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Gothamist hopes you ate lunch already, because after we saw these photos on Joe's site of subway platform hair at 72nd St, we just about vomited in our mouths. Heck, there might have actually been a little something that came up. Joe estimates that the "slimy, crusty hair" is an accumulation of 3-4 years. Click for a larger, more sickening look at his find.
Mental note, disinfect shoes when we enter our homes. Maybe we can walk around with the little booties that people wear over their shoes in hospitals and surgical masks. Spruce Moose, here we come!
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I don't understand. That must be something else. How can hair just randomly collect/concentarte there? Why have we never seen anything like that at other subway stations? Is there something like this at other subway stations? Do I just live in ignorant bliss?
i'm guessing there used to be something between the steps and where the photo was taken - perhaps a piece of metal.
It didn't make sense to me either, MT. Why would the hair accumulate on just one step? I think Tien's guess that something was blocking the clump is right. There was definite drippage and the beginnings of stalagmite formation on top of the hair.
How much to eat it?
From the Fulton Street Trade Card collection:
http://fulton.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/enlarge.asp?card=fc-0053
I with Tien . . . looks like some sort of insulation . . . I would be more worried about asbestos (or however you spell it.
So thats where I left my Toupee
Lets give those guys that are supposed to be sweeping up that stuff a 20% raise every year.
It was going to just be 8%, but we all know the base salary is just enough for them to show up and sleep, you have to pay them on top of that to actually do the job.
That's why I don't wear my shoes in my apartment! I am not a germaphobe, but that's pretty bad.
C'mon, guys obviously that's not human hair. It's C.H.U.D. hair.
Most likely that was the station Roger Touissant was supposed to clean, but why should transit workers do their jobs?