Downstate

The New York City Subway Motorman’s Rant

Steve Zeitlin

Citation

Zeitlin, Steve. “Downstate: The New York City Subway
Motorman’s Rant,” New York Folklore, vol. 50:1-4, 2024. pp. 14-15.

Summary

Every New Yorker who has ridden the subways for any length of time eventually cracks. The announcements are incomprehensible, the trains get stuck for seemingly no reason. On a particular day in 2003, even the air conditioner didn’t work in the car, and, yes, I cracked. I stormed out of the F train, which was stuck at West 4th Street, ran over to the motorman’s window and was about to give him a piece of my mind. When I saw the motorman and he saw me, we both burst out laughing.

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