Something was up with the IRT line over the weekend. With no explanation uptown express trains were running on the local lines Friday evening and Saturday morning before the snow began. During the storm, when I took this picture, an announcement said the express trains were running local because of inclement weather. No trains, express or local, came into the 96th St. station for 20-30 minutes, and the uptown platform was completely filled with people, so I decided to walk home.
I felt guilty when taking photos of the geese. Not guilty for taking the photos, but because the geese have learned that a person who stops is a source of food. They were all on the pond and quickly waddled to see what I had for them. They weren't interested in the camera.
Looking at Schomburg Plaza from across Harlem Meer.
Someone was riding a snowmobile around the neighborhood during the storm. This was as close as I got to getting a picture of him.
I flew into JFK from SFO on the red-eye, and had the opportunity to take the A surprise-its-a-local and 3 guess-what-another-local trains from Howard Beach to 72nd Street. As the 3 was making its way up the island from Fulton, we kept passing trains sleeping on the express track. We probably passed close to ten of them up to around Columbus Circle -- all with lights out, parked bumper-to-bumper in groups of two or three. When we got to 72nd street, the 3 magically became an express.
I'm guessing that subway trains normally sleep in yards somewhere, and that the MTA chose to move them to the express tracks in the tunnels just in case the storms made the yards unusable.
Posted by: Matt | 24 January 2005 at 06:20 PM