The two young men stood in the middle of the subway, that spot reserved for the rush-hour swell or else the stage for optimistic break dancers determined to rouse the unengaged masses. The train rambled between Broadway-Lafayette and Grand, from one underground sweat box to the next. The men, listless on a Friday afternoon in the… Continue reading The Collective Stink
Tag: Subway Series
It Was Gone Before We Got Here
On the N train into the city, past rush hour with its body-to-body congestion, but not quite to the emptiness at the end of the night, when it's only those who work too late or those who don't have to work much at all, riding the train in that collective silence that only happens when… Continue reading It Was Gone Before We Got Here
