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This Sing-Along Will Restore Your Good Will Toward Your Fellow New Yorkers

By Nicole Levy | July 29, 2015 11:13am

It's easy to lose your patience with other New Yorkers in this heat. 

But this impromptu sing-along, recorded on the R train Sunday night, will restore some of your good will toward your fellow city dwellers:

 

These singing straphangers — belting out an unrehearsed rendition of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" — were on their way home from an outdoor dance party in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, the videographer said.

Lifelong New Yorker, Claudia Zakrzewski, 23 said that she and four of her friends boarded the R train toward Manhattan at 36th Street when they spotted through the window their subway car a group of strangers dancing in the next car over. They joined the spontaneous shindig at the next stop.

"No one knew each other, but we sang everything from 'I Want it That Way' to 'Walkin' on Sunshine,'" she told DNAinfo in an email. "I have no idea how all these people knew all these lyrics."

The singers' ranks thinned out station by station. Zakrzewski exited the train at Union Square, loathe to leave the chorus.

"If I could somehow find all of these people and become best friends with them, I would," she said.

In this sprawling metropolis, we're just content to enjoy the company of strangers now and then.