All aboard the gravy train!
Good-spirited subway riders set up a full Thanksgiving feast on board a Brooklyn-bound L train Wednesday, inviting strangers to help themselves to all the fixings in a quintessentially New York tradition.
A group of charitable New Yorkers crafted the “Friendsgiving” experience — complete with festive decorations — on the L train and manned it throughout Wednesday afternoon as straphangers filtered on and off the subway cars.
“Happy Thanksgiving, ladies and gentlemen!” one of the party’s conductors announced to the packed car as music blasted in the background.
A Thanksgiving spread featuring all the traditional fixings, including multiple succulent turkeys, was laid across two cloth-covered tables smack in the center of two subway cars. Complete strangers packed into the cars and loaded the bounty onto paper plates provided by the organizers.
The subway car railings and hand bars were decked out in faux foliage and glitzy golden tassels to better set the mood.
Several passengers-turned-party-goers danced along to crowd-favorite songs, with some sashaying off the subway when they reached their stop and bid adieu to their new friends.
Despite the soirée’s location having a reputation as a hotbed of germs and often questionable spills, volunteers serving the Turkey Day banquet were strict on hygiene and handling of the food and cutlery.
“Why would you put your spoon in there? Don’t ever do that,” one volunteer sternly admonished an apparent double-dipper.
Whenever the subway would make a jerky stop, it was all hands on deck. Both participants and organizers would hunker down and cling to the foldable tables to prevent the platters from slipping over the edge.
“Shoutouts to everybody who make this possible, everybody here, all the content creators, and let’s all eat together!” one rider praised.
The organizers weren’t shy about forking over the leftovers and happily provided plastic bags for people to take home.
The bizarre, but heart-warming subway celebration has become somewhat of a tradition in the Big Apple.
In 2022, an L train happened to stall at Bedford Station, so the riders retreated to the L train on the opposite tracks, which, to their surprise, was set up for the Thanksgiving celebration.
“I was in a different car and when I stepped onto the platform, there were all these happy, laughing people scarfing down [mac] and cheese!” a reporter with the Washington Post praised.
That year, the spread was arranged by a group with Chef Bea Kitchen, a catering service in New York.
In 2019, stand-up comedian Jodell “Joe Show” Lewis spent months painstakingly organizing the day-long dining, and specifically chose the L train because he was often “dreary” while riding it for his commute.
“My actions also show people from out of town visiting that there is flavor here in the city and New York has a heart,” he told The Post that year.
It wasn’t clear who was behind this year’s celebration, but at least one organizer referred to the group as content creators.

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