A week after the Brooklyn N train shooting, the only sign that it happened are the flowers at the entrance of the 36th Street station.

Underground, it feels once again like a regular commute.

“Things are turning to normal, I hope,” Kishore Saravana, who commutes from 36th Street station, said. “It's good people are feeling safe. Right now, it's back. Thank you, NYPD.”

What You Need To Know

  • At the 36th Street station alone, there were 8,865 riders entering the stop on Thursday after the attack, 831 trips fewer than the prior week

  • Systemwide, the Thursday after the attack and before the attack both saw 3.3 million subway trips

  • Sunset Park residents set up vigil outside station where mass shooting took place

Saravana has resumed his regular commute from his Sunset Park home. But unlike longtime commuters, he's only been riding the trains for three months. He's a 23-year-old MBA student from India.

And he may have been in the station when the morning rush hour attack happened — had he not slept through his alarm.

"I checked the news, it was terrible, full of blood splashed all over. It was literally terrible," Saravana said.

He stayed in Manhattan with a friend after the attack. Friday was his first subway trip back to his apartment in Brooklyn.

"I was coming from Manhattan to Brooklyn, I was really scared that night when I was coming through," Saravana said. "I was so shady about people, I was looking at people who was there, who was not there."

It's unclear what effect, if any, the attack had on ridership in the system or at the station because ridership typically declines during Easter and Passover holidays, which started Friday.

At the 36th Street station alone, there were 8,865 riders entering the stop on Thursday after the attack, 831 trips fewer than the prior week.

Systemwide, the Thursday after the attack and before the attack both saw 3.3 million subway trips.

Emily Poulis, a restaurant designer, took the train to Sunset Park for work.

"I did take a couple Ubers last week, but it's just kind of a given that stuff is going to happen — terrifying, but I can't afford to take Ubers every day or taxis," she said.

For Saravana, he didn't expect how quickly New Yorkers went back to their commuting routines. And now he's one of them.

"New York is fast moving, really fast moving. But I didn't know it's this fast moving," Saravana said. "Literally a terrible attack happened a week ago, and people are traveling back."