Word: subways
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Then last week came the murder of 22-year-old Brian Watkins, an avid tennis buff from Provo, Utah, on a subway platform in midtown Manhattan. Over the years, his family frequently made a pilgrimage to watch the U.S. Open tennis tournament in Queens. En route to dinner at Tavern on the Green, a popular tourist attraction, the family was attacked by a group of eight black and Hispanic youths. After one of the gang cut open his father's pocket to get at his money and punched his mother in the face, Brian jumped to his parents' defense...
...behind the blinding glitter of the new multimillionaires, the city was failing the bulk of its citizens. Even the basic rudiments of civil behavior seemed to evaporate along with the glitter of the boom times. Every day 155,000 subway riders jump the turnstiles, denying the cash-strapped mass transit system at least $65 million annually. The streets have become public rest rooms for both people and animals, even though failure to clean up after a pet dog carries fines of up to $100. What was once the bustle of a hyperkinetic city has become a demented frenzy...
While heading downtown to interview Mayor David Dinkins for this week's story on New York City, bureau chief Joelle Attinger walked to a subway stop four blocks from the Time & Life Building. As she approached the subway entrance, a police car screeched up beside it, followed by two more. Drawing his gun, one cop dashed down the stairs, while another warned passersby not to enter. Attinger took a taxi...
...trajectory from Oslo ended a day or so later in the New York City subway station where a tourist was murdered. The sociopaths who killed him did not hate him. Not at all. They wanted money to go dancing at Roseland. That blank, murderous absence of hate holds terrors that did not come up in Oslo...
...funny looking," come to think of it, but also "funny": New York is the only city I've ever been in where almost everyone you meet on the street considers himself a comedian -- a fact brought home to me a couple of years ago when a panhandler near my subway stop said to me, "Can you spare some change? I'd like to buy a few junk bonds.") In the matter of contentiousness, I once tried to indicate the difference between New York and the Midwest, where I grew up, by saying that in the Midwest if you approach someone...