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‘I Can Still Recall One Subway Ride I Took After Moving to New York’
A trip with an unusual passenger, voices from a Brooklyn past and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.
Unusual Passenger
Dear Diary:
I can still recall one subway ride I took after moving to New York City from Cape Cod at the age of 23.
I got on an uptown train in Greenwich Village. Seated across from me was a huge, raw roast beef, nicely tied in white butcher’s string and sitting on brown wrapping paper.
Several people avoided sitting next to the beef. I thought someone might say something about it, but everyone who got on the train just glanced at it and then sat down as if it were normal.
I got off at 42nd Street. The roast beef continued on uptown.
— Jan Worthington
Voices Atop the Stairs
Dear Diary:
“Hurry Dear; we’re waiting.”
From atop the stairs they call,
while the yellow box Checker cab honks
and honks again.
