Last week I was heading to a friend’s house very late at night. It was about 3:30am and I was waiting for the subway, I live in NYC. Because it was very late the trains weren’t running often and I had to wait on the platform for several minutes. There was only one other person on the platform with me, a young man. We didn’t speak and when the train arrived we both got on. After I got on the train I realized it wasn’t making all the stops because it was late at night so I got off on the next stop and started looking at train schedules on my phone to find a different train. The man got off at that stop also. I was on the platform looking at my phone and he came up to me and started talking. He was friendly, asking me where I was going. I told him I was trying to find a train to queens and then I asked him where he was going, he said he was going downtown, and he admitted he got off at this stop just because he wanted to talk to me. I said that was very nice and he continued to talk to me for about 10 minutes, asking me where I was going, asking me if I wanted to buy weed from him, how old was I, asking me if I wanted to get a drink etc. and also insisting that I took his phone number. I said no thank you and tried to be polite. I finally realized that I needed to get on the other platform and said goodbye to him, he again tried to give me his number and I again said no and left. As I was walking across the station to get to the other platform another man approached me and asked if any trains were running. I said honestly I wasn’t sure, but I hoped they were because I was trying to get somewhere. Then this man started to follow me, he said “well I wanna go where you’re going, what train you gettin on”. I shrugged him off and said I’m trying to get to queens, then rushed toward my platform and he didn’t follow me, just shouted out that he hoped I have a good night. I said thank you and left. I finally got to my correct platform and got on a train that would take me close to where I was heading. Shortly after I sat on the train a man who was already on the train when I got on moved from his seat to come and sit next to me. He asked me what I was doing out so late, what stop I was going to, etc. I told him I was meeting a friend and he said “lucky friend, what can I do to be a friend like that”. He also tried to give me his phone number. I just tried to be polite but not encouraging and waited until my stop. When I got off he also wished me a good night. This wasn’t too out of the ordinary, I am used to things like this living in New York, but I was a little surprised that it happened with 3 men all in a row. When I finally got to my friend’s house he asked me how it was getting to queens from Manhattan, I told him it was fine, except the trains were delayed and I jokingly said something like “the boys are really out there tonight, three guys came up and were hitting on me”. And my friend said “I’m not surprised because of how you’re dressed.” This is the part that really got to me, I expected him to say something like well it is late at night, or guys on the subway always hit on women alone, but the fact that he mentioned how I was dressed really stuck with me. Especially because I wasn’t dressed in what I would deem sexually provocative. I was wearing black leggings, black boots, and a black tank top that was a little low cut but not exceptionally so. It was also about 100 degrees out in the middle of a heat wave. I wasn’t wearing heels or a dress, just leggings and a tank top. This whole experience really stuck out to me not because of the attention from random men on the subway but because my friend insinuated that that attention was because of what I was wearing. I usually dress very modest (layers, jackets, baggy clothes) because I am selfconscious about my body, this was one of the only days I was wearing a take top. I mean, I honestly don’t know how I could have been more “covered up” without boiling alive because it was extremely hot, I’ve seen men wear ripped tank tops and shorts when it is that hot and no one ever questions what they wear.