Topic # 1

The subway allows one to judge other5 New Yorkers, Lethmen writes
"In truth, every subway rider is an undercover officer in a precint house of mind, noticing and cataloguing outre and dissident behavior in his fellow passengers even while cultivating the apparent indifference for which New Yorkers are famous, above and below ground." But Lethmen also writes that New Yorkers cultivate their indifference in the subway, this shows that they bring their same sentiments underground as they do above. Lethmen also notes that subways are often spots for criminal activity, he lists ways to avoid trouble by looping and exiting the train at the last moment. along thew same lines as everyone being an undercover officer in the subway he notes that as a child him and his friends would come "spies, on the adults, the office wotrkers, tourists, beggars, and policemen who'd share segments of [their] endless trip." There is also an immense amount of history at every stop as Lethmen lets us know about the Hoyt street stop in Brooklyn, such things as "ghost platforms." Fpr example if you take the 6 local to Brooklyn Bridge City Hall and don't get off when you are prompted to you will end up in the old city hall station which is grand but abandoned, a "ghost station," before you change tracks to go back uptown.