I've been on both the New York 'subway' and the Underground in London.
No one on the 'subway' seemed to mind how crowded it was.
I took/rode the 'subway' to midtown.
(..) in the freezer with the meat. For us, to live any other way was nuts. To us, those goody-good people who worked shitty jobs for bum paychecks... ... and took the subway to work and worried about bills, were dead. They were suckers. They had no balls. If we wanted something, we just took it. (..)1990 Goodfellas