Time Of Our Life
The Paris Metro never keeps people waiting for 15 minutes. Ever. Even on Sunday nights. This happens only in New York, and most frequently, in my experience, with the L line.
Taken during today’s Royalton Hotel after-party for Alex Gibney’s My Trip To Al-Qeada — Sunday, 4.25, 6:40 pm.
Nizza on Ninth Avenue near 45th Street — Sunday, 4.25, 8:55 pm.
Half of the Tirbeca Film Festival hub-bub has been occuring on West 23rd Street and Eighth Avenue, mostly at Chelsea Clearview Cinemas. That’s IHOP publicist Jeff Hill eyeballing the camera.
Lloyd: How are things going, Mr. Torrance?
Jack: Things could be better, Lloyd. Things could be a whole lot better.
“This happens only in New York, and most frequently, in my experience, with the L line. ”
Didn’t I tell you this when you said you were moving to Williamsburg? It’s the worst real train in the city (I’m not counting the G, which might not even be as bad). A few years back, most of the bars on Metropolitan sold T-shirts making fun of the L-train.
That said, with this rain, you’re lucky it’s as good as it is.
Jeff: Couldnt you get a $1500 studio apartment in Manhattan. With your late hours, the trains blow.
Time to make the move back to the west coast, Mr. Wells.
Ah, waits like that are pretty common on the L trains in Chicago. Just refrain from using the iPod that late.
A third Gibney film? He’s the Michael Curtiz of documentarians
Jeff, the Metro in Paris stops running at about 1am. The first train of the day starts at like 5:30. So the Paris Metro would leave you waiting not 22 minutes but four hours.
I was generally referring to service around midnight or so, which is when this was taken. I know about the Paris shutdown at 1 am, but the nice thing about that town is that you can walk where you need to go in a pinch — no two points in Paris are impossibly far apart by foot, as they can be in Manhattan and London and Los Angeles and other sprawling, vastly spread-out towns.
Well, that’s the other reason it can take a NYC subway train a while to get to you during non-peak hours. The NY subway is covering much more ground than most other subways – and you can ride it as far as you like for just one fare. 24 hours a day, every day of the year including holidays.
It’s simply the best subway system in the world. Waiting 22 minutes isn’t a very big deal. I’d even go so far as to say that it’s in the bottom .5% of inconveniences faced by any human on the globe that day.
That’s fine, okay, but the L line still annoys and in fact blows for the most part. The slowest line with the most delays. I’ve stopped counting the inexplicable rush-hour delays and then having to squeeze into over-jammed trains because the L line doesn’t have enough trains running during peak demand. And those mystifying times when the train just stops and sits there between 6th Ave. and 8th Ave. And that idiotic ten-to-twelve-second delay when it finally arrives and crawls to a stop like some 87 year-old man trying to parallel-park, finally arriving at 8th Avenue — the final west side stop — and the doors won’t open until they sluggishly decide to open, and you’re standing there like a trooper going “yup, this is the fucking L line, all right…no other subway system in the world would think of waiting 10 to 12 seconds to open doors after a train has stopped at a station…only the profoundly infuriating bullshit L line.”
So move to Paris then. What the hell are you doing in Williamsburg anyway?
Actually, I saw you on the street there once, a couple of years ago, when you were still actually living out west, and I tried to flag you down, but your thoughts were elsewhere. (Perhaps along the lines of, “Yes, these people really are despicable trendoid hipsters, but they certainly keep themselves thin…”) Come to think of it, what the hell was I doing there? Probably seeing/hearing something at the Music Hall or whatnot. (Something fiercely avant-garde, for sure.) What the hell am I doing up even as we speak?
“And those mystifying times when the train just stops and sits there between 6th Ave. and 8th Ave.”
Ah, well, that’s usually because there are two L-trains waiting at 8th avenue, which often seems to happen, which brings up some obvious further questions…
I’m amused by the idea that Devin thinks that, just because the NYC subway system is the best in the world, that automatically translates to the L-train being above reproach. The L-train is just ridiculous. Sometimes they just shut down for a weekend. Great, thanks guys.
Gordn27, I don’t think it’s above reproach. Hell, in my previous life I used to work with the Straphangers Campaign, the city’s biggest subway activist group. We used to take the MTA to task for all sorts of problems and issues.
But this is the sort of whining about first world problems that is hard to get behind. Waiting 20 minutes for a train on off-peak hours isn’t exactly the kind of subway nightmare that deserves attention.
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