A man with a broomstick for a walking stick coughs a cough that dies in his warming cuff.
Transit Authority #102
Young students swearing to never drink again like they did last night, mixing vodka with beer with champagne, and a boyfriend is being a dick, and did anyone see Carla crying on the steps, did anyone see the video of Carla crying?
Transit Authority #101
Fine strings of dangling rhinestones, falling from either side of a pom-pom beanie.
Transit Authority #100
A woman in a shawl fans herself with her hand, curses under her breath, whispers on about the heat, and offers a withering side eye to the young woman that finally sits down next to her.
Transit Authority #099
A man dances, snaps his fingers and slurs the song that's playing in his earbuds, - All I want is youUuUu - while next to him stands a statuesque young man, stylish and stoically enjoying his noise cancellation.
Transit Authority #098
A Streetwise vendor removing the apron, folding it, and fitting it carefully into a tote.
Transit Authority #097
A liver-spotted hand on the handle of a black metal folding shopping trolley, ring finger adorned with a Freemason's ring.
Transit Authority #096
Motorists learning how to operate motorcycles in a parking lot, and a few are on mopeds.
Transit Authority #095
The preening gestures of a balding man.
Transit Authority #094
I look around the night train but not too much, and see all the lined faces.
Transit Authority #093
On a snowless frozen night, a passenger kicks their boots up onto the handicapped seating.
Transit Authority #092
A young woman raises her right and hesitates, hesitates, and finally yanks the cable.
Transit Authority #091
I hate half a bagel this morning before the train came. So the rest, I had a window sill breakfast. I set my coffee on the windowsill, and ate the rest of the bag of while it was still hot.
Transit Authority #090
Day after the CLC gala exhibition. Too tired on the way to the Filter space to help Shawn R install his solo show to observe the passengers in a meaningful way. Just dark jackets, pink sky.
Transit Authority #089
A man with slicked-back green hair, square jaw and a Spiderman hoodie, crossing over in real time.
Transit Authority #088
Girl hippie in a high vis on a tall bike to a comrade boy hippie with white guy dreads down to his ass on a ten-foot bike, rock music blaring:
"It took us no time to get down here."
"What?!"
"It took us no time to get down here!"
Transit Authority #087
A woman swallowed in her coat permits her phone porn to play at top volume on the morning ride, and then there is the brushing of puffy fabric as she races to silence it.
Transit Authority #086
This could be the year of the denim-stud jean jacket, and that of the full-faced balaclava.
Transit Authority #085
Jaguar-print
Pink polka-dots on a chartreuse field
White stars on a blue field
Gray fleur-de-lis on a black field
Black Hawaiian flowers on a white field
White polkadots on a gray field
Black monochrome plaid
The symmetrical in form but asymmetrical in pattern clothing marketed to consumer athletes
Houndstooth on accessories
Black check over pink, cream, light gray and dark gray
Red and blue tartan on a white field
Sunrise projecting leaf-shadows on the bodies of the passengers, and window-scrim on my jacket
Louis Vuitton pattern
Leopard print
Transit Authority #084
The passenger behind me, growling.