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Hemner also suggested overhauling the Pit and redesigning the entrance to the MBTA subway system to permit more open space and easier access to the arcade...
...when my family was living on Morningside Avenue in Harlem. The dominant figure of my youth was a small man, 5 ft. 2 in. tall. In my mind's eye, I am leaning out the window of our apartment, and I spot him coming down the street from the subway station. He wears a coat and tie, and a small fedora is perched on his head. He has a newspaper tucked under his arm. His overcoat is unbuttoned, and it flaps at his sides as he approaches with a brisk, toes-out stride. He is whistling and stops to greet...
Luther Powell never let his race or station affect his sense of self. West Indians like him had come to this country with nothing. Every morning they got on that subway, worked like dogs all day, got home at 8 at night, supported their families and educated their children. If they could do that, how dare anyone think they were less than anybody's equal? That was Pop's attitude...
...come from out of town, and to me New York was a hive. You could not just live here. You had to be somebody, do something it didn't matter what. You were not part of the city unless you were on a bus or a subway and on you way to an office or a factory or a schoolroom...
French authorities are furiously searching for those responsible for the deadly bombing of a Paris subway train during rush hour Tuesday -- an attack that claimed seven lives and left 84 people injured. The bomb, triggered by a timer, exploded at 5:30 p.m. as the train pulled into the Saint-Michel station along the Seine River near Notre Dame cathedral.No group has claimed responsibility for the incidentbut authorities have several theories, reports TIME's William Rademaekers. "The French have many enemies," he explains. Algerian militants, Bosnian Serbs and extremist antinuclear groups -- all have motives. The Algerian Armed Islamic Group...