stapeliad: Maybe I chose the wrong day to go uptown?

Thursday, November 07, 2024

Maybe I chose the wrong day to go uptown?

I am off work today so of course I went painting.

last-minute I decided to go up to Ft Tryon Park by the Cloisters and paint my favorite yellow tree.

I did take my work phone because we had a team meeting, and I don't like missing them.

I left early enough I figured I would be either walking in the park or already painting.

So up to Ft Tryon I went.

Got on the uptown B train at Rockefeller. *****

The train did not move.

Then it went out of service.

Ok, quick re-think: I went downtown one stop to 42nd street to catch the 1 to Columbus Circle.

Went to the AC/ DB platform to get the A.

That never arrived either.

Oh, ok apparently there was a police investigation at 72nd street. C trains were running so I got on one up to 145th st, mostly because I was tired of being at Columbus Circle.

Someone on the C train said there was a shooting at 68th street and they ran into 72nd st on the train there. Then another guy on the platform at 145 was lamenting he would never get to work, he had walked up from 125th st. He told me yes there was a shooting, he'd never be able to get to work. He took a picture of the status monitor and went home.

I dialed into my work meeting from a bench at 145th st.

This event knocked out 5 train lines (they rerouted the downtown E) for over an hour.

It landed in the NY Times.

**** that evacuated train at 72nd st was a B train, probably the one right before I got on at 34th st.

While I certainly would have gotten off at 59th street, I'm still SO GLAD it wasn't my train that got evacuated!

FINALLY the A train arrived and I got up to the park.

And took another work call.

*******

My favorite yellow tree isn't yellow yet; I'll have to go back.