Word: subways
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...straight years, New York City had been pounded with one act of racial violence after another. 1982: Willie Turks, a black transit worker, is beaten to death by a mob of whites shouting racial slurs. 1984: Bernhard Goetz wounds four young blacks he said were menacing him on the subway. 1986: a white mob in the Howard Beach section of Queens attacks several blacks, one of whom fled in panic onto a highway and was killed by a passing car. 1989: a 28- year-old white executive is beaten and raped in Central Park by a pack of black teenagers...
Dinkins has been hampered by an economic decline aggravated by massive layoffs on Wall Street. To balance the city budget, he must raise $850 million from higher taxes and slash services by $303 million. That will mean backing away from campaign promises to put a cop on every subway train and provide housing for the homeless. Managing cutbacks would be difficult under any circumstances, but Dinkins has filled many of the top posts in his administration with outsiders, such as Police Commissioner Lee Brown (recruited from Houston) and Health Commissioner Woodrow Myers (from Indianapolis), who have no experience...
...violated the beggars' right to free speech. But last week the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reinstated the ban, ruling that far from being a form of speech, begging seems an "assault" and a "detriment" to the common good. That's bound to cheer many a subway user, but it leaves the panhandlers without much to be thankful...
DOWN in New York City, where I come from, fare beaters, people who jump the turnstiles for the sake of $1.15, plague the subway system. The subway authorities estimate that 5 percent of all passengers evade the fare; at many stations, the rate approaches 40 percent. Liberal commentators, many of whom rarely use the subway (we call them limousine liberals), point to the high fare and the poverty that afflicts so many of the subway's riders...
...shouldn't take much time in the bowels of the subway system to realize that for every disease-ridden, drugcrazed bum who manages to stagger through a turnstile without depositing a token, there are three 30-year-old downtown businesspeople who enjoy showing off the hurdling skills they developed while on the track team at some elite college like, say, Harvard. I found further proof of the lack of correlation between socioeconomic condition and depravity in what I saw at the Lowell House Formal last Saturday night at the Harvard Club of Boston...