In Search of Express

I took a little tour of the metro system of Brooklyn and Manhattan. This originally started as a search for a station where I could pick up the B train and cut ten minutes off my daily commute to Manhattan. What I ended up doing was touring the stops along the line I have been taking so far, and only finding the elusive B train at the end when I didn't need it anymore. The weirdest stop experience was at Dekalb Avenue at 3pm when the whole station filled up with high school kids waiting for a train home. I think school buses were dropping the kids off and flooding the underground with loud, rambunctious kids, because the came down the stairs in waves. Now, I have been stuck at a station or in a wagon with some very annoying characters, but being stuck at a station with A LOT of annoying characters was not pleasant at all.

On the other hand, though, there was a rather interesting blind guy who came on the train (after the kiddy experience) who sang with some talent for change. He had a kind of little tap dance (with a walking cane!) to go along with it.

I found a route that goes straight from my flat to the stop just next to the school on Wall Street, so I won't have to worry about an hour commute before classes start at 9am. That is the most important discovery of my little underground tour.