The “Saving Private Ryan” actor wore a face mask, glasses and a beanie while sitting quietly on the 6 train Tuesday, according to the New York Post.<\/a><\/p>\n It wasn\u2019t clear if any of the other riders in the car recognized the two-time Academy Award winner, but he appeared to be left alone during the ride.<\/p>\n Earlier this month, Hanks told Jimmy Kimmel \u2014 while the host\u2019s show was in Brooklyn \u2014 how much he enjoys taking the subway in New York City.<\/p>\n WEST POINT ALUMNI ASSOCIATION CANCELS AWARDS CEREMONY FOR TOM HANKS<\/a><\/p>\n Tom Hanks rides the New York City subway wearing a face mask, glasses and a beanie while sitting quietly on the 6 train Tuesday. (Backgrid)<\/p>\n “I think the New York City<\/a> subway is a miracle,” he told Kimmel. “It moves 7 million people.”<\/p>\n Hanks, 69, said he first moved to New York City when he was 22, living in the Hell\u2019s Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan.<\/p>\n Tom Hanks with his wife, Rita Wilson, at the world premiere of Apple TV+\u2019s “Masters of the Air” last year. (Leon Bennett\/WireImage\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n He said he got a driver after landing his first Broadway show<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n “And on matin\u00e9e days \u2014 Manhattan\u2019s crowded \u2014 it is really, really jammed. And it can take you so long to get there in a car that I would get out at Columbus Circle and say, \u2018I\u2019m just going to walk, don\u2019t worry about it.\u2019”<\/p>\n TOM HANKS SALUTES JIM LOVELL AFTER APOLLO 13 COMMANDER DIES AT 97<\/a><\/p>\n In 2013, while performing in the Broadway show “Lucky Guy,” Hanks told New York Magazine<\/a> why he enjoys the subway.<\/p>\n Tom Hanks waits for a bus in the 1994 film “Forrest Gump.” (Sunset Boulevard\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n “Nobody looks at anybody on the subway,” he told the outlet. “Occasionally, someone might give you a thumbs-up, and you nod. But the city is magnificent as far as that brand of easy anonymity. You just fold right in.”<\/p>\n Tom Hanks appears on “Saturday Night Live” in New York City last December. (Will Heath\/NBC via Getty Images)<\/p>\n Hanks is hardly the only celebrity to ride the subway in the congested, hard-to-find-parking city.<\/p>\n![\"Tom](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/tom-hanks-on-the-subway-in-nyc.jpg\")
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