Ian Frazier Take The F Summary

The essay take the F by Ian Frazier is about his experience living in Brooklyn and that people that live there. People that live in Brooklyn don’t describe where they live in terms of direction like east or north but rather they refer to their neighborhoods and the subway lines that are nearest to them. He talks about the F train that he rode in and out of Manhattan and that diversity of the people who are riding the train. He mentions three classes that are classified as upper, middle, and low class. He describes his neighborhood as a middle class area. He keeps track of the important events in the city with his neighbor. Frazier was fascinated by the mixture of people around the city especially in school were almost all the students speak