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Silver Lining

ltrainsign2.jpgMy commute sucked this morning, and so did just about everyone else’s. But I think we need to take some joy in this thought:

At one point this morning, the L train was not running. The G train was not running, either. On top of that, car services in North Brooklyn were reporting up to 90-minute wait times. So, during that period between about 7am and 10am this morning, hipsters from Williamsburg could not get to Manhattan.

And I believe our city is better because of it.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, August 8th, 2007 at 10:58 am and is filed under Life in NYC. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

5 Responses to “Silver Lining”

  1. August 8th, 2007 at 12:19 pm

    says:

    Ouch. I actually missed the L today. All I was thinking about as I was wandering around in other parts of Brooklyn this morning, vaguely lost, was that if I still lived in Williamsburg, at least I would know my options.

  2. August 8th, 2007 at 1:06 pm

    says:

    Manhattan wasn’t much better. It took me almost an hour to get from the East Village to midtown.

  3. August 8th, 2007 at 2:46 pm

    says:

    at least it wasn’t ridiculously humid out…oh wait.

  4. August 8th, 2007 at 3:32 pm

    says:

    “At one point this morning, the L train was not running”

    And this is different from a normal day?

  5. August 9th, 2007 at 12:25 pm

    says:

    People who pay $1,000 less a month in rent than some jackass in the east village had trouble getting into the city.

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