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Traveling in Style

Instagram user @_issa_bomb shared a video of the man who probably had the most comfortable seat on the entire New York City subway system: a leather couch. And he had earned his comfort, not only bringing it onto the train himself, but, according to Reddit user AlterdCarbon, hauling it down the street. “That thing resting on the couch beside him is either a folded up wheelchair or walker, I couldn’t tell, but he had the couch ... BALANCED on it on the back bottom edge, and was wheeling it down the sidewalk swearing loudly and jumping from one end to the other as it kept starting to tip off the tiny wheelchair thing.” However, they may be two different couches: another Instagram user recorded a man putting a couch on the train at Union Square, but the Reddit user saw his couch near 23rd Street, one stop north. (AC/WPIX New York, WNBC New York) ...Some people will do anything for a seat on the train.