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Several cases of urinating and vomiting and yes, once on the platform at Yankee Stadium, an otherwise sane looking guy stood up and proceeded to drop anchor right there. Horrid.
I saw my share of screaming, doomsday-warning lunatics, threatening beggars and peddlars selling the most bizarre of items.
I saw fistfights, arguments break out between complete strangers, loudmouths with boomboxes and Rastas sparking up right there in the car.
His whole body! Basically this guy was naked. Cut a hole in the bottom of the trash bag so his head could fit through, and draped it over himself. The guy was probably homeless or something. It was actually sad. He looked quite ashamed.
There was this one time my fiance and I were walking to the platform and this homeless guy just busts out with "Let me tell you a little something about long distance relationships, and why they just don't work..." We didn't stick around to hear his opinion, I'm now curious as to what he had to say.
Funniest: On the Downtown A, There were some kids break-dancing. One of the older kid flipped the younger one in the air. The kid hit the metal over head-thingy (where the scraphanger is attached to) and made this loud "CLUNK" noise. Everybody was bugging out on that.
On the Uptown 4, the train stopped at the 149th Grand Concourse station as the last stop to everybody's surprise. As passengers were leaving the train, one man was asleep. The track workders went in the train and kicked the guy out saying " Nah, ***** get ya ass up. This is the last stop! Move it! Wake yo ass up!" So ghetto and so funny!
Bizzare: On the 7 train, there was the homeless guy who use to ALWAYS ( or least it seems) ride on that line and ask for money and or food.
One time on the Downtown 2, some drunk kids wanted to fight an old man over a seat. Crazy...
Brooklyn bound G, Kids acting like... well kids, I guess they were going to jump somebody...
On the D train one morning, I think it was at the 59th St. stop, I saw a gaunt woman wobble onto the train (one foot on the train, one foot out of it up until just before the doors closed) and a puff of smoke erupted from her fingers as she climbed on. She started going into a speech-- "Ladies and . . . gentleman . . . my family . . . was killed in a fire . . . "-- but she kept stopping the speech to squat on the floor every few seconds. At one point, she nodded off for about thirty seconds while squatting, and then tried to resume her speech from the floor ("You see . . . uh . . . uh . . . ladies and gentleman, I . . . uh").
At this point, most passengers who were in the immediate vicinity had gotten up and moved to the other side of the car except me and another lady. I was about to join them when the other lady got up, grabbed the gaunt women by the arm, pulled up onto a nearby empty seat, held her by the arms and yelled something to the effect of, "You better get your ass sobered up! I'll give you a couple dollars, but only if you take this money and use it to get your ass cleaned up!" She gave her about ten bucks, got up and went back to her original seat; it was totally quiet the rest of the trip. A couple other passengers gave her some food, and the gaunt woman got off at the next stop, thanking everybody as she got off the train.
I'd like to think this reality check was enough to inspire her to get cleaned up, but I dunno. Never saw her again.
Ha ha, only in new york city huh guys? I have only been here for a year but have seen so many strange, crazy and hilarous things! I'm kind of a creep, I take pictures/videos of people that make laugh. Of course it's discreet and I'm pretty sure no one has ever caught me. I favor people sleeping with their mouths open and people in crazy clothes. but some favorite sights i've seen...
funnyi was on the 6 train train late late like 3 in the morning and there was probably 8 young ladies yelling screaming and being totally ghetto dropping the n bomb every three words. When this guy yells at them to "shut up" they start arguing, but it turns out the guy was Ray Lebowski (a really good comedian) and he tore them to pieces! I honestly thought they were going to jump him, but after he told her she should be on a commercial with p. diddy for her acne and asked them if they got their lame outfits at strawberry they shut up! ha ha ha
funnier This guy was passed out laying belly up on the A train, when all of a sudden he sits up (still sleeping) and is seriously two inches from his neighbors face. The neighbor kept nudging him, but to no avail. The sleeping man rested his head on the mans shoulder! On paper (or computer) it doesnt sound as funny as it was in person. I wish I could really do this story justice!
funniestMy favorite thing about subway is the subway performers. Sometimes you get really really good ones and sometimes you get the ones that just make you laugh til it hurts! I have two favs. 1) on the F train this old blind man walks up and down the train singing "if you think i'm sexy" HILAROUS! he's actually really good but the sight is funny 2) on the N/W line this older lady wears spandex a large sweater huge glasses and carries around one of those roller carts. She whips out one of those little keyboards with a flute attached to it! I dont really know the songs she sings but it makes me laugh so hard every time i see her...NO JOKE! ha ha
So maybe I have a warped sense of humor, but I think you gotta to live in the city!
I remember once at like 6 in the morning, I was getting on the 7 train for school, and some guy was sleeping next to another guy. All of the sudden the sleeping man punches the guy next to him in the face, screams "DON'T **** WITH ME IN THE MORNING!!!", and leaves the train.
I only have one good subway story: I was at the Brooklyn Bridge / City Hall stop waiting for the 4 train to take me home at 1:30 in the morning when a homeless guy started walking on the platform and asking people crazy stuff. He eventually walked on the overpass to the other side of the tracks and just kind of stood there staring over at our side. Then, all of the sudden, he pulled down his pants and proceeded to have diarrhea all over the platform. A 30-something black lady on my side of the platform yelled "HELLL NAWWWW!!!" and dialed on the emergency service phone. Two cops came down and escorted the guy out of the station. People just stood there in disbelief... I have never seen anything like it.
Well here's one that happened today on the shuttle from Grand Central to Times Square. I noticed a young girl (she turned out to be 9 years old) talking to a transit guy on the train and crying. I could hear that she lost her mother. As a mother who doesn't know how to mind my business when someone needs help, I walked over and comforted her and assured her that she would find her mother within minutes. Of course other women were all chiming in too while men knew to stay out of it HAHA. Turns out the girl got on and the doors closed before the mother could get on. As we were on our way over to Times Square the transit guy was told on his walkie talkie that the mother had arrived on the next train at the Grand Central stop while we were on our way to Times Square, and that she was shouting and going a bit crazy. So big surprise when the doors opened and you could tell it was the mother standing at Times Square with a baby carriage, guess that's why she couldn't get on quick enough but the whole thing was unusual. The cutest thing was how everyone on the train spontaneously clapped when they saw the girl find her mother.
There's this older guy I call "Professor Q Train". I've seen him three times now. He sits on the train and gives history lessons and trivia as it goes from station to station. He's actually kind of interesting to listen to.
...Did you know that the Parkside Station is the site of the most deadly transit accident in history?
Anyway...
One day, when the train was very crowded, this guy with a very gay-sounding (but LOUD) voice starts yelling at him from halfway across the car and telling him to shut up. The two of them begin talking more and more loudly over each other. Eventually the gay-sounding guy says that he can talk louder because he is an actor.
Professor Q Train stops and forcefully responds, "You, sir, may be an actor, but I am a scholar."
Maybe you had to be there.. but it was funny as hell. Everyone on the train laughed.
... Did you know that Quentin Road used to be Avenue Q but was renamed in honor of a World War I hero?
Bizarre:
I was at the 23rd St. N-R-W station. The station was almost empty. I saw a guy drop something on the tracks, then he jumped down on the tracks to retrieve it. He struggled a bit getting back up and I was freaking out hoping that he wasn't going to get stuck down there with a train coming. What was the valuable thing he risked his life to retrieve....? A comb... which he proceeded to use on his hair after picking it up from the disgusting rat-infested trackbed
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