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Love it, loathe it or simply view it as the most efficient way to get from Brooklyn to the Upper West Side, the New York City subway system is an urban wonder: running 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, Kennedy says it boasts 468 stations, 656 miles of passenger tracks and 6,400 cars, which might carry up to 200 passengers each. It also offers New Yorkers and visitors alike "the gift of proximity"=an "enforced neighborhood" that makes New York "more... cohesive than a city its size ever had a right to be." So argues Kennedy, author of the New York Times column "Tunnel Vision," in the introduction to this collection of three years of his musings on train buffs, poetically inspired token booth operators, singles cars, token suckers, subway performers, track workers and underground fauna. Thematically organized into sections like "Underground Government" and "Wildlife," the travelogue of the world beneath the city offers a wealth of fascinating sketches, such as the A line's pigeon stowaways in Far Rockaway, the misanthropic comic at 53rd and Fifth and the man who built a replica of a motorman's cab in his bedroom ("When I show it to people, right away they know I'm not married," he says ruefully). Trivia abounds: the E train is the best train to sleep on; some of the subway's early construction was thanks to blind mules; 27 of the retired Redbird cars form an artificial reef off Delaware; and a recent Lost Property Unit auction offered 285 beepers, five violins and a box of tambourines. 7 b&w photos. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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“On every page of this handsomely-written collection, Randy Kennedy has taught me something new. Everything I cherish about the subways is here: the underground community of solitude, the performers, the lunatics, the sinister desperadoes, the professionals who move us through those tunnels in speed and safety, along with the abiding mysteries. If these pieces don't get the remaining subwayphobes out of their stalled autos and into the city's greatest daily marvel, nothing will." - Pete Hamill"...to read his notes from the underground (and the elevated) is to know that Kennedy crafts city stories on a par with the marvelous Joseph Mitchell's....he discovers Gotham at its scrappiest--the most American place in America.. A"- Entertainment Weekly
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Product details
Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin; New title edition (2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0312324340
ISBN-13: 978-0312324346
Product Dimensions:
5.1 x 0.6 x 8.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.4 out of 5 stars
16 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#2,008,365 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Really really enjoyed reading this book. I've always been curious about the New York Subway system after visiting the city once and fell in love with the experience that the city offered. A major part of my experience was riding the subway and this book fulfilled me in a way that's hard to explain.
There are many interesting anecdotes about the New York City subway in this book.There are portraits of the subway "nerds" who watch or ride for the fun of it, or of grade school children who can quickly recite which train routes to take from point A to B.Being a frequent visitor to New York I am enthralled by the subway and still overwhelmed by its complexity. Somehow I feel this complexity is taken for granted and over-looked by subway denizens - and to some extent the writer of this book. The chapter "Helpful Tips for the First-Time Traveller" doesn't come close to addressing issues for the neophyte New York City traveller. For instance it took me a few visits to comprehend exactly the directional meaning of those "Uptown" and "Downtown" signs on the catacomb platforms - where I live "Uptown" and "Downtown" are the same place - the centre of town! The advantage of taking the subway for the first few times is that it forces you to open up to New Yorkers and ask straight-forward questions: Does this subway go to ....? Most were always more than helpful!And I can attest to the sheer thrill of a long subway ride - its' exhilarating to go out to Far Rockaway. There are a lot of subway stories in Mr. Kennedy's book - the varied musicians, the undercover cops, the ugliest stations (the top award going to the Chambers station). But there also some lovely unique stations like the murals at the "Natural History Museum" at 81st station (A,C,B,D lines).Perhaps this book needs some revision as there have been many renovations since 2004; I didn't hear anyway subway barkers when I took the Shuttle (between Times Square and Grand Central). Also it would be nice to have more stories on those unique workers within the subway system. And to take into account the full transit system, there are some wonderful rides on the extended MTA - the Metro North Railroad and the Long Island Railroad.Its' a lively and humorous book to read for anyone who has ridden this vast subway system - the poems are indeed funny!
Subwayland: Adventures in the World Beneath New YorkAs a transplant to New York -- I'm not an immigrant, I am a Southerner who always dreamed of being here and riding the famous subway as if it were a normal thing, and since the moment I arrived, I have had a certain fascination with the subway, which I see as a carrier or dreams-- I have found this to be a most fascinating book. Right around the time I quit reading the New York Times, as much for etymological, grammatical, and usage errors, as for politics. Unfortunately, I quit reading the New York Times before this wonderful reporter began a column devoted to the subway.Fortunately, this wonderful reporter, Randy Kennedy, another New York transplant, from the South (okay, Texas is South/Southwest -- we share a lot of culture), has had the genius to compile his subway column articles in a beautiful book. This book is for those who are interested in the subway's history, as well as in the "culture" of the New York subway -- you see the history, the people who are in there, etc., through the eyes of someone who was not born to this, and, so, sees it with fresh eyes.I've lived in New York for 24 years (5 years ago, on a bus, after a weird incident that put all of the bus riders talking to each other(!), a woman who, by her accident, had been born on the Upper East Side, real proper, pronounced me a New Yorker -- a badge I've been wearing proudly on my forehead ever since), and I've been fascinated with the New York subway since I was 13 (I mean - you could run away from your parents very quickly if you lived in New York -- in my town, you would have to walk a while to the bus stop, then to the bus station, if you really wanted to get away, which, ultimately, is what I did)Coming to New York, I found a new freedom with the subway (if it doesn't go there, I probably never wanted to go there anyway).Subwayland tells me even more about my "secret crush" -- I'm not a subway fanatic, but I do harbor a serious place in my heart for our subway (I lived in Washington DC before I came here -- but the subway there does not hold a candle to our system -- there, they have cameras and can identify you if you do something wrong, but you have to pay per ride, and the pay depends on how far you ride, it is a Cinderella subway - if you are out past midnight, you will have to walk home-- and their subway does not go everywhere you dreams might carry you)Read this book. It will take you back, or take you to some other place, or into a dreamland. Regardless, the read is worth the price.
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