Katie Ett grew up riding tractors and trucks on a farm in Ohio but now rides trains and buses in New York City. For more of Ett's tales from the city, go to unapologeticallymundane.com.
Recently, a friend sent me this series of photos the other day from Singapore's STOMP website. Though it's almost certainly staged, the sentiment is one shared by every hard-working New Yorker who'...
I was going to start a new series today about beautiful things I see from my bus window on my way to and from work. Taking the subway shaves as much as twenty minutes off of my commute...
This morning, a polite young man let me into a packed R train first, even though there was a chance he wasn't going to fit in after me. I flattened myself as much as I could...
My boyfriend and I were in Hell's Kitchen Sunday night, having traveled to the exact opposite side of the island to pour our months of collected pocket change in one of those machines that exchanges it for...
Here's the thing: there's not much I really mind the MTA forcing me to do, but if you're going to force me to do something, just make sure I can actually do it. I...
One of the greatest things about getting on the bus at an early stop after work is that I get a seat exactly always. And one of the greatest things about getting a seat exactly always is having a...
Earlier this week, I told you about the advantages of the single seat behind the driver on the MTA's fleet of new buses. Now let me tell you what happens when everyone realizes those advantages. For...
In the new buses the MTA is rolling out, there’s a special, single seat that only the luckiest person on the bus gets to sit in. The older buses have single seats, sure, but those are in...
23-year-old Maksim Gelman, a four-year resident of Sheepshead Bay, is accused of stabbing his girlfriend, her mother, his stepfather, a subway passenger, and an unfortunate carjacking victim in a day-long spree across Brooklyn and Manhattan. ...
I love New York, but I think of most of the other people who live here as miserable narcissists who put razorblades in their Halloween apples and board up their chimneys come December. So it wasn’t surprising...