With public transportation costing a pretty penny these days, some young Brooklyn entrepreneurs have created Dollar Van Demos. As the name suggests, the van provides rides for one buck, mostly in neighborhoods under-served by the MTA. The business declares, "the ride is cheap, adventurous and now immensely entertaining with the addition of performers singing their hearts out." That's right, the van doubles as a showcase stage for talented musicians, rappers and comedians. The best thing is, the performances (and audience reactions) are recorded and logged on their YouTube page. It's so hard to pick a favorite! Here's one regular, Sally Connors, belting it out.
FreeWilliamsburg puts their spotlight on frequent van rapper Crosby, whose other work you can check out at his website: Crosmopolitan.com. It is our hope that a Crosby and Connors collaboration is in the works.
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#5 is in response to robingee's comment #1, which failed to post as a "reply"
robingee
heh.
damn not-getting-sarcasmers!!!
ANGRYGOD11
How much extra to shut them up?
hungrycity
there is so much material in this post to work with and this is all you can come up with?
It gets my vote for "laziest, most overused [and misused] comment on gothamist"
robingee
quiet, hipster!
Think2wice
Dollar vans are back. More private transit I say. Let them be licensed to have MetroCard readers installed in their vehicles.
babyhitler
after listening to this I know now how Jiverly Wong feels. Man, I would so rage if I had to sit through this for my commute.
Geoelh
Whatever works to move people around I guess... although it's not great that our transit system begins to look MORE like Lima's, for example. I might have previously made a comment about the sketch nature of such services, but can it be much worse than this? http://gothamist.com/2009/04/03/subway_platform_rape_victim_speak_o.php
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