Word: subways
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...case grew out of attempts by the Metropolitan Transit Authority to crack down on panhandling in New York City subway cars and stations, but the ruling has nationwide implications. Seeking to stem the proliferation of needy and homeless in a system that serves 1 billion passengers a year, the MTA last October launched its so-called Operation Enforcement. Within weeks, two homeless panhandlers -- Papa Joe Walley, 50, and William Young Jr., 40 -- complained to the Legal Action Center for the Homeless that they were being harassed by the police while begging in the subway. The center filed a class action...
...communication and advocacy," said Douglas Lasdon, executive director of the Legal Action Center for the Homeless. "If the homeless have received any assistance, it is because their pleas have been seen and heard." Burt Neuborne, a law professor at New York University, concurred, arguing that "to the extent subways are simply extensions of the streets, the same freedoms should apply in both places." But the MTA denounced the judge's action and said it would appeal. "The subway is there for one purpose and one purpose alone: to move people from one place to another," said Chairman Robert Kiley...