“Traveling on the New York subway system is now one of the more frightful experiences Western civilization has to offer on a regular basis. The experience is not only intolerable. It is also a daily advertisement for the brutish sensibilities and shallow brainpans of the people who now control the city.”
“There are times when the subway, like the city itself, seems so grotesque that, indeed, one wonders how this entire enterprise can continue to call itself human. Much less continue.”
Plus ça Change Department: Forty-four years ago, Alexander Cockburn reported that riding the New York City subways was worse than hiding in the tunnels during the London Blitz
The latest ridership numbers show that the MTA spent more than $300,000 for each new daily straphanger attracted by Cuomo’s much-heralded Upper East Side line
