New York City Subway Riding Records

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Record Attempt Participants Date Time Successful? Still holds? Links Notes
Riding all lines A Flushing youth
(Jerome Moses)
1957 25:36:00 Yes Doubtful Link -story printed on 1966 subway map
ANYSRC Class A Peter R. Samson
George Mitchell
Andy Jennings
Jeff Dwork
Dave Anderson
Dick Gruen
March 31-
April 1, 1966
25:57:20 Yes No Link -
ANYSRC Class A George Mitchell
Andy Jennings
April 19-20, 1967 25:50:30 Yes Unknown Link -computer used to plot route
ANYSRC Class B
Guinness World Record
Kevin Foster October 25-26, 1989 26:21:08 Yes No NY Post -
ANYSRC Class C Mike Falsetta
Salvatore Babones
January 1998 25:11:00 Yes No Time
NY Post
-
ANYSRC Class B David-Paul Gerber
et. al.
July 24-25, 2003 34:12:00 No n/a NY Post
Photos
-DiscoveryTimes Channel TV crew caused delays
-every station was touched
-no log kept
ANYSRC Class C Richard E. Green
Mike Fields
July 25-26, 2005 24:59:52 Yes No Link -every station was touched
ANYSRC Class B David-Paul Gerber
Trevor
Carlos
Nick
Koi
December 5-6, 2005 27:00:00 No n/a - -every station was touched
-no log kept
ANYSRC Class C Matt Green
Don Badaczewski
August 23-24, 2006 24:02:00 Yes Yes Link
amNY
-received major media attention
ANYSRC Class B
Guinness World Record
Bill Amarosa
Brian Brockmeyer
Stefan Karpinski
Andrew Weir
Jason Laska
Michael Boyle
December 28-29, 2006 24:54:03 Yes Yes Link -received major media attention
-set Guinness World Record
ANYSRC Class B
Guinness World Record
Chris Solarz
Matt Ferrisi
January 22-23, 2009 22:51:XX Yes NOT YET
CERTIFIED
Daily News 1
Daily News 2
-received media attention
-likely set Guinness World Record

ANYSRC = the Amateur New York Subway Riding Committee

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Last updated: 01/24/2009