Above the subway grate, she flails briefly at a bee that's mistaken her florid hat for substance. The bee escapes, but her left earring, heirloom, mother of pearl, drops through the grate. She stand
...air doesn't exist anymore Now, I race the sun To the statue of liberty every morning Exhale freedom Onto subway windows Write myself letters In beer bottles And mail them home And Yes. This is the f...
A subway grill belched a smoke-ring at our ankles while we wandered down Lexington Avenue. Two chairs leapt out of a barroom door and collapsed on the pavement, while a man reapplied lipstick in th
...one piece. My only additional
interaction with the cops was a verbal one. As I
was making my way to the subway --along with my friend Nina, whom I had happily
run into--a gang of young cops approach...
Remembering, you rise… not as steam from subway grates but lions’ breath, ravenous in the winter air. Remembering, I’m rapt… not at the cave of Midtown Tunnel but hot hands gone spelunking in t
I want to interview people who read bibles on the subway .
I almost have casually, in passing, but I'm scared. "Excuse me, do you read from beginning to end?" Curiosity can easily mask itself as an a
...fty years old—I can still fool myself into believing that I love the people sitting across from me on the subway but despise the neighbors in the village half a mile away? Off the top of my head, I’d ...
...ned. None so much more than when I inadvertently ended up in the middle of a Jimmy Buffett party...on the subway .
I'm heading home on the train from work to Brooklyn one day in late summer. Hi...
The orange glow of a smoldering cigarette cast light on the smooth brown cheeks of the woman standing, facing me.
"Smoking's bad for you," I said quietly outside her front door into the darkness tha
...arned months before in college. I wanted it to match an earlier piece, to try and turn my thoughts on the subway into something cohesive; a series of similar pieces. In this instance I had forced the ...
... to read straight through in one long sitting, but even better to savor over the course of a week, on the subway , at a coffee shop, finishing up in a comfortable chair at home where the various ending...
Diane (sounds like w-a-h) Roy is a Haitian-American artist/street photographer from Queens, NY. She moved here in 1986 with her parents --
We touch no matter how many times I move my hand. Up or down the clammy subway pole, I will eventually feel your fingers resting against mine. You never pull away but I slither my hand down slowly to
God I loved youthat Saturday night making outon a subway of barely clothedstrangers—two dominatrices, a nurseand the perennial Catholic schoolgirl.I didn’t tire of your bare back-bone or your tongue c
he sat on the train, holding his mig -29making the noise of the attackbut his seven-year-old mind was elsewhere his grandparents, tired from the day in the cityslept dreaming of the new york gian
On the 6 train, a man sits near the tail, dressedin a leather bomber jacket,baggy jeans and big sneakers.
I sit opposite him, without refuge of iPod or reading. He looks about 40, his right eyeswoll
.... Punks and thugs, and graffiti on everything. Alphabet City: Artsy, Brave, Crazy, Dead. Fuck, riding the subway feels about as dangerous as going to the mall."
&...
...what’s so funny
we walk away from this jamsession of mad men to the kiosk of Q Lightsand people, blur a subway carousel, a faceless audience of dozens, stir only
our stare is sturdy
your face a...
...lence: headphones. And so the dream can be fulfilled.
Heights Coffee, resting outside of the 7th Avenue subway station, swarms with people and laptops and coffee-tinted air. The leather chairs steal...
It was always up to us, Sister saidlauding eleven-year-old Beata Maria Goretti as a model, slashed dead rather than surrender her purity.As if we who wanted to be good could guard the locks stemming f
David King is a Queens-born, Brooklyn-raised actor, writer & educator who believes in communalism and the arts. Because the View, a collection of original poems, images &
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...e of the differencebetween being unsociable and being antisocialbetween an empty room alone at home and a subway shooting spreetoday is a plea bargain waiting to happen
today my mantra changed from ...
...ive! Please Stay Indoors!
Unless you are Mayor Bloomberg!Look how brave the Mayor is!
He’s riding the subway to workwith an emotionless look upon
his cold, complacent face!Like a Robot! Holy Sh...
...y morningsin the city when everything seems too quiet. Like the morningafter the London bombings when the subway s rattled empty in what should have been the morning rush. My car held me and five peopl...
Unwrapping the human from the chaos, Brooke Wacha discovers beauty in subway cars, seeking out that which is often buried beneath stereotypes and blurred by our fast-paced lives.
