Turning Subway Tracks Into Ad Hoc Wishing Wells
Michael Shannon did it for love.
Mr. Shannon, a 40-year-old tea merchant from Queens, stood on a mostly empty platform in the Nassau Avenue subway station in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, one recent Friday night, a black fox fur stole draped over his shoulders and a black felt fedora atop his great mane of hair.
He tossed pennies, 11 of them in succession, into a…
