Nick Caverly

Crown Heights, Brooklyn

Subway Rat (dead, alive, or replicated is your call)

Rare is the day when I do not see a rat or two scampering along under the subway tracks. Be it on the C platform at Kingston-Throop, the 4/5/6 at Union Square, or somewhere else entirely, these creatures are endemic to our underground. For the most part rats are able to fade into the background, only causing a stir when one finds its way out of the tracks and onto the platform or into an open subway car door.
Notwithstanding our many notable differences, we human New Yorkers share much in common with the rodents living beneath our streets. We all must be resilient and fight everyday to justify our existence in the city we love and, sometimes, love to hate.