Spying, Chavez-Style

                                 The place: 59th Street/Columbus Circle subway station

The time: 8:47 AM

The vantage point: From an uptown C train, with the doors closing.

The scene: A white man, 30ish, short black hair, a couple days of stubble, wearing a grey "Marines" shirt, cargo shorts, laceless sneakers, pausing on the platform and using his MetroCard to pick his teeth before putting it back in his pocket and walking off into the crowded New York morning.