BUS RIDE

We ride the bus quite a bit.  It is our way to get to our health care at Weill Cornell and Hospital for Special Surgeries.  We board the bus on 32nd street between 6th and 7th Avenues.  The M4 bus is there primarily to pickup passengers getting off the trains in Penn Station from the Long Island Railroad, the New Jersey Transit System, and Amtrak.  Our stop is the beginning of the line and we get the seats of our choice.  The bus travels eastward down 32nd to Madison Avenue and then goes north toward destinations such as Weill Cornell, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the new Met Breuer.

On occasions when we are at the southern tip of the island we ride the M5 that moves up the island along 6th Avenue.  It's slower than the subway but a different and better experience.

The bus, by nature, draws a different clientele.  People who cannot go down and climb back up the steps of the subway system ride the bus.  Many of our most interesting "New York Moments" have occurred while riding the bus.  Old people on phones, old people in general, people who are mentally and physically challenged, "rich" people who will not go down into the bowels of the subway system, and others ride the bus.

I took pictures this morning because we had a completely empty bus to ourselves (for a moment).