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Plus an interview with a Hamptons train conductor, a Marc Jacobs doc, and more.
Hello everyone. Please wish
, everyone’s favorite Feed Me Hollywood and tech columnist, a happy birthday.Today’s letter includes: my conversation about Hamptons mania with LIRR employees; SKIMS teams up with another sports team; the editor-in-chief who started their own Substack; and midtown uniform slander from my finance guy group text.
Taking the train to and from the Hamptons has increasingly turned into a blood sport. If you haven’t ridden from Montauk to New York on a Sunday afternoon lately, it looks something like this:
Stand on a crowded platform filled with hungover teenagers and businessmen sipping on iced coffee who nervously move back and forth to anticipate where the train will pull up.
Step onto the train and deal with the theatrics of passengers who are already there and want to repel a seatmate. The most common characters: person who fell asleep across two seats the moment they sat down, as if by sleeping potion, and person with mountain of refrigerator-sized luggage on the seat next to them. Close contenders are person with big dog, and person eating a sandwich with mayonnaise and shredded lettuce falling out the sides.
If you don’t get a seat, which many don’t, you endure. You sit on the floor, or on top of your luggage, or on the stairs dividing the levels of the double-decker train.
When that fails, you stand for two and a half hours and disassociate until you get to Penn Station.
Last weekend, I approached a sleeping 60-something man whose seatmate was a Barneys Beverly Hills garment bag. He spent three minutes looking distraught about having to hang his suit on a hook and deal with a human next to him, but eventually we broke the ice: he looked at my knotted headphones and told me that he, too, prefers the wired ones.
I’ve been thinking about interviewing a train conductor on the Montauk line for weeks, and today I did something about it.
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