Gothamist: Yum! Hair in the Subway

Toby

Tue, 13 Dec 2005 21:55:42 -0500

Most likely that was the station Roger Touissant was supposed to clean, but why should transit workers do their jobs?

Dirk

Tue, 13 Dec 2005 20:39:21 -0500

C'mon, guys obviously that's not human hair. It's C.H.U.D. hair.

Ed

Tue, 13 Dec 2005 20:24:42 -0500

That's why I don't wear my shoes in my apartment! I am not a germaphobe, but that's pretty bad.

Chris

Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:36:53 -0500

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.

Donald Trump

Tue, 13 Dec 2005 15:28:11 -0500

So thats where I left my Toupee

Emily

Tue, 13 Dec 2005 15:20:55 -0500

I with Tien . . . looks like some sort of insulation . . . I would be more worried about asbestos (or however you spell it.

Jeff

Tue, 13 Dec 2005 14:53:23 -0500

From the Fulton Street Trade Card collection: http://fulton.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/enlarge.asp?card=fc-0053

Rocknrope

Tue, 13 Dec 2005 14:50:19 -0500

How much to eat it?

joe

Tue, 13 Dec 2005 13:55:20 -0500

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.

tien

Tue, 13 Dec 2005 12:53:57 -0500

i'm guessing there used to be something between the steps and where the photo was taken - perhaps a piece of metal.

MT

Tue, 13 Dec 2005 12:46:33 -0500

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?