Riding the Underground Dragon
In some ways, New York City’s subway system is magical. You go underground, zip through dark tunnels, and come up again in a completely different place.
But the trains are no magic carpet. They’re more like bad-tempered dragons. They clank, they screech, they rumble, and sometimes they shoot out sparks. Passengers can get jostled around inside them. But they sure can cover the ground, and the city couldn’t run without them.
Adam of Brooklyn, New York, loves the subways. “I like them so much because I’m interested in maps,” Adam says. He knows all the different train lines, has ridden on many of them, and
