After a week in New York catching up with friends, going to concerts (yay, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Jonathan Nott, the Bamberg Symphony; St. Vincent; the Berlin Staatskapelle and Daniel Barenboim; and the International Contemporary Ensemble and Corey Dargel), museums (yay, Met; Frick Collection; Morgan Library; and Neue Galerie), and walking all over Central and Prospect Parks, a bit of public transportation-themed humor seems welcome.
Apparently, the San Francisco MTA would rather you didn’t lose yourself in the sumptuosity and sonic largesse of a 19th-century Austrian. And while I don’t have any hard and fast evidence to prove it, I’d guess that your average female Asian professional with Beethoven on her mp3 device would probably be the last person to step in front of a train. (As Woody Allen said in Annie Hall: “Right, I’m a bigot, I know, but for the left.”) Still, PSAs are good for everyone.
Forthwith, a screenshot from the San Francisco-based AT:
