My high school skip buddy and I would eat here about once a week. We had the following phone convo at one point:
Him: I’ll just pick up Subway and be over.
Me: Do you know my order?
Him: “Ham and Cheese on wheat, mayo, lettuce, pickles, and green peppers…more green peppers, please, a few more, thanks.”
Me: (laughing) yea, that’s it…
I hadn’t realised that I say the same thing every time. (A few more peppers…getting closer…just another handful…okay, two handfuls…that’s good enough…) I prefer peppers to lettuce and think that there should be equal parts bread and peppers. The meat, cheese, lettuce and mayo are added to taste.
BMT was one of the three original transit companies in NYC before the city bought them out and began operating them under the MTA (Metroplitan Transit Authority) banner.
The three companies were:
Inter-borough Rapid Transit, or IRT. All the trains that currently have numbers were IRT trains. IRT trains are differently sized than IND/BMT trains and cannot share track.
Independent Subway System, or IND. Former IND lines include the F,D,Q,B Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit or BMT. Former BMT lines include the N, R and L trains.
I assure you that Boston had no part in the naming of the BMT. Since New Yorkers hate for anything to change, they will often still refer to the subway lines by their old company names (East side IRT local= the 6)
You know, I always wondered why the hell it would have the name Boston in it. My answer: it didn’t. Solves that mystery for me. I guess I heard wrong or was told wrong. Not as wrong as rastahomie, apparently, but still wrong.
