Photos by Stacie Joy
We've seen a few social media reports in recent days of cashless Coca-Cola vending machines arriving at subway stations... and lo and behold, there's now one in the First Avenue entrance of the Second Avenue F stop...
... so you have your choice of sodas and various snacks (thankfully, no option for Funyuns — no fun for enclosed train cars)...
Two years ago to the day, we read in Crain's about the MTA's desire to have "the vending machines in place of empty retail spaces" to "add a bit more liveliness to the system" ... not to mention revenue.
No chicklets?
ReplyDeleteWe would have to time travel to the 90's. LOL
DeleteNo Chowards Violets or Halva either.
DeleteI see as Another surface for the lawless ones to vandalize
ReplyDeleteThis will get thrashed!
ReplyDeleteI was thinking the same thing that these would get trashed or vandalized quickly. Either because people are hungry and homeless Or just because some people are prone to criminal activity.
ReplyDeleteThey were built to be unbreakable. No one is getting into these.
DeleteWould much prefer if they finally put digital countdown "next train" signage above the north entrance at 1st St. & 1st Ave., like they do for most stations by now.
ReplyDeleteGreat idea - bring food into the subway experience. Not enough rats down there, I guess.
ReplyDeleteOooh. That's so much better than constructing passageways under the Avenue, leading to entrance stairs on the East side of First ave.
ReplyDeletenow I can just buy a Coke while I stand in line with all the other commuters waiting to climb out of that single-file width staircase
Fun fact, Funyuns contain no actual onions. But I still like them.
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