Word: manhattans
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...everywhere (museums even offer specially priced "soldier" tickets). Yet for all that, the city is much calmer than the choreographed, telegenic demonstrations suggest. For most of the area's residents, the convulsions of the "demo-crazy" students are as remote as South Bronx gangland warfare to a businessman in Manhattan; many, in fact, are concerned not that security will be too lax at the Olympics, but that it will be too inflexibly tight...
Since traffic jams are almost synonymous with urban growth, they have been building for a long time. (The term gridlock apparently came into common use in New York City during a transit workers' strike in 1980, when a surge of commuter autos paralyzed Manhattan's street grid.) Congestion on two-lane highways in the 1950s hastened construction of the 42,797-mile interstate system, which will be officially completed in 1991 (estimated final cost: $108 billion). But the interstates eased overcrowding only temporarily. Says Transportation Secretary James Burnley: "It's not a problem that will be resolved in a final...
...miles west of Denver, where throngs of cars bearing ski racks turn the interstate into a virtual parking lot each winter. North Kendall Drive, a suburban Miami thoroughfare described as a "road to nowhere" when it was built some 20 years ago, is now almost as choked as Manhattan streets. The number of airports considered by the FAA to be severely congested, meaning they suffer from annual flight delays of 20,000 hours or more, is expected to increase from 18 in 1986 to 32 by 1996 if no action is taken...
...oats in it. The once reviled grain has suddenly emerged as the hottest health food around. People are sprinkling it on cereal, mixing it with fruit, baking it in cakes, dissolving it in shakes and swallowing it in pills. Declares Charles Rosenblum, owner of a natural-foods store in Manhattan: "People are interested in taking it in any form they...
Completed in 1903, the Williamsburg Bridge over New York City's East River has long served as a major traffic artery between Brooklyn and lower Manhattan, with more than 240,000 commuters crossing the 1 1/2-mile steel span every day in cars, buses and subway trains. But the bridge is literally falling apart, the result of decades of neglect by city leaders who skimped on maintenance. Last April, after inspectors reported severe corrosion in key support beams and cracks in deck surfaces, the city temporarily closed the bridge. Result: bridgelock. As New Yorkers jammed other bridges and tunnels, the city...