I arrived on the platform today, and to my excitement, I thought the transit gods had smiled upon me.

This morning, there is no one on the train! A light crowd on the platform and only a few people standing on the train. There were even open seats!

Then it hit me: today is a Jewish holiday, Rosh Hashanah. I always new that there were a lot of Jews in NYC, but you really don’t notice until a Jewish holiday comes around. All of a sudden, you look up and you are one of 3 gentiles that showed up at work! Everyone else is out for the day.

Hey, I’ll take this any day. I guess if the rest of us need to go to work, a nice consolation prize is a stress free ride to work.

Will the afternoon ride be even less busy? We’ll have to wait and see…

Live from the subway, back to you in studio…