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Entries in N/Q train (1)

Wednesday
Jan112012

Riding The N/Q Over The Manhattan Bridge: You Can't Beat That View

Via Erica's Webstagram Page - She has so many great bridge shots!

I only recently discovered the beauty of traveling to Manhattan via the N or the Q -- or any other line besides the dingy, rickety, glacial paced R train, which is conveniently located a stone's throw from my apartment. Hey, I just moved here a few months ago and my trusty Hop Stop app never mentioned any other route. A whole new world opened up to me when I learned the error of my lazy ass ways. The splendor of the N/Q isn't just in the speed and slickness. In the words of Park Slope resident, Randy Kennedy (via the NYT):

"For the price of a ride you’re suspended 135 feet above the city, looking out the windows to the southwest across the mouth of the East River toward the choiring strings of the Brooklyn Bridge and, far beyond, the brilliant oxidized green of the Statue of Liberty. In an illusion created by the perspective of the moving subway car, she appears to be gliding along the deck of the bridge — the world’s most famous hunk of French neo-Classicism, disco skating backward into Manhattan."

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