More people rely on mass transit in NYC than here in Philly. I can't imagine what it's like up there now with the strike. I used to take Metro-North in from the 'burbs into Grand Central Station. From there, it was several stops down on the 6 Train to Spring St. That's one hell of a hike on foot. I used to work by 33/Lexington and every once in awhile, I'd walk the ten blocks from GCT to the office, that's a nice walk in the summer. But in the winter, the main streets turn into wind tunnels. Oh the cold.
I wonder what my sister and brother in law are doing now out in Queens. They both work in midtown.
I remember the blackout three summers ago in NYC. I walked like ninety blocks uptown to my sister's place and then up nine flights of stairs in the pitch black dark. I lost track of the floors at some point. Walking in a pitch black stairwell is quite humbling. Not knowing how many steps there are, where the stairs turn the corner, where the next set of stairs starts, where the door is OUT of the stairwell. That sucked.
Tons of people are walking to work I guess as reported in this NY Times story. And allegedly, Mayor Bloomberg. Odd though, I thought he lived upwotn in his gigantic mansion. I guess he took a warm and toasty limo ride over to Brooklyn and then got out and walked back across the bridge with the hoi polloi. When multi-billionaires walk.
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