Subway People

Long Hard Day

Part of living downtown is that using the New York subway system is a must. This daily activity of using the NYC transit system can be a quick and easy way of transporting around the city or it can be a nightmare. One thing for sure, you will have a story to tell.

Living at the crossroads of Wall Street and Broad Street makes me feel that I live in NY Central. I can get to virtually every part of New York,almost every line can be had from lower Manhattan. We now go to so many different parts of the city, this never happened when we lived uptown.
Yesterday I had the delightful pleasure of meeting my daughter-in-law at her obstetrician. She is due in September and I had never heard the heart beat. I rode the 4 up to 59th and changed to the 6 to get off at 68th. The doctor is on 67th. It was an easy trip with plenty of seats at 11:45 a.m when I started my trip, the a/c even was working well.
I was so pleased and happy as I made my trip back after spending some time with Sarah (daughter in law).
We walked down to 59th and we decided to take the local 6 since she works in the twenties and had to get off on 23rd. To our surprise, once on the most crowded 2 p.m. 6 I had ever been on, it was announced it was to make only express stops to City Hall. Sarah got off at 42nd to switch to an actual 6 and I stayed on deciding to switch to the 4,5 at City Hall. There was no room to sit, we had been pressed against the door (her belly and all). Then it happened, the man next to us took out a comb and started to  comb his straggly beard. He combed bending over into those of us standing, oblivious to our disgust, What could he have been thinking? This is now placed close to the top of my awful subway rides.