New York 2

"Hi, this is Rudy Giuliani," he said.

"Hello," I mumbled woozily, for I was not yet fully awake.

In my muddle, it took me a moment to realize that this was not actually Mr. Giuliani on the phone but rather a recording. The voice was unmistakable, though.

Mr. Giuliani, Can't the City Sleep On It? (NYT) I've received calls from Senators Schumer and Clinton, and then Bloomberg, and then Clinton again telling me to beware of solicitations from callers posing as Democrats. Hillary, look in the mirror! Sheesh!

And there was Daniel Clemente, 19, a police studies student at John Jay College, who rides different subway lines for fun several times a month and regularly buys seats in the upper deck at Shea Stadium just so he can watch the trains go by.

"It's a little weird, I know," he said.

Also on board was Chris Rivera, 18, an architecture major at New York Institute of Technology, who once rode the subway with a friend for 24 hours and stopped at every station in the city.

All three eventually crowded into the first car, where fans jostled to catch a glimpse out the "rail-fan window," the front window through which a buff can imagine himself piloting the train. The newer trains don't have such windows, and fans have to deal with staring out the back.

Let Go, Straphangers, the Ride is Over! (NYT)

I used to love riding to Shea in those red trains and I had no idea they were so close to extinction. Where was the MEETUP? I also l watched the trains from the Upper Deck of Shea, but only because the Mets keep breaking my heart. And where was NYC's marketing director? Shouldn't Mo Vaughn have been on that last train?

Marathoners ♥ New York (NYT) Marathoners! New York loves you back. While we're running, Meg is raising money for the November 16th HIV/AIDS benefit run. And maybe ING will be good for Marathon after all, as they've just introduced a new Marathon ranking system.

NYC Blogs by Station, 7th Avenue The sheer number of Park Slope bloggers is amazing. More amazing is that I read nearly none of them - shouldn't there be an orblogs.com clone with a communal RSS feed?

Comments

[zagg]

Jeez. I picked the Astor Place station on the 6 as my station (though I'm in the middle of a sea of them) and there's alredy 66 other blogs! Who knew?

[zagg]

Also interesting: my across-the-hall neighbor Back-in-Iraq listed his blog as being at Union Square.

[ME-L]

That would be cool! Want to help us build it?