Word: subway
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...time I left the New York Stock Exchange at mid-morning Monday and headed north in search of a subway back to midtown, I was closer than I?d ever been to knowing what it was to lose a hundred friends in an hour. The Dow?s losses had stabilized in the 600-point range by mid-morning, and the only thing to do was to shuffle back though the smoke and the dust and an impertinent sun, back to my usual market-watching perch in front of the TV in my cubicle. Just in case the bottom dropped...
...source of White's well-dispersed fortune is the J.F. White Contracting Co., which he took over from his father in 1945. The firm built much of the Boston subway system, as well as the Charles River Dam and Foxboro Stadium. White's business success fueled a run to the top of Boston society. At one time, he belonged to half a dozen private clubs and was John F. Kennedy's chief fund raiser in New England. But White grew disillusioned keeping company with the rich, in his view an often selfish lot. Some 20 years ago, he decided...
...Starbucks on every corner and it's so expensive to live in Manhattan and all these things that are different from when I grew up here--the bottom line is that when you walk down the street or get in a cab or you're on the subway, you're still amongst humanity. It's not segregated the way many American cities...
There were no strangers in town anymore, only sudden friends, sharing names, news and phones. Lines formed, at least 20 people long, at all pay phones, because cell phones were not working. Should we go to work? Is the subway safe? "Let's all have a good look at each other," a passenger said to the others in her car. "We may be our last memory." The passengers stranded at La Guardia Airport asked one another where exactly they were supposed to go and how they were to get there. Bridges, tunnels and ferries to Manhattan were not running. Strangers...
Geoffrey A. Fowler ’00, a reporter at the Wall Street Journal, was on the subway on his way to work immediately after the crashes had occurred. Listening to music on his MP3 player, he wasn’t paying attention to the large numbers of people standing around as he swiped his card. Only when he and the other passengers were evacuated from the Chambers Streeet stop did Fowler learn of the tragedy, one stop away from the WTC on the E train...