NYC Subway Record Holder

So this is a thing: there's a Guinness Book of World Records holder for the fastest trip around the entire NYC subway system. And as of May, 2023, there's a new certified record holder: someone named Kate Jones who is, interestingly enough, a native New Yorker living in Switzerland (but who made a trip home to beat this record).

Ms. Jones completed her record-setting route in 22 hours, 14 minutes, and ten seconds. To get a sense of this daunting mission, it required hitting all 472 stations in NYC that covers 665 miles of track. Her journey started way out in Far Rockaway and ended on the far west side of Manhattan. Interestingly enough, the previous record holder completed this mission in less time in 2016 (about 21 1/2 hours) but, since then, three new subway stations have been added to the system (the 2nd Avenue line) thus the obstacle was a little higher. 

So congrats to Kate Jones, this is an amazing achievement! And if you want to read more about what it's like to travel around the entire NYC subway system in a whole day, read this previous blog post from 2018 (the republishing of a Daily News article from 1974).