a man in Australia has written a book on subway etiquette. (For what it’s worth, Second Ave. also has a pretty sweet photo of a somewhat self-centered subway rider at that same link.)
Martin Merton, an American expert on subway etiquette, […]
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Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
Beach Bummed
While we certainly do our share of complaining about our commute here at Trainjotting, there’s one big, big plus to Metro-North that we’d like to mention as Labor Day beckons.
It’s a summer Friday, and we’re on, say, the 5:46 from Grand Central. With much of the region clearing out early for the weekend, the train is […]
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Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
The Massapequa Debutante’s Handbook?
While author Gary Shteyngart made multiple references to hopping Metro-North between Scarsdale and Grand Central in his debut novel The Russian Debutante’s Handbook, he may focus on the Long Island commute for his next literary endeavor.
The young Russian novelist mentioned at a dinner party recently how Massapequa would be the setting of his next novel. He […]
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Monday, August 27th, 2007
Straphanger Joe Says All is Not OK in Queens
OK’s Again
9:14a.m.
I walked my son to camp (twelve minutes from home), then walked to the Roosevelt 74th Street station (another 12 minutes).
The humidity is thick. My shirt is stuck to me again – third day in a row. I’m downstairs, on the platform, in the pit, in pole position for the F. The […]
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Monday, August 27th, 2007
Trafficking
Nice piece in yesterday’s NY Times on traffic reporters in the New York area. On one hand, the likes of Joe Nolan, Trish Yodice and Pete Tauriello (funny how the names are often burned into our memories, even if we have no idea what they look like), are threatened with irrelevance by your GPS and […]
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Monday, August 27th, 2007
Word of the Week: TICKET-CRICKETS
TICKET-CRICKETS \TIKK itt CRIKK itz\ noun: The chirping noise that precedes the arrival of a ticket-punching conductor.
Usage: I was dozing off on the 7:22 to Scarborough, but the ticket-crickets woke me up and I got my monthly pass out for the conductor.
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Friday, August 24th, 2007
What the Kids Are Googling
A sampling of the Google searches that brought visitors to Trainjotting this week makes one wonder what sort of cleavage bounce catwalk one would be sporting should one be wearing a wheels on the bus go round shirt.
And das boot glasses.
Our faves:
bad ass ho’s
eye locking and eye contact with a woman
whats that rumbling […]
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Friday, August 24th, 2007
“Local” Yokels
It’s an all-too familiar scenario. The workday concluded, you’re on a packed elevator heading down.
The elevator stops and a few people squeeze on.
It stops on the next floor and one more person inches in.
It stops on the next floor, and the would-be riders see that it’s full and wait for the next one.
Somewhere along those […]
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Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
Get Lit on Metro-North
There’s quite a lively discourse on reading while commuting over on the NY Times book blog Paper Cuts. While you have to cut through some of the rhapsodic meanderings inherent to the literature crowd, there are some funny posts among the 96 comments from readers, many from well outside the New York area. (96 comments? […]