NEW YORK—Before subways shut down because of Hurricane Sandy, three women spent more than 24 hours on the subway system, trying to break a record.
Stefanie Gray, with a co-worker and friend, boarded the subway on Oct. 23, seeking to break the Guinness World Record for how quickly someone can visit every subway station in the system.
The record is 22 hours, 56 minutes, and 36 seconds, set in January 2010.
The rules stipulate that one must stop at every station with the doors open, so the trio could, for example, take the No. 7 train to Flushing then take the express train back to Manhattan.
Gray even received encouragement before she started from the chief of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), which runs the subway system.
But, the three women did not break the record in the end. They were disrupted by having a subway car they were in emptied out by police at 5:00 a.m., and long waits in the Bronx and the Rockaways in Brooklyn.
“Ultimately I was just held back by shoddy service,” said Gray.
The trip ultimately took about 30 hours.
