http://www.latitudenews.com/story/all-aboard-the-international-express-to-queens-new-york/

As a transit enthusiast and future train engineer, I’d be greatly remiss if I didn’t post an article on this topic.

I’ve been on the 7 a few times (when it was actually running!), and I have to say that the diversity is unlike any other.  Indeed, it is safe to say that most, if not all, subway lines pass through a variety of ethnic neighborhoods.  (The Q, my home line, runs through the Russian Brighton Beach, through the predominately Jewish area of Midwood, and enters Manhattan in none other than Chinatown.)  But the 7 is the New York of the New York Subway System–not just in terms of train delays, but also in terms of its diversity.

If diversity were a metric in the State of the Subways report card (an annual report card done by Straphangers Campaign), the 7 might actually be agreed upon to be one of the better lines (the fact that it was rated first last summer had many, especially 7 riders themselves, confused and frustrated).