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The trackworkers who toil in the city’s subway tunnels call their workplace “the hole.” It’s a dank and dark and unsettling place. Bloated rats float in puddles of muck. The stench of garbage and urine and exhaust permeates the air. It’s either eerily silent or filled with the brain-rattling noise of trains blasting their horns as they barrel by. There’s so much steel dust swirling around that when you blow your nose your snot is black. On summer days, the temperature regularly exceeds 100 degrees; in the winter, it’s below freezing. Lost pets and homeless drug addicts occasionally stagger by, and every so often the cops chase a perp onto the tracks. Other than that, the only inhabitants are the workers and the rats and the ghosts of all the people who have died down here.


Last year, 58 people lost their lives on the city’s subway tracks—an average of more than one a week. Most were “jumpers,” people who decided to commit suicide-by-train. Other typical scenarios include intoxicated passengers who topple onto the rails, homeless people living underground, riders who slip while urinating between cars, teenagers who try to “surf” on top of the train, and commuters who accidentally fall (or, very rarely, are pushed) off the platform just as the subway pulls in. Nine more people perished in the first three months of this year, and then, in early April, two men died within two days of each other: The E train ran over a 21-year-old who’d stumbled onto the tracks, and a C train hit a 67-year-old after he wandered into a tunnel.

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ORIGINAL: Aileen1968

There's nothing in the world like the piss smell of a NYC subway.
Almost as good as their dirty water hotdogs. 

For some reason, the dirty water hotdogs sounds worse....

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ORIGINAL: Level

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ORIGINAL: Aileen1968

There's nothing in the world like the piss smell of a NYC subway.
Almost as good as their dirty water hotdogs. 

For some reason, the dirty water hotdogs sounds worse....

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ORIGINAL: Aileen1968

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ORIGINAL: Level

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ORIGINAL: Aileen1968

There's nothing in the world like the piss smell of a NYC subway.
Almost as good as their dirty water hotdogs. 

For some reason, the dirty water hotdogs sounds worse....

Heh heh...actually, they're not bad.  I get one every time I'm in the city.  It's a tradition.

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They're just New York-style boiled hot dogs, served with mustard, sauerkraut, minced onions in tomato sauce, or relish. The water's not really dirty; it's just cloudy because of all the hot dogs cooked in it.

I found that, on the dogs.  Do they have any wrapped in bacon??

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ORIGINAL: christine1

that's what i was thinking....i've always heard the "dogs"  in NYC are great...now i'm thinking, not so much.  geesh, what's my reason for ever visiting there now?

christine, I very much want to go to NYC. Museums, shopping, Central Park, and the warm family atmosphere are what I want to see.....

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ORIGINAL: Aileen1968

If you visit NYC and don't contact me.........

You have my word, you'll  know  I'd be honored to meet you.

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ORIGINAL: GreedyTop

NYC hot dogs are the BEST!!  

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ORIGINAL: GreedyTop

NYC hot dogs are the BEST!!  

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ORIGINAL: GreedyTop

ack..no sauerkraut..  mustard, mayo and onions

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ORIGINAL: GreedyTop

WAIT! last I checked, my name was still in red!

(if it helps, I do like the DQ Slaw Dogs)

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teenagers who try to “surf” on top of the train