Friday 13, Subway Calliope Dance
After a long week of work I entered the uptown 1 local stop at 50th and Broadway. As I went through the turnstile I could hear a carnival like sound coming from somewhere inside the waiting area around the tracks. I looked around and saw an old middle eastern man with flowing white hair and a big smile playing on a Casio keyboard. He had on a light colored suit and seemed to enjoy playing this calliope like music. Its common to see people playing music in the subway for change. There was something unusual and interesting about this music. I've noticed a personal trend that I seem to enjoy music with a calliope or carnival like feeling to it for some reason.
As I listened for a bit waiting for the train, I saw a black man doing the Harlem Shake to this music. He was very uninhibited and was very inebriated as I would later find out. There was something about this scene that made me feel very glad to be in this city. I could not help but stand there with a big grin on my face. There was something perfect about the combination of the keyboard player's happy tune with the other man bouncing around wildly to it.