It carried Ernest Rivera, 28, an unemployed father of three from Brooklyn. It carried Gunther, a fluffy white puppy named by a Manhattan couple for the character on the television series Friends. It carried a middle-age woman with a tattoo on her chest, a man holding a surfboard and another man who remembered to wear his A train T-shirt.
Rudy Worrell, 54, knelt on the floor and played his duct-taped keyboard and flute, apologizing to passengers for the disruption. Worrell remembered taking the A train as a boy, to play hooky from school. Years later, he would return to the A, unemployed and homeless, playing his music aboard it for small-dollar donations.
"This is my bread and butter," he said as the train rumbled along. "Ain't nothing like the A train."
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