http://www.goingundernyc.com Daily observations about a perfectly normal commute on the NYC subway. Thu, 12 Aug 2010 07:32:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Newyorkers have been complaining about the Disney-fication of The City for quite some time already. The old pole-dancing hookers from Times Square have been replaced by The Little Mermaid.  Most of the junkies you could find lying on the sidewalks are gone and left just hoards of fannypack-wearing tourists in ... http://www.goingundernyc.com/?p=271 I used to walk along the long corridor connecting the 4,5,6 lines with the N,R lines almost everyday.  Always thought about it as a journey to transfer from one line to the other, never as a destination… until I met Manuel. For some reason, that day I noticed this white-haired man ... http://www.goingundernyc.com/?p=258 in your eyes the light the heat in your eyes I am complete in your eyes I see the doorway to a thousand churches in your eyes the resolution of all the fruitless searches in your eyes I see the light and the heat in your eyes oh, I want to be that complete I want to touch the light, the heat I ... http://www.goingundernyc.com/?p=251 It’s a theater night on Broadway.  That means that an uncommon amount of people converge on the subway platform at practically the same time, somewhere around 10:30 pm. Most of them are excited about a play they just saw. Some are semi-intoxicated after a midtown bar crawl. The ubiquitous subway performers ... http://www.goingundernyc.com/?p=243 Today was a very full day for me, I needed to do things all over town. It all started very early in the morning taking the A train from Brooklyn to downtown Manhattan. After putting up with some kafka-esque bureocracy at the bank, I boarded the R train to Midtown, ... http://www.goingundernyc.com/?p=235