Word: subways
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Arocha said that the committee has been encouraged by the sale of 35,000 special subway and bus tickets sold for the event...
...living," residents shrugged off the curmudgeonly remark as the latest from the city's self-appointed curmudgeon. But Koch's sour mood has caught on over the past twelve months, surfacing recently in cartoons, editorials, dinner conversations and official campaigns to move the city's vagrants out of its subway, bus and train stations...
...says Robert Kiley, chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. "Just in the past four or five weeks, I've seen a couple of near physical confrontations." Peter Harris, the MTA's director of research, says his "eyes kind of bulged" in October as he listened to the complaints of subway riders who participated in a focus group. "One woman said, 'I've spent my whole life in New York, I've grown up on the Upper West Side, and I consider myself a liberal. But I'm sick and tired of feeling guilty.' " Says Harris: "This thing has really turned...
This free-floating anger crystallized two months ago around the case of Rodney Sumter, 39, who was charged with first-degree manslaughter for beating to death a homeless man on a subway platform after the stranger spat on him and punched him in the head. Sumter who was traveling with his three-year-old son and had lately worked in a program to train homeless people in construction, had all the credentials of an earnest victim. Civil rights leader Roy Innis rallied to Sumter's defense, as did editorialists from the city's newspapers. "How many subway riders, wary...
Actors Judd Nelson, Howard Hesseman and Elizabeth Pena came to Harvard as part of the "Freedom of Choice Campus Tour," a pro-choice voter registration drive sponsored by the Hollywood Policy Foundation Center. The three actors stood by student activists near the Harvard Square subway station, and handed out leaflets encouraging people to register to vote...