16 Responses

1. Seriously, forced? If you dont like it close your eyes! If you watch long enough to realize that they actually have some talent, you may actually enjoy the show instead of whining abt it.

   Must be a slow news day YWN…

2. Hillel Engel must not ride the trains often.
   Over the past 16 years that I’ve been commuting by train I have seen this many times.

   Sometimes it’s a whole team of guys putting up a gymnastics show.

3. gosh it must be neat to live in exciting NYC, here in dull Jerusalem we just sit on the bus and schmooze with the guy next to us about the parsha of the week.

4. I wasn’t there, but from here this looks like it was just great entertainment. It’s surprising how uninterested most of the other riders were though.

5. These people have no common courtesy. Who gives them the right to do this on a train and disturb others who dont want to hear that filth rap that they call music?

   People like to relax and read or nap on the train. This distruption is very not right and I hope that it is stopped.

6. Yes, forced. It’s very hard to leave a moving subway train. The music is too loud to ignore. And I won’t close my eyes when they are dancing: one time the guy slammed into me. If I hadn’t been watching, I wouldn’t have been able to duck in time.

7. Most people ignore them since they’ve been doing this every day for years.

   That doesn’t make it less disruptive or rude.

   They should do it on the platform if they must do it at all, so you can walk away or get on the train, not trapped on the train and forced to listen.

8. Now I know why there are footprints on the ceiling of the trains!

9. Welcome to NY. This is what EVERY NYer has put up with for decades. Its part of life in this city. Like paying parking tickets you didnt deserve to get. Or tolerating that smell in Penn Station. Stop complaining. You dont like it, leave NY.

10. I have seen this type of behavior before. I even once saw a man swinging back & forth like a monkey bar on the #5 train which has the type of bars where this type of act can be done & someone thanked him for the entertainment & he told the person to mind her business. I actually find these acts funny.

11. I tolerate these guys more than I do the phone yappers; and you know who YOU are.

12. yea i also was on the train with these characters and I was watching them I wasnt sleeping and they still managed to fall on top of me and kicked me in the feet

13. It is what it is. NYers are used to it. I found this video very entertaining, you can’t argue they aren’t talented!! The loud music I understand can be unpleasant but there have always been performers on the subways and platforms. Personally I would take this over those who walk around yelling and cursing at you if you don’t give them cash.

14. Recently on the F train a group of “entertainers” such as these, boarded at Bergen St station yelled showtime folks, started up their boombox and were about to begin, when an elderly gentelman offered them 20 dollars not to perform.

15. Whoever thinks this is news obviously doesn’t ride the NYC subways.
    This and worse has been going on since the first subway car pulled into the first station.
    You have people preaching out loud at the top of their lungs, panhandling, which this dancer is doing, multi-piece bands, etc.
    The publisher of “theyeshivaworld” obviously rarely if ever rides the subways or this piece would have been put up as news!

16. may be its not that bad…considering what these ”dancers” could be doing in their free time (which as we know is pretty much 24h) if Hashem did not
    “pre occupy” them with learning the moves. We don’t have to like it, but we don’t have to be disturbed either. Just think. There is a reason for these “performances”. The real one. So I say let them dance. Who knows how many people got home safe because the dancers were busy dancing.