Once again, we bring you another installation of "bloggers who have way more time on their hands than we do." And today, we discover graphpaper.com, a blog by some artist/teacher/designer type guy who rides the subway. We don't know which subway it is that he rides, but he decided to lay out a detailed description of the cities subway commuters.
For those of you who don't drive a subway car, live in a subway car, or nanny, you may find this information useful, informative … or at least mildly amusing.
3:00-4:00 AM
Drunks of all sorts, club kids, and winos. Late night workers, busboys, getting off their shifts. Only a handful of people per car. 6:1 male/female ratio.
4:00-5:00 AM
Transit workers changing shifts. Maybe 6 people per car. All male.
5:00 AM - 6:00 AM
Blue-collar laborers, minorities, immigrants. Half the car is asleep. Maybe 20 or 25 people per car. 9:1 male/female ratio.
6:00 AM - 7:00 AM
Construction workers, blue-collar laborers, hospital workers. 75% of seats in car are taken. 7:3 male/female ratio.
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM
Low-level office workers, civil service workers, some Wall Street broker types. Mostly minorities, lots of black women, lots of all kinds of women in fact. 90% seats occupied. 1:2 male/female ratio.
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Professionals, white collar workers, office workers. 100% seats occupied, many people standing. 1:1 male/female ratio.
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Early-career yuppies running a little late, creative industry workers, all sorts of professionals. 100% occupied. 1:1 male/female ratio.
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Hung over office workers, some seats available. 2:1 male/female ratio.
11:00 AM - noon
Starting to see people who are running errands for work, not just going to or coming from work. Plenty of open seats. 3:2 male/female ratio.
So, either women aren't leaving their houses, they're taking cabs, or, they travel more frequently between the hours of 12:00 pm and 3:00 am. Yeah, we bet he would of found tons of cocktail waitresses on the N train right around 3:30.
Morning Subway Demographics [Graphpaper via Gothamist]
Editorial Director
Are the "minorities" on trains in NYC non-Jewish whites?
Hey, that's not fair. Women are very solidly represented during the 7-8 am timeframe, where they make up a huge majority (at least on the F train, which is my ride). At most other early early AM timeslots, men are the majority - the majority of what amounts to nearly-empty cars, mind you. There are far, far more women in the 7-8 timeframe than there are any people at all between 3am and 7am.
And w/r/t "too much time on my hands", look who's talking Ms/Mr Celebrity Blogger! :-)