‘My My Metrocard’ by Le Tigre (1999) is a raucous hymn to the New York subway and an attack on the then mayor’s much vaunted efforts to ‘clean up’ the city: ‘oh fuck Giuliani/…/next stop Atlantic Avenue’. The song came to mind when I was in New York towards the end of last year and every subway station was saturated with the NYPD. The current mayor, Eric Adams, had announced plans to ‘target transit crime’ and further criminalise homelessness.