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From the looks of these photos, the commute home for those on the L train was no fun last night. On the same day that riders on the line were asked to rate the service, service came to a halt during the evening rush. Who's to blame? It seems like the MTA actually gets a pass this time. Rumor has it that someone pulled the emergency brake.
The MTA is looking for riders to fill out a "Rider Report Card" for all the lines right now (all languages). MTA Executive Director and CEO writes to readers, "This survey will measure your experience with our service and help us direct our resources to the areas where they are most needed. Your ride is our responsibility. Your trip should be on time, clean, and comfortable, and announcements should be clear and informative. Your comments count. Our goal is to serve you better." Uh huh.
If you took the L train last night, how messed up was your commute?
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hahahaha Man, look at all those hipsters. Funny!
wow....i'm glad i rode my bike home!
come on, this looks like the 4/5 platform during every rush hour. why aren't THOSE lines getting all this attention?
I'd rather walk all the way home
hahahaha...hipster hell...maybe they'll all move back to ohio, detroit, etc...Leave NY to the NY natives and immigrants!!
I second jimmylegs on the 4/5 platforms.
As for the emergency brake, I was once on a 5 train where some freak pulled the brake because she and another beast were fighting over a seat. Stopped us dead for over half an hour while they figured out what happened and got the train back up and running.
Ha, ha, yes, hipsters are funny! When they try to do things such as travel via subway it's even more funny! And people who ride mass transit are morons! Only bikes and walking are admirable!
C'mon, people. Give it a rest. "Hipsters" should be accepted and welcomed just like any other subgroup in this city. They go to work and pay taxes just like everyone else. And if you're so pro-bike and anti-mass transit, move to Portland.
After I got to the Bedford stop at around 830, I waited for a shuttle bus for about 30 minutes, got fed up with the huge crowd and walked the 2.5 miles home.
What! I see like two, maybe three hipsters in both photos combined.
Yeah! Back to where you came from hipsters. Gosh, if only all those beats who came to New York back in the day had stayed where they were from...
"Leave NY to the NY natives"
The Lenapes?
Do you guys know what a hipster looks like? From the looks of this photo I guess I'd say they look like everyone else who rides the subway. And looking like the rest of the general population is not part of that cliche of hipster traits.
i guess jimmylegs & #6 have never heard of the 2nd avenue subway.
Rush hour is too crowded. Get some drinks after work and take the train home at 8:00pm. The trains are a lot less crowded then.
And please, there aren't any hipsters left in Williamsburgh, they all moved to SoBro.
I totally agree, DCfist and saveferris47. It's time people quit hating on groups that are different from them. What if someone wrote, "Ha ha! Look at all those Hasidim! Funny!" Not cool.
I can't see any of their hips!
We hipsters live from 3av to Graham, so this is really not that bad for most us. Its all the guys that live past graham that get real fucked.
I'm still waiting for my comment card. They haven't been in the Graham stop yet.
They were making announcements about the outage at 8th Ave., but only not in the platform, not on the train where everyone was sitting and waiting for the train to leave. It was pretty unintelligible as it was, but when it's not even broadcast where people can hear it, it's totally useless.
on the platform, I mean. I got Gothamistitis
I work near Canal, so I took the train up to Union Sq to catch the L, waited and waited, took the train back down to Canal to catch the M, walked over to the the bus and took that somewhere near my neck of the woods. Thank you MTA for making my 30-min commute into 1.5 hour adventure.
What! I see like two, maybe three hipsters in both photos combined.
Exactly! And even so, who even cares about hipsters? I think it's funny how people are so stuck on them—as if people's lives here aren't stressful enough.
I can just picture posters number 1 and 5 railing their fist in the air, muttering various curses about hipsters just because they didn't manage to get a seat on the train. People should get over themselves and try to relax.
What's the point of having the emergency brake accessible to the public anyway? Those MTA Emergency Instructions always say "DO NOT pull the emergency brake".
What, are we worried about an old-timey frontier-style runaway train?
@ 1 and 5: Hipsters? That first picture is full of old men and the second one looks like a lot of pissed off people waiting for a train. How does this image equate to hipsters? You have no idea what you are talking about. I am sure you both live in the coolest, most chill place in NYC ever where wine flows from the water fountains and you shit roses, but some of us don't. Some have to commute. Stop hating. I doubt you are originally from NY, probably Greenwich, CT. Stop being so lame.
