One of The Tracker’s biggest fans, passed on a scan of 1967 article from the NY Times about some forgotten extreme subway riding record holders.
“Three high seniors said they rode the subways for 23 hours on Thursday, passing through every station in the system, to break the record set by three Princeton students by 28 minutes.
The teen-agers all students at Huntington High School in Long Island, boarded a BMT train at the 168th Street and Jamaica Avenue station in Queens at 12:02 a.m. They got off at the Pelham Bay Park stop of the IRT in the Bronx at 11:02 p.m.”
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Meanwhile, the most recent extreme subway riders – six high school buddies who had an unofficial time of 24 hours and 54 minutes – are still waiting for Guinness World Records to certify their trip.
-- Chuck Bennett
