Coney Island-Stillwell Av — Local services in New York

Duck this station. I would love to meet the genius behind the train schedules. Honestly, are they just sitting in an office somewhere thinking, “How can we mess with people today?” Train Q rolls in, and — I kid you not — Train N pulls out literally 10 seconds later. It’s like a synchronized dance of inconvenience. Same ridiculous timing in the other direction too.

You can see crowds of people desperately sprinting up the stairs like it’s the Olympics, just to miss the transfer by seconds. Every. Single. Time. And what’s the reward? A nice relaxing 10 to 20-minute wait for the next train, depending on the time of day. Pure efficiency, right?

It honestly feels like a social experiment. “Let’s see how many people we can frustrate before 9 AM.” Whoever designed this schedule either hates commuters or has never taken public transportation in their life. Either way — mission...

All the good reviews are from people who are not locals who do not use this method of transportation on a daily basis. I’m literally sitting on the N train that is stuck in the train yard which is basically the field right before you get to the last stop for 30 minutes. The reason is always train traffic or signal issues or whatever the MTA can pull out of their anus. This happens with any train line here, N D Q or F. And no they are not handicapped friendly. If you need to get on the D train with a stroller, heavy cart, or wheelchair, you have to walk in the Q platform, walk to the end of it, get on an elevator, to walk across this bridge ( walking pass the N and the F, to get in the elevator, to go back down to then tech the D train. The workers are...

In the good olden days (which were not so good and nor so olden) as a matter of procedure you were gang-shanked the moment you stepped off the train onto this platform. Nowadays people frown on that type of greeting... so you are more likely to be met with a rush of stony-faced commuters who are wondering how the MTA will dump-hole their lives that day. Weather permitting, buskers perform at this station, which is a nice break from having nothing to which to listen besides other people's intimate cellphone conversations. The physical installations are also well maintained at present, with digital screens displaying how the MTA is delaying and re-routing its commuters on any given day (some things will...