I didn't know hipsters lived in canarsie.
I don't get this hostility against hipsters. Is it their contribution to cultural decay? Their less-than-humorous ironic humor? Their bad dance-rock music? Their penchant for sheepdom (what human doesn't have this)? I really don't see what the big deal is. I say, live and let live.
Better an apparent trust fund kid who seemingly does nothing with his/her life other than barhopping on the LES, than someone who damages communities by spreading the word of "Stop Snitching."
Uh, these two pictures probably contain the least amount of hipsters I've seen on an L train platform. So tell me 1 & 5, what tour book did you read about 'hipsters' and where they live in the city...
if you deny there's hipsters, you're a hipster,
I see at least three hipsters in the first left hand photo, second photo I see one but it's not a good photo.
Everyone sucks but you and your clique. That is the rationale most people adhere to nowadays. Its sad, but true.
#25, many people who comment here tend to be very bitter...ignore them.
And the MTA sucks (I hope that didn't sound TOO bitter)!
This looks like the 59th street stop in Bay Ridge - every single night - while people wait for the R after getting off of the N.
I took the L (not as a commuter, but I found myself in Union Sq that evening) closer to 9 and was waiting for a Brooklyn Bound train for a while. It was crowded, but not as packed as pictured above. The train terminated at Bedford "due to a stalled train" or something. The number of folks waiting for a shuttle made walking to my destination the best option. Also saw a good number of folks waiting outside the Lorimer stop.
if you deny there's hipsters, you're a hipster
Haha. "If you're not with us, you're against us."
TM, what time was this picture taken?
during the normal rush? Normal rush hour being 5pm or during a hipster rush hour?
what's a hipster rush hour? where I used to work the hours were from 10am to 7pm and it's hipster central. and, transplant heaven.
This city is infested with humans.
Yep - the "New York Natives" had things in real great shape here by 1980 or so...
What's a hipster to do!?
#27
No one has denied that there are hipsters in NY, and where the L runs through, simply that you have no idea what hipsters look like.
As stated earlier, these pictures have so few hipsters that I'm surprised they're actually snapshots of an L-train platform.
Ah, yes. We hipsters have our own special rush hours so we don't have to mingle with the common folk. And it IS quite heavenly, as 33 noted... Who let him in, anyway?
I would love for someone to take these photos and somehow indicate which riders are hipsters. Anyone?
Its official: The L train wins the award dor the city's most overrated subway line.
Wonder how many whitebread hipsters that use this line have taken it past Myrtle-Wyckoff, Bway Junction or all the way to Canarsie? That I'd like to see. Y'all like urban edgy? Check out the stretch between Atlantic Ave and East 105. plenty of edgy to psare and then some. (Just be sure to wear body armor ha ha)
I hate hipsters as much as the next guy, but I don't see many in those pictures.
what's a hipster? anyone remember that pic of the hipster sitting in his vintage sofa chair with his hipster sneakers on the subway seat?
more than 90 percent of the gothamist staff are hipsters. You can be a young hipster or an old hipster. Conservative Republicans are rarely hipsters. Young republicans are definitely not hipsters if you've even been to a YR convention.
When I looked on the MTA site @ 8:30 pm last night it said that the train wasn't running "because of debris on the tracks at the Morgan Avenue Station." Hm...
Now you got me questioning myself,
what's the difference between a hipster and a sheeple? both follow trends and want to be in with the in crowd, is that correct?
According to SubChat:
They are running Shuttle Buses Between those two stations and Shuttle train service from Bedford to 8th Aves as well as Canraise to Atlantic ave.
All this is Due to a jacked Up third Rail in the Area Between Jefferson and Montrose..
The Third Rail took out a few contatct Shoes from a Train,so you know there is Major Drama going on right now..
Lucky NorthEastern is on the Shuttle End, from Canarise to Atlantic Ave.
Oh and P.S this is NOT i repeat NOT a CBTC issue, heh heh ..
The shuttles were nonexistent. That crowd of people on the subway platform was about half the size of the crowd standing outside waiting for the shuttles. I ended up going back to Manhattan and taking a different train home. Also, I'm not a hipster and most of the peeps that were screwed by this weren't either. Surprisingly, there are people who live beyond Bushwick. *shock*
Morons... all hipsters make art and work at home, frequently leaving the apartment for a chai or yerba mate. They don't actually ride the L train, they just happen to live near it.
