A train commute

I use the A a lot for work, and it flies from Midtown to Downtown during the day. Columbus Circle to Canal or Chambers is 25 minutes, so I can get from Midtown to pretty much anywhere downtown in half an hour.

Plus, how many subway lines have their own song?

The two challenges are "not during the day" -- I think it's slower at night -- and if you have either a leg uptown north of Columbus Circle or a Brooklyn leg, both of which I think run slower than the "middle" part.

ali r.
{downtown broker}

haven't been on it for years but used to love the 59th to 125th experience on the express. that sucker started to shake and sway...it felt that you were on the way to the moon.

My office is on 16th St and 6th Avenue. A number of years back we bought a unit at 125 Cabrini. I was SHOCKED at how quickly I got back and forth on the A train. It took less time than getting to most places on the UWS or UES (by trains).

Side note: Does anyone remember the movie "Brother from Another Planet"?

From omdb.com :"The Brother is an alien who has crash-landed on Earth, in New York City. While mute, strongly empathic, and able to fix things, he resembles a Black man with strange feet. His attempt to make a place for himself in Harlem is an allegory for the immigrant experience in the United States. Meanwhile, two bounty hunters from the Brother's home planet arrive and try to capture him. Written by Reid Gagle

A slave from outer space escapes to earth. Except for his three-toed feet, he looks like an ordinary young black man. He crash-lands on Ellis Island, appropriately enough, and ends up in Harlem. There he makes friends with the owner and the regulars of a bar. Because he can fix any machine (by simply touching it), he's able to make money. He's mute, which proves more of an advantage than a disadvantage. And he can heal himself and others with nothing but his hands. His real troubles begin when two extraterrestrial bounty hunters attempt to recapture him and bring him back to where he came from. Written by J. Spurlin "

This was in 1984, so the gentrification of Harlem was pretty non-existent at that point.

Anyway, in one of the best NY inside jokes in film history, the guy who befriends the alien and the alien are on the A train going uptown. The guys says something like "Do you want to see a magic trick?".
"I'm going to snap my fingers and ALL the white people are going to get off the train". So he snaps his fingers and the A train pulls into the 59th St/Columbus Circle stop. You can guess what happens next.

yeah, I like express trains too. Anytime I take a train through one of the East River tunnels, the train goes so fast it feels like it's going to de-rail any minute.

oh alpster---you're embarrassing me.

columbiacounty -- this is a family discussion board. Keep it clean.

trying to -- uncomfortable that he/she agrees with me. makes me look bad. i already look bad enough...don't need this because of random nostalgic remark about subway. sorry.