Being a newbie to the city, I’m still trying to get used to everyday life here in New York city. One of the major changes is that for the first time in my professional career, I am required to wear a suit and tie for the majority of the week. While I do enjoy dressing up and making myself presentable, I always chose not to wear a suit in hot summer day even when I was driving to work in my comfy airconditioned car.
Now, enter the 90+ degree weather with Full suit (undershirt, long sleeve dress shirt, and suit jacket) plus no car. If that’s not bad enough, my main form of transportation happens to be the New York Subway system.
It is a pretty well organized system, I must admin, but one thing that is left out and I wish someone is thinking about making the situation better is that all the stations (there might be a few that are exceptions but I have not been to them) are without air conditioning.
One bright way of looking at it would be that people wearing suit are no longer worse off than those in flip-flops and shorts because the humidity is so high underground where everyone patiently await for the next train.
Then I remember, Korean subway stations had A/C running full blast in summer.
