The Daily: The Sunday Read: 'The Case for the Subway'

The New York Times The New York Times 3/14/21 - Episode Page

Long before it became an archaic and filthy symbol of everything wrong with America’s broken cities, the New York subway was a marvel.

In recent years, it has been falling apart.

Today on The Sunday Read, a look at why failing to fix it would be a collective and historic act of self-destruction. 

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