Trains of the N, W and No. 7 lines screech around curves at all hours on the tracks overhead.
Now and then, a train would rumble across the elevated tracks overhead, momentarily drowning out the sounds of salsa and disco emanating from the boom boxes below.
Howard remembered the storefront lab, the El tracks overhead, the smell of chemicals, and the drugstore next door where his father used to buy him a pistachio ice-cream cone after his visits.
The sculpture was installed in the middle of West Farms Square Plaza, one of the loudest and busiest intersections in the Bronx, where the No. 2 and No. 5 trains shriek on elevated tracks overhead, and city buses click and wheeze and roar at a crowded stop, and ambulance sirens on their way to and from Montefiore Medical Center, just up the street, Doppler by.
The streets were stitched with sunlight and the shadows of the train tracks overhead, the sidewalks crowded with well-heeled and purposeful walkers on their way to work.
On the first night your correspondent visited the track, the overhead wires could not be disconnected in time.
"Our crews will essentially be rebuilding 2,000 feet of damaged track, and overhead wires and signal system," Howard Permut, the president of Metro-North Railroad, said in a statement.
There was a pillow under his knees and a pair of track lights overhead, and he tried to listen to the music.
Still, trains on the New Haven line perform worse than the others, primarily because the cars are holdovers from the 1970s and some of the track uses overhead electrical wires that are nearly a century old and prone to damage.
Dynamic matrix control (DMC) system based on a nonparametric model has been used to track the overhead temperature of the packed distillation column.
