That’s where they have all their personal stuff. You can tell when they’re discharged-they come out with a brown bag, like an old supermarket brown bag. What happened with me was there was a person who got discharged from the facility, from Rikers. It’s seven stops before you actually get into Rikers.

Whoa! Yeah, the line starts in Queens Plaza. There was an assault on my bus! I was on the Rikers line, the Rikers bus. So have you seen anything in your eight years that’s just totally- Oh yeah. I did two years there, and then I went back to Queens.

I took a break, and then I went to the Bronx. Where in the city have you spent most of your time? I've spent most of my career in Queens. I imagine you've got some pretty crazy stories. (The driver, who provided documentation to verify his employment status, asked to speak anonymously because he did not have permission from his supervisors to speak to press.) Last month, Gothamist's Jen Chung was confronted by a niggling moral quandary: Was she wrong for allowing her four-year-old daughter to take up a seat on the bus when an elderly woman was still standing? In response to the debate this issue inspired, one knowledgable party weighed in: A veteran MTA bus driver, who has been making the rounds in Queens and the Bronx for more than eight years, and man, he has seen some shit.

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