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dessgeega

so i'm going to a party this weekend in park slope. we're meeting at a place off of union street.

i don't know brooklyn at all. how might one get down to this locale from the (tremont-area) bronx?
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dhex · Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 9:33 am Post subject:

union st. and what?

the union st. stop on the R train is on 4th avenue. the B/D stops at 34th herald square in manhattan and you can switch to the R there. the R looks clear this weekend as far as fucknuttery construction goes.

if you're going to be closer to the park, there's a 7th ave stop on 9th street off of the F, but that involves going north for a few blocks. so the R is probably your best bet.
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dessgeega · Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 1:42 am Post subject:

5th.

hey, the r stops 23rd and broadway, which is where i get off my bus. and then it runs to union and union and fourth. those are non-late night stops, though, and i'll probably be heading back pretty late. hm.
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dhex · Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 8:35 am Post subject:

ok, alternate back route that will run at night (barring construction):

afterwards walk down to 4th avenue and 9th street, take an f train to 23rd and 6th, and walk over to broadway from there.

though i've ridden the r late at night, i know i have...
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dessgeega · Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 9:04 am Post subject:

you're invaluable, m. o'connor. thanks!
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dessgeega · Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 1:57 am Post subject:

yeah okay the f isn't stopping at that station this weekend. i had to phone in a ride because by the time i would have transferred i would have missed my bus. but i got to the party, and it was hot.

now my wallet's missing.
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dhex · Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 1:57 pm Post subject:

aww fuck, the f train was all full of bullshit this weekend. (took me an hour to go from 23rd st in manhattan to carroll st friday night)

yeah, all you could have done on the way back was pick another subway line or walk over to carroll st and grab the f there. it was running a line from west 4th to jay street, though that wouldn't have affected anything.

mta sucks.
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dessgeega · Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 12:18 pm Post subject:

hey, is there any way to check online whether a train is running? i'm thinking of going to this month's party and i don't want to be stranded in brooklyn again.
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dhex · Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 12:40 pm Post subject:

the mta offers weekend updates, but they're not always accurate, as you may have noticed.

http://www.mta.info/nyct/service/subsrvnweekend.htm
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david · . Joined: 03 Mar 2005 Posts: 170 Location: b, md

dhex, you the smartest muhfucker in the whole clan, you always on point.
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dizzyjosh · . Joined: 20 Jun 2006 Posts: 64

dhex · Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 11:22 am Post subject:

that is indeed jay st. - borough hall.

the f train can kiss my grits though, lately it's been a serious nightmare. and not like when school comes back in (the only great thing about summer is that my morning and evening commutes aren't totally fucked up most of the time) but slow, changing over to the g after one stop, and filled to the brim with assholes and fuckfaces who just aren't having any of it.

if you're that self-centered, go get rich and hire a private car service. otherwise, stop trying to shove people out of the way. i'm looking at you, fat little old ladies who do nothing but pinch people instead of saying excuse me.
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dizzyjosh · . Joined: 20 Jun 2006 Posts: 64

dhex · Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 11:37 am Post subject:

dude, that's like 90% of the people on the subway. why move when you can stand in someone's way?
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dhex · Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 1:47 pm Post subject:

http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/009536.html
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FortNinety · Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 12:01 am Post subject:

FortNinety · Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 12:02 am Post subject:

BTW, the MTA is now offering podcasts to keep folks informed of service changes and yada, yada, yada. If I seriously needed another reason to hate podcasts.

simplicio · . Joined: 03 May 2005 Posts: 1091

Why would anyone want to spend time thinking about the MTA when it wasn't an absolute necessity?

dhex · Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 7:50 am Post subject:

i like fantasizing about having the brass arrested for war crimes and tried and executed by an ad hoc revolutionary committee in union square? can you imagine their bodies swaying the breeze three months later during the hottest months of summer? it might even keep the itinerant hippie pigfucks away for a while.

"please mister, my dog is hungry"
"well little lady, then you'd better eat it now before it loses any more weight."
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simplicio · . Joined: 03 May 2005 Posts: 1091

dhex, you should watch Kontroll. It's a hungarian drama/dark comedy about a gang of subway cops in budapest. Ultimately a little too much Donnie Darko, but there's some great harrassment of and by metro workers that I found slightly theraputic.