New York City Subway

Here is a picture from my first trip to New York City and my first experience with the New York City subway system. I will never forget the events leading up to that ride.

It had to be the worst snow storm in New York City history. I’ll admit being from New Orleans that I do not know a lot about snow – hurricanes I do know… but this was just like a scene from the movie, “The Day After Tomorrow”.

We were in New York to meet Doctor Waner, catch the sites and of course a show on Broadway. At the end of our trip when my mother and I where trying to catch our flight back home the weather turned really bad and our flight was cancelled. In fact the entire airport started to shut down due to the bad weather.

There was a dash for transportation by masses of people but even the driving conditions were unbearable with few cabs or buses running.

Just when it looked like we were going to sleep in the airport that night my mom recognized CNN’s anchorwoman Susan Roesgen (a local news reporter from New Orleans at the time) she along with her husband Brandon, were also trying to get home to the Big Easy. Mr. Roesgen is a local photographer for The New Orleans Times-Picayune newspaper but his best attribute that evening, was that he is a native New Yorker.

We teamed up with the Roesgen’s they “knew the roads less traveled” to get us from the airport to a safe hotel and believe me it was no easy task.

With the masses of people going in one direction we followed the Roesgens in the opposite direction pushing against the crowd. Our journey that night was difficult at one point we hiked through Harlem at 11:00pm in a blizzard dragging our luggage behind us finding shelter and transportation in the subway.

That’s were Mr. Roesgen snapped this picture of me.

Finally we arrive at a nice hotel that had just two rooms available…

I never got a chance to thank them but they did send me this picture…

It was an event that I am sure they both remember today.

Thank-you Brandon and Susan Roesgen

Stephen Dale