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Category Archives: Mount Vernon
TRAINJOTTING TURNS 5: Envy
Each day this week, to commemorate our fifth birthday, Trainjotting is publishing memorable posts from the past, grouped under a specific Seven Deadly Sin. Today’s sin is ENVY. Previously ran February 2007. Word of the Week: MOUNT YEARNIN’ MOUNT YEARNIN’ … Continue reading
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Denzel’s Thing For Train Tragedy
Mount Vernon’s own Denzel Washington’s latest pic, Unstoppable, starts today. Just as they did in The Taking of Pelham One Two Three a year ago, Denzel and director Tony Scott explore what happens when trains go off the rails. Writes … Continue reading
What the Kids are Googling
Yes, it’s time for that weekly Friday TJ-can’t-be-bothered-with-blogging search engine bacchanal known as What the Kids Are Googling? Just what where the 1,000-odd–and we do mean odd–terms people Googled before ending up on Trainjotting this week? Here are but a … Continue reading
Posted in Don Draper, Google, Mount Vernon, Valhalla
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Metro-North Conducts Disaster Drill in Mount Vernon
As if Mount Vernon didn’t have enough problems with crime, school budget cuts, etc. The beleaugured city gets a blast of hazardous spills, fiery crashes and exploding bombs (mind you, all are staged) Saturday morning during an MTA ”emergency simulation.” … Continue reading
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The Saddest Ballfield in All of New York
It is, simply and frankly put, the saddest ballfield in all of New York. No, not Shea. Smartass. On this, the unofficial national holiday and brightener of spirits known as Major League Baseball Opening Day, we salute the most pathetic … Continue reading
The Drag Queen Returns!
There (s)he was on the 7:16 to Stamford last night, all 11-inch heels and fishnet dress and tights with the ass cheeks cut out. Yes, the giant black drag queen was shaking up the stuffy decor on the Metro-North again, … Continue reading
Posted in Drag Queens, Mount Vernon, New Haven Line
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Unanswered Questions on the 8:16
She was a young Latina, maybe 30. She had two boys in tow–a Hispanic kid of about 11, a black kid who was a little older. She went over the train schedule with the Hispanic boy over and over–get off … Continue reading
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Nor’easter 2007: I Take Back All the Nice Things I Said About Metro North
Yesterday, it was snow, sleet, freezing rain and locusts falling from the sky (“I’m shoveling Margaritas,” one Brooklyn maintenance man told the Times), and the train was all of two minutes late. Today, it was sunny and clear, though butt-cold. … Continue reading
Posted in 125th Street, Fleetwood, Mount Vernon, Scarsdale
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