Schadenfreude is alive and well on Gothamist.
According to 2 subway booth operators, the power was turned off due to signal malfunction. Subchat sounds about right. This isn't the first time. 2 weeks ago, i was caught in the subway between Montrose and Jefferson St for 45 minutes due to signal malfunction. This time, they just shut the whole thing down.
I ended up taking the M to Myrtle/Wycoff and walking it to Jefferson. My roommate took it to Bedford and walked it home. It took us both an hour from Union Square.
There were NO shuttles and people kept waiting around Bedford for something to happen. I don't know when it was turned on again, but at 10pm it was still inoperable. I was happy to receive my "How are we doing" form today. Especially after the "five weekends" of shut down L service on the weekends, even though it was only 4.
i don't see too many hipsters but i see some readsters. freakin readsters reading all over the place. go back to barnes & noble, you freaks!
#40
I've been out to New Lots more than my fair share of times and it's really not all that edgy. Mostly residential. Never felt threatened or intimidated.
Maybe if you could elaborate on what "urban edgy" means for you?
okay, but seriously, i really hate hipsters.
and the L train. . man. what a doozey that is.
but i hate hipsters.
People who bitch about hipsters are hipsters themselves.
Ignore these 20 something trend following kids who generally are aimless and working crappy retail jobs. It makes them go away.
I hate hipsters, too.
they raise the rent up wherever they go.
molon labe
I took the L home at 7:30, and I walked home. I didn't even know there were shuttle busses, the announcements were so garbled.
My walk wasn't far - I feel bad for the people who normally take it to Canarsie.
Could someone identify the super-hot trends these so-called hipsters are following? Dressing in thrift store clothes is nothing new, and a lot of the bands that play at McCarren pool (for example) have been around for years.
Could it be that these people have just built a community around things they actually like? Is it their fault that they're often closely tailed by marketers and yuppies in search of cheap, chic neighborhoods? Why don't you guys just lay off?
No.
midtown moper wins this post!
if you don't know what a hipster is, read this blog.
Well, you're reading Gothamist, so if you're not a hipster, you're probably... a yuppie! Maybe I've just stumbled upon the origin of all the hipster-hate. You guys are trying to take the heat off the yuppies! Sneaky, sneaky!
all you frustrated hipster posers...you contribute nothing to NY culture...your not the beat generation...your wannabes who imitate not create!!..move back to middle america and have your 4 white trash kids already!
I'm sure the Lenape Indians were also shaking their fists at those pesky hipsters they had to deal with in 1626. If anyone thinks they have the "right" to live here you're hilarious!!
My commute home on the Q late at night is always a flippin nightmare! It takes forever for the train to show up and then stops at pacific where everyone has to go down to the boiling Atlantic platform and wait another half hour for the train to brooklyn.
But I guess the working class Q train riders get no respect. The Q only goes through 2 or 3 hip neighborhoods and those people never take the Q home late at night. We suffer in silence.
wannabe Lenape Indian!!!..im impressed that you managed to open a history book...see if you can search for someone who "Cares"!
There are exactly 8 hipsters in the two cobined photos. The two girls in the back, that one fella with the yella shirt, and the group of Jainists up front eating ice cream.
The rest, as they say, are extras.
this is the most retarded argument I've ever seen
"Leave NY to the NY natives"
I see. So NYC should force out everyone who actually made a conscious decision to move here from elsewhere in the US, and leave the city to the bitter, complaining natives who don't like it here, but are too lazy to go someplace else?
Ingenious!
Lucky I missed taking the L last night--instead biked to/from work.....Got that rider report card today. Gonna say something about needing more trains, etc....
I got off the G at Lorimer (which is a hell ride unto itself) only to hear "No L train service". I take the L to the last stop. There was no other instruction or indication of what the problem was, just a "No service on the L line".I took the G further into Brooklyn, got off at Hoyt and then walked over to Nevins for the 2. Then caught a bus. Ugh.
I was on the stalled train - and im so frustrated with the lack of communication by the MTA to tell us what was going on or what they intended to do to get us out of there. it really sucked.
and also...the rumour that someone pulled the emergency brake is false. the train "ran out of power" they didnt have enough power to get us to bedford avenue. (as was the MTA's official declaration) finally our "emergency subway" rolled up behind us and we all had to get out and ride this new train back to 1st avenue.