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Felix loves the subway. I don't think he's an unusual kid for having this passion. There is, apparently a long history of subway obsessed preschoolers. I'm more interested that I've joined this cabal of Gotham's parents who need to contend with this obsession. Many years ago I marveled that a friend of a friend could be moved to exert herself so far as to make a "Metrocard" sheet cake for her four year-old. Now it seems like she got off easy.
In the New York Times yesterday (apparently, I only spotted this today) one of the staff artists composed a little illustrated story based on his children's passion for New York City Transit. (Actually, his kids seem mostly subway-focused. Felix is also quite interested in bus routes.)
I suspect Mr. Niemann is only mildly joking that he and his wife had to pick a name for their third son so that his first initial would be able to represent one of the letter-named subway lines in the city. He had the A (Arthur) and the G (Gustav) lines covered and finally settled on the F (Fritz), which neatly also brings no overlap of subway route colors on the map, which would no doubt cause ridiculous competition (one boy would surely feel he had been named for the express line and in the "naming is destiny" philosophy that baby books like to kick around, would surely always believe he was pressured to be faster than his sibling).
I don't have the time to spend four hours at the transit museum and I don't have the luxury of letting trains (and buses) go by as we wait for Felix's favorite train to show up (he prefers the 2 but if the 3 comes first I'll risk the argument).
Here is where I will cave to the lure of New York City Transit:
I will listen to Felix reciting train routes over and over and over again.
I will ask at every station booth for extra maps even though we have some ratty ones at home.
I will read this New York Times piece to Felix four times in exchange for him letting me put sunscreen on him.
I suspect I'll be getting him an 7 train t-shirt soon, after he got to ride above ground last weekend.
posted by Elise at 6:27 AM
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