“L” is For Love Train
By Erin O'Neill | April 29th, 2008 | | 
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TRACKING ROMANCE: The Bedford Avenue stop on the L train sparked more "missed connections" postings than any station servicing a single line.
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A world seethes beneath New York where love-seeking straphangers interact with stolen glances between jostling bodies.
Those who enter that world at the L train’s Bedford Avenue stop in Brooklyn take to the Internet more often than riders on any other line to turn furtive eye contact into trysts.
In romance fever’s high-season— the two weeks before and after Valentine’s Day — 421 men and women posted to the “missed connections” thread on craigslist.org hoping to connect with a stranger they chatted with or made eye contact with underground.
(To see maps of the missed connections, click here.)
The Bedford Avenue stop sparked 16 of those postings — the most for any station servicing a single line.
I wouldn’t call it love exactly…
Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.