He looked like just another straphanger, traveling from Kensington, Brooklyn, into Manhattan.
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But if you're not a straphanger, you might not know how squeezed things have become.
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So why are cities bad for us, and should the average straphanger consider moving out?
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The encounter was not captured on video, and the police have not yet located the straphanger to interview.
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"Like every other straphanger in the city, I have grievances against politicians — the kind of people who get rich on taxpayers' money," he said.
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According to the New York Post, straphanger Matt Beary captured one man's death wish of a stunt last Friday on his way to work.
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Straphanger stories: After Monday's epic delay on the F and G trains, the Riders Alliance released a compilation of the Worst Commutes of 210.
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Moscow is home to a massive population of street dogs, many of whom have learned how to ride the subway just like any other straphanger.
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You have to feel for the straphanger: After tolerating years of subpar service, did we really think that it could get so much worse so fast?
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One courageous straphanger was thoughtful enough to capture the entire grisly scene on film, so we can all bask in the wonders of New York City nature.
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A New York City man who was arrested Monday bashed a fellow subway rider with a metal pipe over the weekend, fracturing the straphanger&aposs skull, police said.
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And now, unfortunately, we have even more proof that now is, without a doubt, the worst time to commute: On Wednesday, straphanger Eric Chan witnessed part of the ceiling in the Borough Hall station fall into a massive pile of debris.
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Chan, Sewell (03-13-2009), "MTA warns of dire fiscal picture," New York Times City Room blog. The group's name is derived from the colloquial term "straphanger" for transit riders who gripped the hanging leather straps to keep their balance while the vehicle was in motion.
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Hall married Mary Ann Elizabeth Symes, of Kingston Russell, on 29 November 1883; the ceremony was held in Long Bredy, Dorset, with the rector Henry Pigou presiding. The two had four children, three of whom survived: Cecil Symes (born 1887), Irene Clark (born 1886), and the entomologist Wilfrid John (born 1892). Hall was a member of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, joining in 1910. Having spent time in Peckham as a child, Hall disparaged the "straphanger", which he blamed with divesting the suburb of its "mild air of suburban gentility" and turning it into "weekly property".
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The conference has been held in major cities around the world, including Portland, Oregon, United States in 2008 (its first time in North America), and has also been in Istanbul, Turkey; Bogota, Colombia; Budapest, Hungary; Berlin, Germany; Prague, Czech Republic; Timișoara, Romania; and Lyon, France. The conference series attempts to bridge the gap between many of the diverse people and organizations interested in reducing urban dependence on the automobile. Transportation Alternative's Annual Commuter Race pits a bicyclist against both a subway rider and a cab rider in a race from Queens to Manhattan. The Fifth Annual Commuter race took place in May 2009, where bicyclist Rachel Myers beat straphanger Dan Hendrick and cab rider Willie Thompson to make it the fifth year the contestant on the bicycle won.
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