147- Penn Station Sucks
99% Invisible
SiriusXM Podcasts and Roman Mars
4.8 • 27.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2015
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is 99% Invisible. |
| 0:02.6 | I'm Roman Mars. |
| 0:06.3 | New Yorkers are known to disagree about a lot of things. |
| 0:09.2 | Who's got the best pizza? |
| 0:10.6 | What's the fastest subway route? |
| 0:12.6 | Yankees or Mets? |
| 0:14.0 | But I would bet that if you pulled every New Yorker, all 8,500,000 of them, they would |
| 0:20.1 | agree on one thing. |
| 0:23.0 | Penn Station sucks! |
| 0:25.3 | That's Ann Hepperman, our friend and reporter in New York who also hates Penn Station. |
| 0:30.0 | There is nothing joyful about Penn Station. |
| 0:33.0 | It's windowless, airless, crowded, 650,000 people have to suffer through it on their daily |
| 0:40.4 | commute. |
| 0:41.4 | That's more traffic than the region's three airports combined. |
| 0:45.4 | Luckily though, I'm not one of them. |
| 0:48.6 | We're in Penn Station now. |
| 0:50.7 | We tagged along with our unlucky friend Jonathan Minhevar. |
| 0:53.8 | He's a producer for this American life and commutes from his home in Jersey to Penn Station. |
| 0:59.1 | His experience of Penn Station is like being at a Black Friday sale at Walmart every |
| 1:04.4 | day, always. |
| 1:06.0 | Like the whole time people are pushing you, squeezing through a tiny stairway to get down |
| 1:10.5 | to the tracks. |
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