As crews cleaned up from the rowdy overnight Super Bowl celebrations in Center City, commuters early Monday made their way to work bearing a mix of sleep deprivation and pure shock.
At the Snyder Avenue Broad Street line station, Albert Solimeo waited quietly for a train — until he spotted neighbor Joseph Forte on the platform. Their high-five’s echoed through the otherwise quiet station.
“It was tit for tat all night long,” 46-year-old Forte said. “They were just going back and forth. And we did it man, usually, you know, Philadelphia, we do it so big and then we blow it in the end.