Ilya Kaminsky, a Jewish Ukrainian-American poet who became deaf at a young age due to complications from mumps, has his poem "Lullaby" featured on New York City subway trains as part of the Metropolitan Transit Authority's Poetry in Motion series.

In episode 81 of Unorthodox, the focus is on Jewish baseball with guest Adam Irving discussing his documentary "Off the Rails" about Darius McCollum, a transit enthusiast with Asperger's arrested multiple times for impersonating NYC subway conductors.