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Monthly Archives: February 2009
Why You Should Keep Your Cellphone Convos Quiet on the Train
People fall into two camps when it comes to cellphone usage on the train. Either they hardly notice it, or they want to beat the cellphone user with a size 12 wingtip until innards come out of both the cellphone … Continue reading
‘Broken Tracks’ Slow Harlem Line Commute
We knew something was up just after we left White Plains at 8:28 this morning, the train positively crawling along as it quixotically (Editor’s Note: First time “quixotically” has ever appeared on Trainjotting) crawled toward the city. We limped through Hartsdale … Continue reading
The Trainjotting Restaurant Review: ‘Cabin’ Fever
We had the pleasure of dining out at The Cabin over the weekend, a smallish lodge-style place on Rte. 100 on the border of Valhalla and Greenburgh–not far from Westchester Community College and about three miles south of Hawthorne train … Continue reading
Word of the Week: CRAPATHETIC
CRAPATHETIC /CRAPP uh THET ick/ adj.: The state of steely indifference one must fine oneself in in order to assume a seat near the toilet on Metro-North. Usage: The 6:33 to Mt. Kisco wasn’t even full, but some fool grabbed a … Continue reading
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An Open Letter To:
The Public Address Guy at Grand Central. Please, please please stop calling Stamford “Stam FORD.” Despite the way it’s spelled, it’s pronounced Stam-ferd, and the accent is on the first syllable. But that doesn’t matter to you. No, every day, … Continue reading
3-Year-Old Rides 7 Train By Self
Three-year-old Christian Marquez marched out of a Queens McDonald’s yesterday, walked to the subway, and rode by himself for seven stops before the authorities could find him. Marquez was having a little Mickey D’s with Mom around 2 p.m. yesterday … Continue reading
The Trainjotting Reader: THE WISHBONES
As with the Phillip Roth excerpt last week, the latest Trainjotting Reader looks at the peculiar dynamic of a city person and a suburban person navigate their cultural differences in a budding relationship. Tom Perrotta’s The Wishbones is a story … Continue reading
Bel Paese’s Last Stand
As we noted earlier this week, Bel Paese–Hummerville’s lone red sauce joint in its tiny downtown district–has shut its doors for good. Yet Bel Paese seems to be putting up a fight. With fierce winds battering the area the last … Continue reading
Nobel Winner on the 6:12
The intelligence quotient of the 6:12 to Stamford last night spiked noticeably with none other than NY Times Op-Edder/Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman on board. Kudos to Saugatucker for actually recognizing the guy. Saugie says Krugman was reading the New … Continue reading
Walkway Debris in New Roc Knocks Out Trains
Service was suspended on the New Haven Line this afternoon when some debris on the pedestrian overpass at New Rochelle station was blown about by those brutal winds. The flotsam crashed into a train around noon, reports the Journal News, … Continue reading
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