Sights of the City – Break Dancing on a Moving Subway


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Three guys walked into the subway car at a stop somewhere between Brooklyn and Manhattan. When the doors closed and the car began to move a small stereo that began to play a background hip-hop song. The music was barely audible over the noisy car clacking and screeching along the tracks.When one of the guys began to speak I thought to myself, “This is going to be annoying”. Then he began to break dance in a small open area. It wasn’t all that spectacular and by the time the second guy started his routine I was busy fiddling with my camera phone which was only irritating me further because it wasn’t loading the camera software correctly.

At the moment I gave up on the camera and looked up the dancer did a complete 360deg flip in the air – head over heals. I didn’t see anyone else react but it was an amazing feat because of the physical constraints and the moving car. That daring move made the whole performance amazingly memorable.

Oddly enough I believe this is the same line where the subway violinist made an appearance.