How To Ride The Subway – Jimmy Lebenthal

Those signal lights that you can see when you look down the track indicate whether the “block” of track moving ahead to the next signal is occupied by a train or not. If the light is green, there is no train ahead and any train can freely move forward. A red signal means the immediate block ahead is occupied by a train. Yellow is, as with a traffic light, a caution that, while the block ahead is unoccupied, it wasn’t too long ago that a train was in it.

The logic of the signal lights goes thusly: If you see a red light on the Local track, you know there is a Local train just ahead. And since the subways have a reasonable amount of spacing between them, to allow time for passengers to accumulate in the stations before boarding, you can deduce that a train won’t be immediately entering that block of track.

So, if you pull into Chambers Street, or any station where you want to make a Local connection, and you are not sure if a Local will soon be coming, look at the signal down the Local track. If it shows red, a train just left, and it’s likely to be a wait before the next Local train comes. So, you may want to stay on the Express, even if it means a slightly longer walk. That may turn out to be faster than waiting for the Local.

A green light tells you that it has been some time since a train was in the station. The green signal is a bit vague though. It doesn’t tell you how long ago the train left the station, just that it’s been long enough to clear the red signal from the block of track ahead. Nuances to the above process abound.

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Was I a late-twentieth-century urban reincarnation of Billy the Kid? Or a precocious arctic explorer? No, its origin traces back to when I was six years old, and my father took me down to visit his office in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan. While I had been to his office before, these had always been weekend visits and we would drive down the West Side Highway—the old, decrepit elevated West Side Highway that literally collapsed one day in 1973 under the weight of a truck. At the time of our drives to work, the elevated highway provided a prominent view of a still-working New York City waterfront.

Cruise ships, cargo ships, and occasional warships lined the plentiful wharfs along 12th Avenue. But then one weekday we went by subway—the New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s (MTA’s) 7th Avenue IRT line—and so began a lifelong fascination.

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