Subway conductor, after a ten minute delay between the 14th and 8th Street stations: “This N is running local on the R line. It’s going to take you a while to get to Brooklyn.”
Subway conductor, after another six minutes between Prince and Canal: “We’re pulling into Canal now, you can transfer upstairs for the Q which is running over the bridge. It’s not the N but it’ll get you to Brooklyn faster, so that’s what you should do.”
Pause.
“… I know I would.”
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For getting to Brooklyn, the Q train is awesome. I’m glad that the subway conductor agrees with me!
I was on the Q train coming home last night, and it wasn’t any better than the N, I’m afraid. Something was seriously wrong with the yellow lines headed to Brooklyn after work yesterday evening!
I love that when the subway conductors have some character. It always makes the announcements so much more fun. There used to be a really zippy conductor on the F line, but I don’t hear him anymore. Wonder if he was jumped and gagged by a group of cynical morning commuters….
I was on the N a few weeks ago, and the conductor sang to us. “Heeeeeeere’s 30th Avenuuuuuuuuuuuuuue!” I kind of liked it.
Simon, I wonder if that was the same guy Stuart and I used to love when we lived in Astoria and rode the N; he was very expressively enthusiastic about every stop, very sing-songy.
I miss that dude.
This definitely looks like a winning submission for Overheard In New York.
he sounds like the conductor on the C train in the morning sometimes who bemoans the C having to wait before Hoyt Schermerhorn for the A to pass us by saying: “Pardon the delay, the A has precedence over the C train…..Everyone has precedence over the C train.”
Also, don’t know if you’ve seen this alread, but I thought you’d like it and could possibly verify its veracity:
http://gawker.com/maps/smell/ (the New York City Subway Smell map)