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# last car
- URL: https://index.pachathemes.com/last-car/
- Published: 2024-04-01T10:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-09T22:09:35.000Z
- Description: Riders, tunnels, and doors on one subway line, late in the day.
- Author: Ida Kjærgaard
- Tags: new york

I rode the same line every evening for a month and photographed whoever shared the car with me, and the tunnels and platforms in between. Most people were somewhere else in their heads, in a book, a phone, or the window. I wanted the quiet of that, the minutes between stations that belong to no one.

![A woman reads behind the window of a passing train](https://cdn.synaps.media/pacha-index/content/images/2026/11/ida-last-car-1.jpg)

A woman reads behind the window of a passing train.

![Two people walk toward the light at the end of an arched tunnel](https://cdn.synaps.media/pacha-index/content/images/2026/11/ida-last-car-2.jpg)

Two people walk toward the light at the end of an arched tunnel.

![Through the window, someone waits beside a blue train](https://cdn.synaps.media/pacha-index/content/images/2026/11/ida-last-car-3.jpg)

Through the window, someone waits beside a blue train.

![Train tracks run out through an arched doorway](https://cdn.synaps.media/pacha-index/content/images/2026/11/ida-last-car-4.jpg)

Train tracks run out through an arched doorway.

![A silhouette with dreadlocks fills a round window](https://cdn.synaps.media/pacha-index/content/images/2026/11/ida-last-car-5.jpg)

A silhouette with dreadlocks fills a round window.

![A steel door, shut, at the end of the car](https://cdn.synaps.media/pacha-index/content/images/2026/11/ida-last-car-6.jpg)

A steel door, shut, at the end of the car.

![A figure stands framed in a circular opening](https://cdn.synaps.media/pacha-index/content/images/2026/11/ida-last-car-7.jpg)

A figure stands framed in a circular opening.

![Passengers crowd the doors under a lit number 12](https://cdn.synaps.media/pacha-index/content/images/2026/11/ida-last-car-8.jpg)

Passengers crowd the doors under a lit number 12.

![A rider in a face mask with a yellow bag on her lap](https://cdn.synaps.media/pacha-index/content/images/2026/11/ida-last-car-9.jpg)

A rider in a face mask with a yellow bag on her lap.