MTA will allow sex toy ads on the subway

NY Post ^ | May 17, 2018 | Danielle Furfaro and Joe Tacopino

[SamAdams76]

The 7 train runs quite deep. In Grand Central, you have two levels of subway (not to mention two levels of Metro North trains with the LIRR connection a year or so away). You have the 4-5-6 trains down a couple flights of stairs and then deeper below that runs the 7 train. Over at Javits Center by 34th Street, those multi-story escalators you mention are very impressive. I take the train there from my office on warm days so I can walk the High Line during lunch. Some amazing skyscrapers currently going up in that area as well.

[SamAdams76]

The underground passage from Grand Central to Times Square was like Dante’s descent into the bowels of hell.

The Shuttle between Grand Central and Times Square is basically a tourist thing. That's where you get most of the "break dance" entertainment as tourists don't know better and feel they need to pitch in a dollar when after the "show" the black youths walk by with their plastic cups or turned up ballcaps.

Locals know that it's a very short walk at street level, then again, locals know to stay away from Times Square in the first place!

[SamAdams76]

I've had mostly positive experience with the NYC trains as well. They are much more reliable than what I experienced on the MBTA up in Boston during the last phase of my career. Graffiti on trains is basically non-existent. I know it was different back in the 1970s and 80s. The empty train cars due to a smelly bum is mostly urban legend. I've never experienced it. Though there are bums, I'll grant you that.

The black "entertainers" with their boom-boxes and break dances are mostly harmless. When they come around to collect "tips", I bury my head in my cellphone and they just pass on by.

The commuter trains (Metro North) are first rate. I've been commuting to Grand Central from Westport, CT for three years now and I've had only three major delays - the latest one being Tuesday night when all three lines were shut down due to those thunderstorms. I still don't have power restored in my CT home and I'm up in Boston tonight staying at a hotel so I can get hot showers and electricity!

[miss marmelstein]

Sorry to hear about all your inconveniences! I hope everything is turned back on soon.

Yes, I have to agree with you about the subway. It gets hot and stuffy and crowded but aside from that it works well.