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Monthly Archives: September 2007
Straphanger Joe Lurks in the Stairwell
Cell Phone Alley Why haven’t I noticed them before? I’ve walked down the steps to the 23rd Street station on Sixth Avenue at least one thousand times in the last five years, yet I never noticed them. … Continue reading
Posted in Straphanger Joe
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An Open Letter To:
The Guy in the “Popped” Collar and Suit in Grand Central This Morning. No. I can’t be more blunt. No. Last summer, I think it was, guys started wearing the Izod shirts with the collar up (a “popped” collar, I … Continue reading
Posted in Open Letter, Popped Collars
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Subway System Cells Out
Subway stations will be wired for cellphone use in the coming years, but the actual trains will not. The Metropolitan Transit Authority sold the job to Transit Wireless for almost $47 million, and the wiring will begin at six stations … Continue reading
Posted in cell phone, MTA, Peter Kalikow
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I Thought My Commute Sucked Vol. IX
From today’s WSJ, a review of the new memoir How Starbucks Saved My Life. Author Michael Gates Gill, son of longtime New Yorker staff writer/bon vivant Brendan Gill, has written about how his upper-crust upbringing and rapid ascent in the … Continue reading
An Open Letter To:
The Woman With the Unreal Center of Gravity on the 6 Train. You’re a short-ish black woman with strawberry-brown hair, stout of build and exceedingly stout of heart. There was a tattoo on your bicep and you wore fake rhinestone … Continue reading
Posted in 6 train, Open Letter
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What the Kids Are Googling
A small sampling of the Google searches people employed to arrive at Trainjotting last week. What we learn: Rats are scary, John Rocker is still in demand, and Samuel Adams never lived in Cincinnati. my rage rat aids subway beirut … Continue reading
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Several Thumbs-Down for ‘Carpoolers’
The new issue of trade mag Broadcasting & Cable weighs in on the new fall shows, and the report isn’t good for Carpoolers, the ABC rook that was going to show the world how much fun it really is to … Continue reading
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Freshly Baked ‘rolls
There’s nothing sadder than a blog that ran out of steam. It starts with a fury, the blogger drunk on the power of new media, posting once, perhaps twice a day. Comments abound, as the newly-minted media mini-mogul keeps friends … Continue reading
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Possible Titles: A Long Day’s Journey Into…Grand Central?
We usually leave the book-biz scoops, such as James Frey getting a million little dollars for a new novel, to the NY Times and our friends at Publishers Weekly. But little ol’ Trainjotting has something interesting from the tweedy book world: Nick … Continue reading
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The Art You Create Each Day
Yes, folks, there is art in the way you show up at the train, take your seat, sip your coffee, see how Hendrick Hudson High football did on the weekend, and shuffle off into the big, bad city. Commuting is … Continue reading
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