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Through the turbulence of the '60s and '70s the clock stood steady, until subway construction and redirecting of streets and sidewalks forced its removal in 1979. With a redesigned clock face, a replica of the original made by the F. Howard Clock Co., the piece reappeared in late December...
Regarding the recent "Life on the Bench" editorial concerning Peter J. Howe's reading graffiti ("Liber Als Suck," to beprecise) on a subway bench, I would like to suggest that if the basic American conservative philosophy can be summarized as "men must be free" then the basic liberal argument can be simplified to "all men must be equal...
...York-phobic contingent that has been vindicated by the actions of the past five weeks is correct in thinking that Goetz's actions proved what they had suspected all along--anything terrible can happen on the subway, and probably will...
Bernhard Goetz, who was mugged on the train in 1981, was a regular subway rider even after that assault. Surely he, like all other regular subway riders, has seen just about every imaginable thing, and some that have led to the phrase "only in New York" becoming a cliche, like the man who rode the IND with a Burmese python wrapped around his neek. One of those things is kids with sharpened screwdrivers in their jackets asking you for money to play video games. But in Bernhard Goetz, something finally snapped, and he told four Black teenagers that...
...another but of the climate of violence that prevails below the streets of New York Goetz's victims, in addition, are the products of a system that has left them knowing few other was to make a living than jimmying open video games and mugging other people on the subway...