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News Release – June 16, 2010•
MORGAN AVENUE NAMED“NEW YORK’S MOST ROMANTIC SUBWAY STATION”
•Morgan Avenue Station on the 14
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Street – Canarsie Line (L train) has beennamed New York’s “Most Romantic Subway Station”, by a month-long study of nearly 500 Missed Connections posts on craigslist New York.The analysis, conducted by craigslist itself, also names the 14
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Street –Canarsie Line (L train) as New York’s “Most Romantic Subway Line” – definedas the one offering the best odds of a fellow passenger falling for you across acrowded car or platform, and then posting a “Missed Connections” ad oncraigslist in search of you.Such odds are far greater at Morgan Avenue, where love is in the air, than at theLexington Avenue/59
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Street Station New York’s “Least Romantic Station.”Indeed, they are
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greater, since the latter is proven by the study to be aromance-free zone, after registering a grand total of zero Missed Connectionsposts during the month-long study, despite welcoming over 20 million riders ayear.The findings come from an analysis of ads posted over the period of a recentmonth by Subway-users in the “Missed Connections” section of craigslist NewYork. The ads studied were posted by those who had fallen for a fellow traveler,without getting their contact details, and used craigslist to try and find them.Morgan Avenue emerged as the station with the most Missed Connectionsmentions per passenger using the station – or, as the study’s compilers call it,the highest “TRIST” (short for “
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otal) , or “RomanceScore”.Morgan Avenue notched a TRIST score of 24.03. The second most romanticstation was Broadway Station, with a Romance or TRIST score of 19.34, whilethird was Graham Avenue Station with a score of 14.67.At the other end of the romance scale, Lexington Avenue/59
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Street Station onthe Broadway Line (N, R, Q, W trains), managed a Romance or TRIST score of 0, due to getting zero mentions in Missed Connections during the study period,despite an annual ridership of 20,053,574.
Many of the Missed Connections ads are almost achingly poignant, whileothers, as The New York Times has pointed out, amount to a form of “foundpoetry”.The 14
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Street - Union Square Station got more mentions overall than any other station but notched only the tenth-highest TRIST score, due to its far larger totalnumber of passengers. The 59
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Avenue Station notched the second largestnumber of mentions but did not even make it into the top ten in the MissedConnections-post-per-passenger table.•
Giving Love A Second Chance
But aren’t the odds of finding anyone through a Missed Connections ad prettylong? Yes, concedes Jim Buckmaster, craigslist CEO and the man who addedthe Missed Connections category to the site, but the success rate is still higher than you might think. "Maybe in most cases, it’s the friends and associates of the person sought that see the posting and bring it to their attention.”What Craigslist really offers, says Buckmaster, is hope. "People really do valuelong shots. The idea of a getting a second chance, however small, is verypowerful.”As for the result of the new craigslist study. “There must be something in the air at Morgan Avenue station”, suggests Buckmaster. “And something absent fromthe air of Lexington Avenue/59
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Street station.”
•10 MOST ROMANTIC NEW YORK SUBWAY STATIONS:Subway Station “Romance Score”
Morgan Avenue 24.029Broadway 19.367Graham Avenue 14.664Lorimer Street 13.048Jefferson Street 12.745Nassau Avenue. 12.545City Hall . 12.487
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/Seventh Avenue 11.344Bedford Avenue 10.76214
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Street-UnionSquare10.128
• METHODOLOGY FOR CALCULATING THE “ROMANCE SCORE”
The “Romance Score”, also known as the “TRIST” (short for “
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•EXAMPLES OF MISSED CONNECTIONS POSTINGS ON CRAIGSLIST• Black suit, black hair, sideburns on the C train
You got on the Manhattan-bound C train somewhere in Brooklyn around 8:35 this morning. I was wearing a striped dress and a navy blue sweater, and wekept sneaking looks at each other until I got out at Broadway-Nassau. I brushed your arm (yes, intentionally) on my way out of the train. Want to get adrink sometime?
• Carrot top on the downtown Q train, 8:40am
You were the ghostly pale girl with the brightest red hair I have ever seen. I wasthe very tired looking guy in the orange button down and green messenger bag. Just wanted you to know that you brightened up my (otherwise super boring) day.
• Doe eyed girl on J train today 11:11 am
We had something years ago and seeing you today reminded me that you areall I’ve ever wanted. Contact me please! Come on, what will it hurt.
• Mets fan on the G train with white hat and white bandana
I’d win in any fight … want to wrestle?
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