<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/33eca8fa-93d2-4e8b-9460-b56cc3ebcde5/616BC1E2-B595-435B-8489-6983647DAEDE/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://grimvale.blogspot.com/2009/06/new-york-city-straphanger-meaning.html" href="http://grimvale.blogspot.com/2009/06/new-york-city-straphanger-meaning.html" style="font-size: 11px;">grimvale.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://grimvale.blogspot.com/2009/06/new-york-city-straphanger-meaning.html"><H3 class="post-title entry-title"> <A href="http://grimvale.blogspot.com/2009/06/new-york-city-straphanger-meaning.html">New York StrapHanger Origin Video at NYC Transit Museum</A> </H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://grimvale.blogspot.com/2009/06/new-york-city-straphanger-meaning.html"><DIV> Last month, on a lazy Sunday afternoon, we went to the <A href="http://www.mta.info/mta/museum/">New York City Transit Museum</A> in Brooklyn New York on the corner of Boerum Place and Schermerhorn Street. I've always wondered why they refer to New York City subway riders as strap hangers and after my visit to the NY transit museum, I found out why. Check out the video below of the author, Dallas Plummer by his videographer, Dean Lewis, as he shows the origin of the term New York Straphanger.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://grimvale.blogspot.com/2009/06/new-york-city-straphanger-meaning.html"></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://grimvale.blogspot.com/2009/06/new-york-city-straphanger-meaning.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/grimvale.blogspot.com/img/6B8BB941-763C-481A-90E3-4DA837DB22AF" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://grimvale.blogspot.com/2009/06/new-york-city-straphanger-meaning.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/grimvale.blogspot.com/img/07474B2B-6E44-4537-8913-6018F13ADE46" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://grimvale.blogspot.com/2009/06/new-york-city-straphanger-meaning.html"></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://grimvale.blogspot.com/2009/06/new-york-city-straphanger-meaning.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/grimvale.blogspot.com/img/B778F2F1-F6B8-4173-A66C-AC315A4CB1FC" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://grimvale.blogspot.com/2009/06/new-york-city-straphanger-meaning.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/grimvale.blogspot.com/img/C786D30B-16E8-4AFA-8DDF-17CEF17F6733" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://grimvale.blogspot.com/2009/06/new-york-city-straphanger-meaning.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/grimvale.blogspot.com/img/47129772-E50F-4906-B4E3-54FD061DB59F" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://grimvale.blogspot.com/2009/06/new-york-city-straphanger-meaning.html"><DIV>This is a smiling New York personal trainer Dean Lewis(he was just told where we were gonna eat after) in front of a circa 1950 subway car with the old New York City Transit Authority logo.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/616BC1E2-B595-435B-8489-6983647DAEDE/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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