• Published in: amNew York

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.

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