While we're on the subject, I gotta share this story from one late summer night a few years back.
I was on the L train platform waiting to go from 1st Ave in the City into Brooklyn where I was living at the time. It was maybe 1:30 a.m, not even that late. The electronic display kept showing outrageous times for the next train to arrive. Something like 45 mins, and then when it got closer to zero it would boost up back another 15 mins. Classic NYC trains at night bullshyt with some extra exaggeration , yet I decided to just wait it out while my boys took a cab into Brooklyn.
As it was the weekend, there were a lot of people still waiting for the Brooklyn bound train despite the late hours. After more than an hour and change, a train pulled in on the platform where trains entering Manhattan arrive, and the announcer stated that due to some issues, that train was now being rerouted back into Brooklyn.
For those of you who don't know, this particular subway station is the type where there is no underground tunnel to connect opposing directions of the same train line. You have to make sure you're swiping in to the correct destination bound platform or else you gotta walk out and cross the street, wasting a swipe.
Anyway, after hearing that announcement, everybody on the entire platform I was on bull rushed outside that side of the platform, up the stairs, onto the streets and ran across 1st avenue. Everyone jumped the turnstiles / ran through the emergency door, on some old school NYC shyt in order to catch that train.
That was easily one of my most memorable experiences on the subway ever. Kinda made the obnoxious wait time worth it.