@Mark Boyce posted:Ted, I thought the same thing, everything looks so pristine, not like in the movies.
As someone who has been to pretty much every stop on every line in the past year at all hours w/ 1000s of dollars worth of camera gear on me for an upcoming book I'm doing on the subway ( comes out in the spring!). I can tell you that there were only a handful of times that I felt unsafe or was concerned. There were certain areas I went to where I was more alert than others, but overall I never felt in danger. As someone who grew up in NYC, maybe I was more aware of what to look for and how to avoid it. Is there crime, yes. That's the reality of any big city. For the most part, the trains are clean, as are the stations and people will generally leave you alone. Like I said, having grown up there, the system is a lot safer than when I was a kid in the 80s. I think it just gets a bad rap in the media and unfortunately, incidents will always make the news, which give people not familiar with it a doom & gloom view of the subway & city as a whole. I travel with my kids on the subway every time we head into the city and never have problems. Just my observations
