I was taking the New York City subway for twenty -five years. My first train was the seventh. It is considered a patriotic treasure for its variety, and also very fast if you arrest the explicit Qinsoro Plaza to the Side-Stain-Woodside Street. Then for a long time I was on 2/3, first in Manhattan, where it was fast, and later in Brooklyn, where it was slow. In short, I had to pick up a bus to reach Q, but it was worth going to the Manhattan Bridge and seeing the river and the horizon. For six months, I was living directly over the C Train, and I was so penetrated that I could hear it at the station of my apartment. Then G – a disappointing train, was so extracted that you had to run in some stations to the middle of the platform to reach the only Manhattan that does not go to Manhattan. But over time, more and more my destinations were in Brooklyn, it was true. G was all I need. When I went back to 2/3, it was a mixed blessing. I can go to Manhattan again – but did you really want?
When I was younger, I had a share of adventure in the subway. Once, while riding 1, I am hidden and ended in the last station, in Bronx. The man was his hand in the pocket of my jacket and was trying to remove my wallet. Hold it, struggle for a short period, and let it go. He said, “Be careful,” as if he was tested. “Thank you,” I said, as if I had believed in it. Once again, I found myself very drunk near the University of New York, I bought a two -state falafel. I do not blame the falafel for what happened next, which is that I installed a train 2 again to my station, and then, as soon as I withdraw, I was thrown on the tracks. I’m very sorry. On one occasion, I slept on the train (again) and woke up at the Eastern Parkway – Brooklyn – at the time, the last station where the white people will come out. “This is your stop,” one of them said, and they were right. I once had the first date ended with a slightly mysterious R flight on R. She sang a small song around it to my history: “R is a train / do not take / often.” She loved my song. Now we are married.
As you get older and developed some responsibilities, the metro sometimes let me down. I was late due to police investigations and medical emergencies, and I was unable to ride C in Clinton Washington during the peak hour because she was very crowded. During the “Hell Summer”, in 2017, when years of investment became unclear everywhere on the system, I started leaving ten minutes on every trip. It was not always enough. In 2015, our first child, a week before his birth, developed the state of the heart; We took G to L to reach his doctor in Al -Ittihad Square. Three years later, our second child got a fever and had to go to the emergency room at Park Mail. We took a taxi.
You were, sometimes, take off. Our second child was born while we were still in a vehicle. I imagined that logistical services were obtaining them in stopping Classon Avenue G and bought a car. When the epidemic arrived in New York, eighteen months later, this car drove us everywhere. There was no traffic. We can reach Jacob Reese Beach in twenty -five minutes. The only voices at night are the sounds of ambulance alarms.
Leave that summer and falling from my educational job at the University of Colombia, I did not eat the metro for a full ten months. When I went back to work, in early 2021, the university was providing us with free parking lots, if we wanted to avoid the train. I traveled twice, but on the way back the second time, it took two hours to get home to Brooklyn, and I got a lot of way on BQE to eat the metro again. It was empty and slightly strange. Everyone wore a mask. There seems to be more people who act wrongly, but I installed it into low passengers. There were always people who were behaving wrongly on the train. Now, I thought, they just stood up.
Before the epidemic, in the wake of the wonderful storm Sandy and Summer Al -Jahim, the story of the subway was a story that was exacerbated by climate change. Like New York Times Clear in 2017 investigationNew York City and the City of Cheating on the subway began from its fair share of revenues in the 1990s. With more intense storms, the system was overwhelmed, the metro at the end was drowning.
This story is still correct. MTA leaders Recently explain To Gothamist that the metro system is collected together by “rubber ranges and paper clips”, as well as “chewing gum and threads”. However, the state of the city in the wake of the epidemic raised the issue of whether there is a different kind of lack of investment-in people and their mental and material well-being-will cause the regime to collapse before the next large rains.
The metro crime is an obsession for the residents of New York, for clear reasons. On the subway, you are besieged, under the ground; Power numbers are hidden behind the glass, in a control booth, or completely absent. When it comes to the most dramatic and terrible metro crimes – pushing the sudden platform to the next train path – there is no place where the New York residents are more at risk.
I have recently read paper In the magazine Self -Medicine Mosque About the identities and mental groups of people who pushed others to the subway paths in New York City. I found that it is strange in a strange way. The authors were able to examine the medical records and the police for twenty individual heaters. Thirteen shelter, and nineteen previously were transferred to the hospital in psychological institutions, all of whom were unemployed, and all of them suffered from delusions – most of the time, they believed that they commit a heroic bond. A man thought he was succeeding in the death of his niece; Another, protecting his wife. One of them was convinced that he was “investigator [was] Combating crimes. ”It was not hatred but madness that pushed them. The authors indicated, perhaps with a little optimism, that people in the grip of severe psychosis were very clear, and the city officials urged them to get them out of the metro. The paper was from 1992.
The metro recovery from the epidemic was appropriate, a story of stopping and starting. The ride dates back to more than a billion flights annually, but it is less than 2019 levels. suddenly It was temporarily stopped by Governor Cathy Hochol in 2024, and in the end he was implemented this month, at a lower price. Also, there is a crime, and the perception of the crime: Every time the system appears to return to its natural routine as a file The miracle of comfortSomething we can simply take as a Muslim by it, re -accidental in the news.
Five incidents of the past two years constitute a kind of a prisoner’s dilemma for passengers and city authorities who worry that if the metro collapses, the city will go with it. The first was Jordan was killed NileA former impersonator in Michael Jackson, by Daniel Benny, a former recipient, in May 2023, on the Football -related train. Multiple witnesses He pointed out that Nelly had resigned and began to act in an aggressive and angry way; According to those accounts themselves, no one was embraced before he put it in a strangling contract for about six minutes. Last month, I found a jury of Manhattan Benny Unforcing From murder criminal neglect; His first interview was after the referee with Janine Peru, from Fox News.
The second accident was the shooting of Djoan Robinson, in March 2024, after he boarded an explicit train on Nostrand Street and began harassing Yunus Oboa, a colleague. The two started fighting, and a woman seemed to be with Obawad Robinson’s stabbing at the back; Robinson pulled a pistol on Obawad, who then managed to photograph the gun from Robinson and shot it. Meanwhile, there were other people trapped in the car with them from Nostrand to Hoyt-Shermerhorn. MTA has closed the doors between cars on this type of train, for safety reasons.
The third accident appeared in the first. After shooting Robinson, New York Police held a press conference, during which he indicated that Robinson entered the Nostrand station through the emergency exit, without paying a fee for him. Police leaders stressed the need for more “quality of life”. Jano Lieber, friendly MTA president, The name Fare evading “no. 1 existential threat” for the metro system, because “he says at the entrance, this is not an organized place.” A month later, in September last year, the police were chasing the roundabout through L-Train station when he withdrew a knife on it on the platform. The officers opened the fire, wounded the man but also an officer and two passers -by, including a forty -nine hospital worker who was shot in the head. (The worker survived, but he appeared with damage to the brain, and his temporary child is now suing the city.)
The last two incidents occurred recently, within ten days of each other. In one of them, fire caught fire on a woman sleeping on the F train on the island of Kony and burned to death, while the close people, including the alleged perpetrator, saw. On the other hand, a man standing on a single training platform in Chelsea was pushed on the paths by a strange person. “In the hands of God, he fell completely in the trench,” a law enforcement official He said New York mailNaja.
After each of these incidents, the New York residents were re -calibrated. Stay closer to the wall when waiting for the train. If someone is burning, not just stand there. However, if someone is just screaming, ignore it. If possible, go to another car.
