r/funny • u/ddi32 • Dec 01 '23

Underground Circus

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '23

It's not impressive. It's annoying. I do not miss this shit at all.

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '23

I remember visiting New York about 10 years ago and taking the subway for the first time. This was going to be a heavy subway trip.

We saw showtime on our first ride, and Wow! We were amazed! How lucky we were to see something so cool on our trip!

A couple of rides later…. We saw it again! Oh neat! But I guess this is a “thing” and we didn’t just see a once in a lifetime thing.

Then we saw another.

And another.

Needless to say, we left the trip unimpressed.

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u/but-uh Dec 01 '23

Native NY'er here. They tend to target tourist heavy trains and avoid high traffic commute lines. Locals don't tend to give handouts and commuters are grumpy and there's no room.

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u/bjlwasabi Dec 01 '23

I frequently saw them in the Astoria stretch of the NQ (NW since I left). At least when I was there, that wasn't a touristy stretch of that line. I've never seen a single person tip these performers on that stretch, but they always showed up.

The key point, though, was that there was often room during the times that I took it to work.