Category Archives: Seat

TRAINJOTTING TURNS 5: Greed

Posted on January 11, 2012 by TJ

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 Greed. Previously ran April 2010. So widespread is the practice of New Yorkers … Continue reading →

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TRAINJOTTING CLASSIC: Word of the Week — Facial Profiling

Posted on February 10, 2011 by TJ

FACIAL PROFILING: \FAY-shull PROH-fihh-lingg\ noun: Selecting one’s seat on the train based on the attractiveness of the person in the adjacent seat.  [Note: Not to be confused with Spatial Profiling, which involves selecting one’s seat based on the size of the … Continue reading →

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‘Pigs’ and ‘Hogs’ on the Subways and Commuter Rails

Posted on April 27, 2010 by TJ

So widespread is the practice of New Yorkers behaving badly on public transportation that we have two separate user-generated websites dedicated to their transportation transgressions, a.k.a. “trainsgressions”. (And so widespread are camera-equipped smartphones that we now have armies of citizens … Continue reading →

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Three’s Company or a Crowd? Ask Straphanger Joe.

Posted on July 31, 2008 by timcol

THE POWER OF NOW At 9:10 a.m. I enter the F-train from my usual spot: the no-man’s land between the two stairs going up to the main level of Roosevelt Station in Jackson Heights. Inside, a roomful of open seats … Continue reading →

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TRAINJOTTING CLASSIC: Word of the Week — Facial Profiling

Posted on January 15, 2008 by TJ

FACIAL PROFILING: \FAY-shull PROH-fihh-lingg\ noun: Selecting one’s seat on the train based on the attractiveness of the person in the adjacent seat.  [Note: Not to be confused with Spatial Profiling, which involves selecting one’s seat based on the size of the … Continue reading →

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