Word: irt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rescuers, one black, one Hispanic and two Chinese, are on patrol for a vigilante group that calls itself the Magnificent 13. But for their presence at the 149th Street-Grand Concourse IRT station in The Bronx, the traveler might well have become one more grim ripple in the current wave of terror beneath New York's streets. Nobody is sure exactly how many people have been robbed and beaten in recent months by teen-age gangs, often while fellow passengers and even train conductors did nothing. Already this year there have been eight subway murders. On one particularly...
Wearing red berets as a badge of office, the original 13 went into action last Feb. 13, with three teams patrolling what is known as the Muggers' Express, the No. 4 IRT train from Woodlawn in The Bronx to Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn "We stopped a mugging the first night a 167th and River Avenue," one patroller remembers. "We asked the conductor to signal ahead to the next station, where we handed the mugger over to the transit police." A week later, they suffered their first casualty...
...Frank ones, can seem friendly and informal--these two kids ran out into right field, opposite the green wall dividing Fenway from the city. The wall's thinness is something else I can't get used to. You take the subway out to Shea, too, all right, the elevated IRT jammed with happy kids and determined teenagers, but when you get there you're half a green mile from the Unisphere, at the end of Flushing Meadow Park. Fenway's just the opposite--all narrow streets and factories and warehouses. But the kids were on the field. They eluded...
...whatever you say you are. The fickleness of the instantaneous media courses through the film. Having learned his new role from the movies, Ivan poses for pictures with six guns circling his fingers, and sends them to the newspapers. He writes his logo on walls like graffitti on the IRT. And as the news of his exploits spreads, his suddenly rediscovered $20 record rises to the top of the charts...
...Madison Square Garden from Manhattan College, you have to take the Broadway IRT from 242nd St. down to 168th St. and change there for the IND Eighth Ave. line. When Fordham is playing Manhattan at Madison Square Garden, the Manhattan fans make this pilgrimage at least two hours before the contest so that they can be properly soused before game time...