One man hit what appeared to be a crack pipe on a downtown No. 3 train and stripped off his clothes. A second man on the subway car was asleep. And a third appeared to be recording the bizarre scene on his cell phone for a viral video.
It was just another day on the rails, captured in photos obtained exclusively by the Daily News.
“I have been to a lot of pretty rough places and have lived in New York City for more than 10 years, but I’ve never seen anything like this,” photographer Ben Lozovsky, 33, told The News Wednesday.
Lozovsky was on the train from 125th St. to 96th St. beginning around 1:40 a.m. Sunday when the glassy-eyed stranger plunked down a few seats away from him. A few minutes later, the shirtless straphanger pulled out his pipe and began smoking. – READ MORE
