Comments on: New York Minute

By: Raf

Raf — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 17:47:50 +0000

[5] I liked the station announcements on the JR Yamanote Line, usually followed by a tune before the doors closed.

By: Boatzilla

Boatzilla — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 14:40:15 +0000

Great post, John.

In Tokyo there all several brands of “live” train and bus announcers/drivers: The pinched nose effeminate (sorry no women drivers out here), the low-voiced garbled slurring drunk (sounding), the over conscientious one who scolds passengers and announces everything. Unfortunately, the longer JR lines and bullet trains have gone to recordings and it’s always a lady’s voice with a British accent.

By: Chyll Will

Chyll Will — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 00:45:22 +0000

[3] – Naked Cowboy, Times Square 2002

By: weeping for brunnhilde

weeping for brunnhilde — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 23:09:10 +0000

And that, in brief, is why there’s only one New York.

By: Alex Belth

Alex Belth — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 22:54:45 +0000

There’s a dude that was on the F Train when I lived out in Brooklyn who sounded like an Indian guy doing Inspector Clouseau with a Yiddish accent.

By: Matt Blankman

Matt Blankman — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 22:44:46 +0000

Years ago, in my adolescence, there was a LIRR conductor on the Port Washington line who would announce the station stops in a WC Fields voice. I miss that.