The elevated sections of the New York City subway create corridors through neighborhoods and shared, local space. Everyone walks to the train station. This pedestrian traffic attracts businesses, which attract more people, making the elevated tracks a spine for the neighborhoods through which they run. Below the tracks, it is dark in the day, deafeningly loud when the trains pass. And yet, these streets also offer opportunity, a public space with a promise of mobility, both literal and social, as the trains thunder overhead, going in and out of Manhattan. Under the Train uses the high contrast light and shadow created by sunlight coming through the elevated tracks to capture the feeling of everyday life, both hard and hopeful, in these neighborhoods. This is what makes New York great: rich interaction of the people from all over the world who live here, trying to make a better life for themselves and their children.