After seeing a photo of a man comfortably lounging on a chair in the middle of a subway car yesterday, another post popped up on Reddit one-upping it by showing a couch on the G train. And as the owner of the couch Ty told us, she and her friend brought it onto the subway on Saturday out of desperation, and with the help of a lot of kindly strangers.
"I had been sleeping on an air mattress in my Bed Stuy apartment for two months (couldn't afford a bed, too much of a crippling fear of bed bugs to get a used bed), and my friend and I went to a prop shop in Gowanus in the hopes that I could find something to sleep on," Ty told us. As luck would have it, the prop shop, Film Biz Recycling, were having a 50% off sale, which is how they came upon this couch (which employees had "affectionately named Carl the Comfy Couch...probably because it's a miraculously ugly couch and needed some talking up") selling for $30.
"So we bought it. And then realized... how the Wii are we going to get back to Bed Stuy?" she said. "So we wheel it down 4th Avenue to the G train. We had to get it through the emergency door, and then carry it up two flights of stairs. Which was brutal. But a lot of really great random people helped us get it up. Then we waited on the G platform (it was a Saturday afternoon and the train was super empty...thank goodness).
http://gothamist.com..._on_the_sub.php
Will sleep in coach when I get the chance.
