So I just made this collage from my cell phone pics...I don't have Photoshop so I made it with Paint...that's why it looks a little sketchy...sorry...

Some of the buskers here are students from the Julliard School, some have played in the Carnegie Hall, while some (or for the most part) are just scrambling for their rent. I used to try to record the music that I heard in the subway, but every now and then the music was inundated by the shrills and rumbles of the train, or simply the bustles of travelers helter-skeltering through the mezzanine.

Thomas likes to brag about how the buskers in London or other big cities in Europe play mostly classical music, while in New York sometimes you can hardly tell the name of an instrument. I guess the subway is the best way to learn about the city, both geographically and ethnographically - you get to listen to live ethnic music and step on ethnic toes (politically incorrect!? i dont care). It is not until when I got to Chicago did I realize how diversity has been taken for granted in New York...not until on the CTA train when a semi-sober-white-college-student-looking guy greeted Thomas and I with "Welcome to the United States!"...Alas, I guess I am already too jaded to live here!