Subway

36th Street station on the D line was also the site of a slashing incident in August. Uncredited photo via WPIX TV.

I don't really have anything vital to say about the shooting incident in Brooklyn this morning except to think about how much time I spent in that station, 36th Street at 8th Avenue, when we lived 20 blocks west of there in Brooklyn's Chinatown in the later 90s and it was the best stop for changing between the R local and the D express on the way to and from Manhattan, through the toddlerhoods of two kids, often in an unfolded stroller hung around the handles with plastic bags from shopping, which I had to wangle up and down the stairs (occasionally with the unexpected assistance of some friendly volunteer out of nowhere). It's just such a profoundly ordinary place.

End gun violence, please.