By the time the train hit the next few stops in Long Island City, a shift in population that had started subtly back in Jackson Heights was becoming more obvious.
And we do not refer to the sight of the Manhattan skyline from the first few stops in Queens, though that view is worthy of a postcard.
Take the stairs instead of the elevator, get off the bus a few stops earlier and walk the rest of the way to work, or add walking time to your lunch hour.
It could be the nudge you need, for example, to get off the subway a few stops early and walk the rest of the way home, or to jog a few extra laps around the track.
And so I jumped off the bus a few stops before the crowd, and headed for one of my favorite streets in Bangkok, and in the world for that matter: Phra Athit Road.
The well-to-do, and the famous, tend to get off the train a few stops earlier.
It blamed "soft-on-thug" measures like the easing of the Rockefeller drug laws, fewer police on the streets, and fewer stops and frisks.
From there we take the subway a few stops to Red Hook, where the folk-singing Berger Sisters are playing at the Jalopy Theater.
I hopped on the train a few stops in order to cross the threshold of modernism's uber-monument, the Barcelona Pavilion and soon after marveled at its opposite, the wondrously curvy Casa Batlló of Gaudi.
