Listen — if only for a moment — to the underground sound of your daily commute

New Yorkers hustle hard. We're constantly in motion. We commute long distances to work even longer hours. We navigate furious crowds and infuriating obstacles every day. And for those of us who routinely ride the subway, much of that time spent hustling and hurrying happens underground.

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In our haste, we often pay little attention to the people who provide a soundtrack to that daily dash: New York City's underground musicians, who sit at the intersections of city life. They're clustered around Grand Central, Union Square, 42nd Street-Times Square and other major transit hubs, or they're partial to particular stations along particular lines. They exemplify the hustle that drives so many artists and performers to come to NYC, and they risk sharing their passions with strangers who may reject or simply ignore them.

Sometimes we'll drop some coins or bills into an open guitar case. Maybe we'll linger and listen for a moment. Most days, we just hurry by.

This time, we stopped and chatted with a few performers and shot some portraits along the G and L lines that take many young New Yorkers back and forth between Brooklyn and Manhattan.
Andrew Kalleen busks at the Metropolitan stop on the G train.Source: Joshua Kristal
Metropolitan Ave. Station

Andrew Kalleen moved to New York after college to start playing music full-time. He's been playing piano since he was 4 years old, and he studied musical composition at San Francisco State University. He busks full-time now and is able to support himself, as many buskers are.

Kalleen performs almost every day for about one to six hours. He plays keyboard some days in the West 4th Street or Broadway-Lafayette stations, and other days he plays guitar in various subway stations. One of his favorite spots is still the Metropolitan Avenue G stop in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
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"I think a lot of people are more nervous to busk than to do an open mic or play a show," Kalleen said. "When you're doing an open mic or playing a show, everyone has given you permission to be up there and performing... whereas in the subway you are just showing up and giving something, and you are open to the criticism of everyone."


Sung Lee beat boxing at Union SquareSource: Joshua Kristal
Union Square Station

Sung Lee beat boxes on subway platforms. He's been beat boxing for the past two years after quitting his job "cold turkey" to perform music. He moved from Las Vegas, where he was working as a teacher, to New York in order to start playing full-time.

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"I started from the bottom, I guess, performing on the streets," Lee said. "One thing lead to another, and I started getting better, started getting more recognition. Eventually it's kind of become a full-time thing."
Sung Lee draws a crowd at the Union Square Station.Source: Joshua Kristal

Many buskers play professional gigs, and some find fans to come to their shows from their performances in the subway. There are musicians who are trying to build a following, and then there are people who play in the professional symphony orchestra one day and the subway platform the next.
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"The pressure is on more in the subway because you have all these commuters and tourists. They don't have to give you the time of day if they don't want to," Lee said. "My job there is to get their attention. I'm more aggressive. I talk to them more. I engage them more than say a gig where everyone is seated and expecting you to perform."
Zoe Walsh plays at the 14th Street L Station.Source: Joshua Kristal

Competition for MTA-approved busking slots can be fierce. Artists must submit a packet with their information, demos and musical performance history months in advance. Then, they show up and audition for just a handful of locations, in one day. The MTA program locations are some of the best spots in the city: Grand Central, 34th Street and Times Square. These are places artists can make good money in just a few hours.
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Being vulnerable amidst a crowd of strangers who have places to be and things to do is an intimidating undertaking. To stand there making music while people ignore you takes courage, and to do it for nothing certainly seems like a selfless act. We don't often stop to think what it might have taken to get a six-piece drum kit down four flights of stairs to the L train platform. Sometimes we pretend not to listen because we don't want to give, or we avoid making eye contact even though we're enjoying the music.
Dee Dee King at Union Square StationSource: Joshua Kristal

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Our practiced New Yorker strides side-step all things that threaten to slow us down, interrupt us or ask us for something. We're so focused on our phones, our next destination, our personal struggles, we miss the moments that many tourists make a point of capturing on their cameras.

Whether you're performing or passing by, the subway would feel empty without its buskers. While plenty of cities have street performers, Lee believes there's something unique about the musicians who spend their time underground in New York's subway platforms.

"It's more of a culture here than in other places," Lee said. "It's been around for a long time. You can just tell when you walk outside. There's almost a performer in every station. It's everywhere, and that's what I love about it."
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And if you stop, you find yourself between moments — paused, if only briefly, in the present. And a moment is all you need to change the tone of your day

Pokémon Go' update: 20 best attackers and defenders after TDO and CP changes

Pokémon Go experts at The Silph Road have crunched the numbers and delivered their analysis as to which Pokémon are the best attackers and defenders following the balance update and combat point changes on Nov. 21. And we have the information in one handy-dandy spreadsheet.
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If you're ready to start crushing your enemies and hearing the lamentation of their Pokémon, these are the new gym battlers to care about.
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The new rankings list is based on data from The Silph Road community member Qmike, who for many months has been crunching combat numbers in Pokémon Go and sharing the results with the Silph Road community. Qmike's new data following the balance update has been translated into a Google spreadsheet that you may copy, examine and reorder as you please.

The data ranks Pokémon based on their total damage output or TDO, that is defined as the amount of damage the Pokémon can be expected to do against an average opponent in a gym battle before the Pokémon faints. TDO is just one methodology by which you can measure the relative strength of Pokémon, but Qmike argues that TDO takes more factors into account.
Pokémon Go Update: Judging Pokémon by total damage output

The new spreadsheet lists all the Pokémon in Pokémon Go from best to worst based on their TDO. It also tells you which moveset is optimal for which Pokémon, according to Qmike's analysis.

There are two different kinds of TDO listed on the spreadsheet. "TDO" represents a Pokémon's performance as an attacker, and "def_TDO" represents a Pokémon's performance as a defender.

Figuring out the new best gym attackers and defenders is as easy as re-ordering the list first by the TDO column (best attackers) and then by the def_TDO column (best defenders).

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The new top 20 gym defenders in 'Pokémon Go', following the recent balance update.Source: GrayMagicGamma/The Silph Road
Pokémon Go Update: The new top 20 Pokémon gym defenders

If we remove Mewtwo's info from the list — as no one has caught Mewtwo yet — it's easier to read the top 20 results, and they're encouraging for Snorlax fans. Snorlax appears five times in the top 20 defenders list.

Lapras and Dragonite also appear several times on the top 20 defenders list, as does Vaporeon. These are all usual suspects for "best Pokemon" lists, but note that Rhydon also appears on the list four times.

Rhydon hasn't been a popular endgame Pokémon in Pokémon Go historically. We may be seeing the first, concrete result of the recent balance update.
The new top 20 gym attackers in 'Pokémon Go', following the recent balance update.Source: GrayMagicGamma/The Silph Road
Pokémon Go Update: The new top 20 Pokémon gym attackers

The top 20 attackers list is also mostly familiar faces. Dragonite, Snorlax, and Vaporeon dominate the top 10. Lapras and Gyarados are also acknowledged endgame Pokémon.

Again, Rhydon appears a few times and is not a traditional endgame Pokémon, so we may be seeing another result of the balance update.

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The good news is that veteran players likely have attack squads built around Snorlax, Dragonite, and Vaporeon as they've been powerful endgame Pokémon in Pokémon Go since early on. The bad news is that if these top 20 lists are correct, the balance update may not do much for gym diversity.