What If Your Train Stop Was A Garden?

If this isn’t anywhere near the look of your latest commute you might ask yourself why.

Do we have to be in a forest to see a tree? I’ve been riding New York transit most of my life and the lack of imagination, level of dirt, noise pollution and ugliness is legion. Not just on the train but over, around and under it as well. There is nothing more depressing than the dark, restricted life of commerce under the “ell”. It helps generate hyper-inflated commercial tax revenue for the city - but for whose benefit? Certainly the commercial tax gain is not pouring back into the neighborhood. But mass transit is expensive, you say! Well so is everything. How about making the local neighborhood more livable instead of subsidizing the rush to an ever hungrier city center where it’s a nice place to work, but nobody with a job could afford to live there.