[EinNYC]

Riding the NYC subway is enough of a trip into a lower world, and I don't mean simply going underground. It will be a roll of the dice if you arrive anywhere near on time, without a derailment or stalled train, etc., the now horrific service being the new norm. You will be fortunate indeed if there isn't a homeless bum stinking up an entire car and causing a quick exit from it by other straphangers. Or if a gang of black teens doesn't come on board with a portable stereo system and proceed to do break dancing and gymnastics using the overhead steel poles in the car, blasting your ears with filthy music and narrowly missing kicking you in the face as they chin up and swing on the bars. If you like your disgusting sights landside, just walk through a connecting tunnel to view various homeless beggars sitting on the floor. Now add to this unwholesome atmosphere ads the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) now accepts for posting on the subway cars, where kids ride to and from school and decent religious people ride to and from work, ads for erectile dysfunction pills, secret boudoirs you can rent if you are a cross dresser (they are particularly disgusting ads), and now, sex toys. They throw away so much money for such lousy service, they are always raising the fares to cover expenses even though the city gives them millions, and now they are so hard up for revenue that the public has to have ads for sex toys smack in their face as they stand directly opposite the posted ads? The subway cars are now nothing but a cesspool on wheels.

[wally_bert]

I’m glad I never cared for New York.

One of my commie cousins just loves the place.

[miss marmelstein]

I've had a problem with aerobatics on the shuttle train. One day they'll kill somebody with a shot to the head if they haven't done it already. Cops never around when you need them.

I wish they'd bring back Miss Subways and dump the sex toys.

[Red Badger]

Sounds like a veritable Socialist Progressive Paradise!

Just Like San Fransisco!..................

[jimmango]

Poor Charlie is going to have to look at those all day?
Kingston Trio

[ChildOfThe60s]

I am posting this article on FB.

May I use you comments verbatium, referencing only that I got them from a fellow poster in a conservative forum?

[pgkdan]

I used to have to ride the subway on occasion about 30 years ago in Philly. Talk about disgusting! The cars were covered in graffiti inside and out. Seats missing or destroyed and the most pervasive smell on the platforms and in thw cars was urine. Overwhelming.

[Moonman62]

John Rocker was right:

From a story published in the December 27, 1999, issue of Sports Illustrated, Rocker made a number of allegations stemming from his experiences in New York City and answering a question about whether he would ever play for the New York Yankees or the New York Mets.

I’d retire first. It’s the most hectic, nerve-wracking city. Imagine having to take the 7 Train to the ballpark looking like you’re riding through Beirut next to some kid with purple hair, next to some queer with AIDS, right next to some dude who just got out of jail for the fourth time, right next to some 20-year-old mom with four kids. It’s depressing... The biggest thing I don’t like about New York are the foreigners. You can walk an entire block in Times Square and not hear anybody speaking English. Asians and Koreans and Vietnamese and Indians and Russians and Spanish people and everything up there. How the hell did they get in this country?

During the interview, he also spoke of his opinion of the New York Mets and their fans:

Nowhere else in the country do people spit at you, throw bottles at you, throw quarters at you, throw batteries at you and say, “Hey, I did your mother last night—she’s a whore.” I talked about what degenerates they were and they proved me right.

[Wuli]

While I will admit that all the types of events you mention do happen, taking trains into New York and using its subways often enough to know the difference between anecdotal experience and the usual and typical experience I’d say most of your examples are not what most passengers experience most of the time - I certainly do not. That said, do I agree there is plenty of room for improvement on the subways? Sure. As far as the fare, by today’s inflated dollar, the $2.75 fare to go absolutely any distance on the subway is a bargain.

[jacknhoo]

Because you’re never too young to be sexualized in New York.

[choctaw man]

Authorized perversion.

[Deplorable American1776]

What will they accept next? NAMBLA ads?

[Buckeye McFrog]

well, I mean, it’s not like it’s a cigarette or anything...