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THE CLUB — Imagine you’re heading to the subway in New York City.
Since you never know what you will encounter in the subway, you may begin brace yourself for the pungent smells and random yelling, or you may be looking forward to the above-average game of people watching or the chance encounter with a skillful busker.
Or maybe you’re just gearing up to avoid eye contact with anyone and everyone to be in line with the unspoken rules of subway etiquette.
But what you probably wouldn’t expect is a bassline banging through a subway car as you step through a velvet rope into the flashing lights of a mini club where you and all the average citizens are the VIPs.
It’s an underground, underground club, if you will.
In this dance party video, some of the riders look wary or don’t participate, many of the riders really get into the groove and interact with their fellow citizens. I found myself grinning from ear to ear watching them have the time of their life as they take the F train to Funkytown. (No, I’m not sorry for that ridiculous end to that sentence.)
That’s just what the video creator wanted — more human interaction. And this is the not the first time the man behind AMK Productions, Meir Kalmanson, has made videos trying to get New Yorkers to make more interactions. In fact, you may remember him as the man who gave unexpected high fives to people who are hailing cabs in the Big Apple.
Whatever you think of Kalmanson’s mission or the video, just remember that there ain’t no party like a subway party, because a subway party never stops, especially in the city that never sleeps.
