| On our next visit, three years later, on our way by bus to the temple district of Kyoto, a straphanger told me that when he died he would be the Buddha. |
| Gone is the clutter and clunky layout that baffled many a squinting straphanger. |
| The 32-year-old was headed back to Jersey City, where he was staying, when a straphanger took an extra step and fell off the platform. |
| This was not New York, where every straphanger, hot dog vendor and stoop-sitter has extraordinarily specific ideas about what visitors should see and do. |
| As the subway moved from that station to the next, the pigeon, calmly, slowly, confidently, walked to the front of the car, just as any regular straphanger would. |
| With 468 stations to choose from, candidates have their own strategies for finding an ideal place to press the straphanger flesh. |
