The New York TImes has the story of the avant garde violinist who lost his violin at the Clark Street station of the 2/3 train after playing a show with his quartet the Fluxus Quartet at Bargemusic, the floating performance space in Brooklyn Heights.

This is a Brooklyn story par excellance. The Times’ reports that the violin was found at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue station.

Sometime after 10 p.m., Mr. Chiu said, he got a call from a transit
official at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue station. “He asked if I
was missing something,” he said. “I described the contents of the
violin case. He said there were a bunch of bow ties in it and I knew it
was mine.”

The official, Mr. Chiu said, told him that the violin
had been sitting on a desk at the station for a while — perhaps days.
“He found something with my name and address on it inside the violin
case and figured it must mean something to somebody, so he called me.”

The
Coney Island station, however, does not house the Metropolitan
Transportation Authority’s official lost-and-found. “I think it’s for
things that were found on trains on all the lines that end there,” Mr.
Chiu said. The Clark Street station, where Mr. Chiu and the Scarampella
had last been together, is on the 2 and the 3 — which do not go to
Coney Island.