So, it took 4 of us approximately 40 minutes to decorate an entire car on the F train, including welcome mats, runners, curtains, covering all (32) of the ads, affixing the peel-off pillows to the seats and the vines to the overhead bars, and distributing magazines.
Coney Island at sunrise was a beautiful sight. It took us (the crack assembly team of me, Carol, Nadxi and Elisa, along with two reporters, a photographer, and Don, who was filming) a little while to meet up at Stillwell Avenue, and then all of us went to pee, anticipating the long ride, and already having taken one. On a side note, the only bathroom available was the men's room, which was frightening, but not as bad, Carol pointed out, as the ones that were at CBGB.
Most people seemed either bewildered, amused, or a blend of the two, aside from one exceptionally cranky woman who got on around Avenue U and was pretty interested in it until she was told it wasn't Ok'd by the MTA. All of a sudden, she got really crabby, informing us it was illegal to cover subway ads, and that we could be arrested. When the reporter for New York asked her for a quote, she told him she would 'sue him and his publication' if he were to use her name or image.
When the train was paused a few stops later, I thought we were finished. The photographer from the Post snapped a photograph of a woman cop as the doors opened on the elevated platform.
"What the hell are you doing?" she asked.
"It's perfectly legal to take photos on the subway." He told her (which it is).
That was when the crabby woman informed the lady cop standing on the platform of what we were up to.
"They're covering up the ads!" she called self-righteously from her seat.
All of us, including the reporters, sat there, uncertain, as the cop peered at the woman. We hadn't done much yet, mostly just put up some ads.
"What?" the cop asked.
"I think it's an art project." Don said.
The cop pursed her lips and waved the train on.
"You tattled." Don said to the woman on the train, who turned away.
Pretty soon we finished up, as the train reached the Carroll Gardens area, and more and more people got on the car. Lots of cameras were whipped out. A couple of people thanked us. It was nice.
Metro ran a front-page piece on it this a.m., which can been seen here.
Photos TK. I have had two hours of sleep. Nap time.
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i'm looking forward to the non-official non-nypost photos.
There are some here, at the No Train Like Home blog. I haven't yet had a chance to make my two blog worlds catch up with each other.
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