The last time I rode a NYC subway was February 2002. My boss took the company to NYC for a weekend trip. He thought it was out duty as Americans at the time. Six months after 9/11 the city was pretty much a ghost town on the weekends.
We were riding the train and were told by a middle aged Black man that we were on the wrong train. We needed to get off at the next stop because the one we were on would not stop again until Brooklyn on the weekends. We thanked him for helping us out. He thanked us for coming to the city. Even though we were a bunch of Red Sox fans.
I may never go to NYC again. The way it is today.
The thing is that a lot of Brooklyn that used to be “black” back in 2002 now has got a sizeable white population, albeit all liberal whites.