Word: subway
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Most of the commuters exiting the 34th Street subway stop last Monday morning treated Democrat Ruth Messinger with resolute indifference. But they weren't the demoralizing ones. They were those who felt bad for her, like George, a 33-year-old accountant. After pronouncing that incumbent Rudy Giuliani is rash and a bad listener, he strode over to Messinger and clasped her hand. "Not this time," he consoled, as the smile vanished from the candidate's face...
...press has derided this year's race for mayor of New York City as boring and meaningless. But in tiny, sad moments like those at the subway stop, one can see how remarkable an election it really is. Five years ago, Messinger was a pillar of the earnest liberal establishment that ran New York. Last Monday, at the corner of Seventh Avenue and 34th Street, she was a figure of deep marginality...
...York subway system--like the city itself, dirty, expensive, massive, confusing, yet a second (and at times first) home to so many--has a long association with the New York sports scene...
Walt "Clyde" Frazier got his nickname because he rode the New York subway to games and to local clubs afterwards dressed like Clyde from the "Bonnie and Clyde" television tandem--very eccentric...
...Getting to the store from Harvard Square couldn't be easier. Simply take the inbound Red Line to Park Street. At Park St., take any outbound Green Line train to the Hynes Convention Center. Eric Flaim's Motion Sports is right across the street from Tower Records at the subway stop...