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...York, New York, a hell- uv-a town, The Bronx is up but the Battery's down, And people ride in a hole in the ground. - Lyric from On the Town...
Skates and bicycles did not appeal to Grant McLeod in The Bronx, so he drove his car seven miles north to Yonkers, then took a Conrail train 14 miles south to Grand Central. "It actually took me less time than the subway," says McLeod. "Of course, it costs three times as much...
...piece rate: no work, no money. MacLevy, owner of a leather-coat manufacturing business in Manhattan, reported that fewer than a third of his workers were able to get to their jobs. Said he: "They live in places too far away for a bicycleplaces like the South Bronx and Brooklyn...
...Yorkers are best in adversity," Mayor Koch kept saying as he cheered on walkers and joggers and cyclists. Often enough, they are (as in the 1965 blackout, though not the one in 1977). But at week's end their patience was beginning to wear a bit thin. The Bronx, it turned out, was indeed a long way up, and the Battery a long way down, and the people who work and live in the nation's biggest and busiest city were eageras they never thought they would beto get back into their hole...
...heisting Manhattan turns out to be less farfetched than it sounds. A few well-planted bombs all too easily close train and subway access; destruction of six major bridges and four tunnels completes the island's separation from the mainland. Meanwhile, a smoothly engineered blackout in the South Bronx results in looting and arson, distracting police from the citynapers' main operation...