Comments on: Subway sightseeing for the natives

By: Chaim

Chaim — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 06:15:52 +0000

The view from the Manhattan bridge has always been a favorite of mine.

This isn’t on the list, and it’s not really like the other aerial sights on the list, but if you stay on the downtown 6 train past Brooklyn Bridge, you get a quick, lovely tour of the old abandoned City Hall station!

By: cda

cda — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:48:38 +0000

The 7 train, on the curve between 45 Road/Court House Square and Hunters Point Avenue. You see 5 Points, which is an awesome warehouse where wall space is allocated out to graffiti artists. Tons of beautiful street art pieces to be seen!

By: bennett

bennett — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:25:37 +0000

The 1 above Harlem at 125th Street. Beautiful architecture and city life — clothes hanging out windows to dry, etc.

Also, as noted before, the 1 through Inwood into the Bronx.

By: Marsha

Marsha — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 18:47:07 +0000

Somehow I missed this post but I have to agree that I get the shivers whenever the 4 train goes above ground and I get my first sighting of Yankee Stadium. It never gets old and I’ve been going to games for over 35 years.

By: mg

mg — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:50:45 +0000

I love riding the N in Queens parallel to the city. The view is beautiful at night in particular. Magic even. Maybe I’m just partial because it’s the view of home getting close.

By: Tomás

Tomás — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 07:37:53 +0000

If I would have to recommend a Subway ride to a turist, I would say take the 7 train towards Manhattan to see the skyline, or ride the F to Brooklyn.

But speaking of myself as a native New Yorker, I would say, of course, the # 1 train north of Dyckman, especially when approaching the Van Cortlandt Pk. terminal. Reminds me my childhood, while I was raised in Uptown Manhattan.

Also the A over the Jamaica Bay, this is also a sad reminder of the nearby Kennedy Airport for me. In fact, the last view I saw from the plane’s windows while waiting to take off, on my last trip to New York, was of the trains running through the bay. It was in the afternoon, so you could see clearly the lights of the trains running towards the Rockaways while crossing another ones going Manhattan-bound.

By: Victoria

Victoria — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 23:23:34 +0000

oh man, you both said what i was going to say. guess we’re related. and too long that view won’t be around for much longer

By: wayne's world

wayne's world — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:47:05 +0000

The number 4 sweeping north out of the tunnel and revealing Yankee Stadium is mine, though you won’t be surprised to hear that and it’s not original since you just mentioned it. I suspect our mutual admiration of it is no coincidence.

That view holds the promise of another Yankee win and a trip into history–it’s not just the view, it’s the sense that I’m about to enter into another world.

I always thought I’d use the word “eternal” to describe it and I’m sad to know that I’ll only have this experience for another year.