Abstract:

Each day, 500,000 people from 117 different countries ride a bright red subway that runs from Flushing to Times Square, going through Queens, the most ethnically diverse region in the U.S. "The No. 7 Train" follows four immigrant passengers: a Korean who works in a Harlem fish store, Otavalen street vendors in Chinatown, and a gay Pakistani fabric salesman on Fifth Avenue. Their lives and their conflicted relationships with the city and its other residents are juxtaposed with the subway they take each day to get to Manhattan and their dreams for the future.