The Perishable Dream of New York City
In 1904, the New York subway, built in an effort to connect all the boroughs of the city apart from Staten Island, opened its doors to thousands of passengers. From the Bronx to Brooklyn and from Manhattan to the Queens, the subway connected the people of New York. The diversity in ethnicity, riches and culture of the city could be observed by sitting in a subway cart for no longer than twenty minutes. On the surface of the automatic doors, you will read something along the lines of “do not lean against the doors” written in English, French, Creole and Spanish. If you turn your head to one side of the cart you will observe the businessman who sits on the colorful orange benches, legs crossed, and eyes locked in on his newspaper. If you turn towards the other side, you will see the homeless man who sleeps, his whole body spread out on the benches.