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Ignorant question I guess but I visited the city in July, again, and man was the heat in the subway unbearable. I guess it is to be expected. Are all subways like this though?
Did you notice that the hot cars had very few people in them?
When people are new here, they often rush to get into the car with the fewest number of people, which is always a mistake. If there is a major difference in crowd size from one car to the next, it means there is something wrong with the car with the small number of people...like no air conditioning or bad smell or crazy person.
I made this mistake a few times after I moved here until I noticed the pattern.
But rest assured, no upper-escelon MTA personnel would ever be caught DEAD down there.
Actually, that's not true. Jay Walder is there quite often. But he's not there to see how the environment is or how it might be improved--these things would have to be pointed out to him before they'd show up on his radar. He's hoping to catch an MTA employee doing something wrong, so that he can have one of his underlings hand out some kind of punishment.
And just imagine that in the old days, they wore hats and three-piece suits (or frock coats!) even in the subway. I wonder how they could stand it. Was New York much colder in, say, the 1890s to 1920s?
And just imagine that in the old days, they wore hats and three-piece suits (or frock coats!) even in the subway. I wonder how they could stand it. Was New York much colder in, say, the 1890s to 1920s?
Not cooler back then, no, but people did have a greater tolerance for body odor and heat. It was just an accepted norm. Back in that time period it was common for people to only have 2 or 3 sets of clothes and to wear them mulitple times without washing them and to never wear deodorant.
My grandfather used to pick cotton back in the 40s in the south, and he had to wear a hat, and a long sleeve shirt and tall socks. The reasoning was that when he sweated, the clothes got wet, and it actually kept him cooler, rather than letting the sweat evaporated. It seems counter productive, but it actually works. Long sleeves and collars and hats also protected from sun stroke and sun burns. This was before the advent of sun tan lotion.
You know why that is, is the AC systems on the trains. They blow some serious BTU's out the top of the train when they're running full blast in the summertime, which makes it even hotter on the platforms. That's why home AC units are always outside and away the house. They put off a lot of heat.
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