The summary might look something like this:
The speaker takes a ride on the New York subway and shares his impressions of the stations, the trains, the history, and the culture of the metro system. He compares it to the Moscow metro and shows some of the advantages and disadvantages of each one. He also shows some of the interesting features of the New York subway, such as the most expensive station, the deepest station, the abandoned station, and the poetry project. He concludes by saying that he did not intend to praise or criticize any metro, but just to show it as it is.
Here are some key facts extracted from the text:
1. The New York subway has 472 stations, the largest number in the world.
2. The New York subway was built by two different private companies, which resulted in different widths of cars and different types of designations (letters and numbers).
3. The New York subway operates 24/7, but the intervals between trains can vary from one minute to 25 minutes depending on the time and day of the week.
4. The New York subway has some modern and clean stations, such as Fulton Street and Oculus, but also some old and dirty ones, such as 191 Street.
5. The New York subway has a lot of homeless people, rats, garbage, graffiti and other problems that affect its aesthetics and safety.
6. The New York subway has a project called Poetry in Motion, which displays poems on the cars for passengers to read.
7. The New York subway has a hidden station called City Hall, which is no longer in use but can be seen by staying on the train at the end of the line.