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It can become a rather intense experience of total submersion; and a fine vehicle for study, should a person trained to look at the world around them as an anthropologist, be thrust into the end of day rush-hour commute home to New Jersey from Penn Station at 33rd St between 8th & 7th Avenues in Manhattan. Mobs of people enter the building at once, amidst transients and awkward tourists, as they run against the grain of each other's mob force like a scene out of 300, trying to get a good seat on the Dover line which is boarding on track 11, while the Secaucus bound riders indiscriminately board any train with SEC displayed, invariably overcrowding an already full train of commuters heading to Princeton or Essex County somewhere. It doesn't help that the Transit Authorities seem to like to keep the waiting area at around 99+ degrees all year round. In fact, when questioned on why the temperature is so uncomfortable year round, Transit officials point to the fact that it is Amtrak owned. Does Amtrak intentionally make the waiting areas for NJTransit trains uncomfortable? This photo, like most in my blog, was taken with my mobile handset. It depicts a rather typical scene for those hoping to catch the 5:45 train home.
