Subway Racing

Williamsburg Bridge

"I'm from New York. I could only race subways."
Vin Diesel, Vin Diesel

Subway System

Corona Yard

"I hate the New York City subway system. They're not train cars, they're urinals with wheels. And they're dangerous. If I want to spend time locked up with a creepy, stinky old perv, I'll pay a conjugal visit to Phil Spector."
Joan Rivers, I Hate Everyone.. Starting with Me

Circle of Woe

"I boarded a train, the number six, packed with disparate, desperate New Yorkers, underscoring the sad fact that although people can break up, places cannot. New York was doomed to be locked together into one unharmonious circle of woe."
Arthur Nersesian, Manhattan Loverboy

Disordered Mind

Bleeker Street

"The New York subway is a vast disordered mind, obsessing in ruts carved by trauma a century earlier."
Jonathan Lethem, Chronic City

No Signs of Weakness

 "At the height of rush hour, people on the London underground actually say "excuse me." Imagine what would happen if you tried an insane stunt like that on the New York City subway. The other passengers would take it as a sign of weakness, and there'd be a fight over who got to keep your ears as a trophy."
Dave Barry, There's No Toilet Paper . . . on the Road Less Traveled

Subway

Times Square subway station

"Only real New Yorkers can find their way around in the subway. If just anybody could find his way around in the subway, there wouldn't be any distinction in being a real New Yorker except talking funny."
Calvin Trillin, With All Disrespect

Jostling for Space

96th Street Station

"New Yorkers are so accustomed to subways and elevators, fighting to get a seat and jostling for space, that it's a hard habit to break. They come skiing in Vermont and spend all day charging lifts."
John Hilferty, Moonlight in Vermont

A New Yorker Who Doesn't Take the Subway

Union Square subway station

"A New Yorker who does not take the subway is not a New Yorker you can trust."
Mozzie (Willie Garson), White Collar

The Worst Place to Lose Something

Court Square subway station

"The worst place to lose something in New York City is the place where you cannot go to get it even if you find it, even if it is just beyond your reach: the track bed of the subway, where neither station agent nor police nor firefighter will descend, where the rat holds dominion, where the third rail silently harbors its 600 volts and where a 350-ton train could be right around the corner."
Randy Kennedy, Subwayland

Subway Murders

6 Subway Car

"In New York, most people don't have cars, so if you want to kill a person, you have to take the subway to their house. And sometimes on the way, the train is delayed and you get impatient, so you have to kill someone on the subway. That's why there are so many subway murders; no one has a car."
George Carlin, Brain Droppings

Subway Feeling

Subway sign on Central Park West

"I love New York. The thing I love about it the most is, even when I'm not in the subway, I feel like I am."
Bill Maher, True Story

Subway Lessons

14st Street Subway Station

"I've been on the New York City subway enough times to know that respectful speech, polite manners, and proper etiquette aren't the requirement everywhere!"
Jordan Christy, How to Be a Hepburn in a Hilton World