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If there’s one certainty about working out of Transit District 1 at Columbus Circle, it’s that agoraphobes, enochlophobes, and demophobes need not apply. Who’s that? You know, people who can’t stand crowds and crowded places. About the only thing not teeming with people within District 1 — either underground or above — is the odd subway staircase step once or twice an hour. Otherwise, all those x-million stories in the Naked City are pretty much to be found within the West Side territory covered by the command. The patrol area — 42nd Street to 86th Street, Fifth Avenue to the Hudson River — offers the first clue.
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The only subway lines not crossing into District 1 for at least a stop or two are the East Side Lexington expresses and local, the Queens-Brooklyn G, and the Franklin Avenue shuttle in Brooklyn. Then you have the hubs at Times Square, Rockefeller Center and Columbus Circle itself where the equivalent populations of entire towns regularly descend on trains. Just sticking to the #1 uptown from Times Square leads to Lincoln Center, followed by 72nd Street, where, even as the MTA was closing down other platform accesses around the city to save money, another street entrance was being built to accommodate the daily commuter mobs. Oh, and did we mention Central Park, which just happens to have a few stations of its own uptown? |
