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Tori Venable, Tennessee state director of Americans for Prosperity, left, helping volunteers in Nashville prepare for canvassing against a mass-transit proposal. CreditWilliam DeShazer for The New York Times NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A team of political activists huddled at a Hardee’s one rainy Saturday, wolfing down a breakfast of biscuits and gravy. Then they descended on…
close story-meta Photo Firefighters arrived on Eighth Avenue near the scene of a reported explosion on Monday morning in Manhattan. Credit David Scull/The New York Times A peaceful beginning to the workweek was shattered Monday after an explosion rattled through one of the busiest transit hubs in New York City, causing the authorities to evacuate…
close story-meta Photo Rich Gilberto endured a two-hour commute on the day in 2015 when the subways had the most riders ever. “You can’t call it an express train if it stops a dozen times in the tunnel,” Mr. Gilberto wrote on Twitter. Credit Mark Makela for The New York Times Over the last two…
An Alternative Plan Michael Kimmelman, New York Times architecture critic Train stations are more than just a bunch of platforms for getting places. They’re portals. New York used to have two of the world’s most ennobling entrances, announcing the city in all its ambition and glory, Grand Central Terminal and the…