Word: subway
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Koch reacts with relative serenity to ugly personal attacks. A bachelor and a defender of civil rights for homosexuals, he has frequently been the target of rumormongers. This summer anonymous stickers showed up on subway cars bearing the punchline: IS NEW YORK READY FOR A GAY MAYOR? Says Koch: "They've been doing that for 14 years. I'm inured to it by now." He is only slightly more irritated by the whispered canard that he is really an Episcopalian. "What a low blow," he chuckles. "But I don't mind so much because...
Most Bronxites leg it faster than they are accustomed to when they disembark from the Broadway subway at 242nd St. and Van Cortlandt Park, but the Harvard harriers are not your average group of New Yorkers and yesterday they were badly outstripped by both Penn and Columbia...
...proposed construction has drawn fire from many residents of Arlington, who argued that the new subway stops would attract commercial developers who would in turn disrupt neighboring areas with large shopping and hotel complexes...
Construction in Harvard Square will begin within two months on the first phase of the state's plan to extend Red Line subway service to Arlington, a city planning officer told a meeting of the Cambridge Transportation Forum last night...
John R. Hixson, an employee in the city transportation office, said workers will begin building a temporary station to handle Harvard Square passengers while the subway line is being extended, "by about late October or November." The temporary station will occupy a site on the Eliot St. MBTA yards, near where workers are now building the new John F. Kennedy School of Government...