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Why New York Subway Lines Are Missing Countdown Clocks
There are people who stand every morning outside the Carroll Street station in Brooklyn staring dead-eyed into the middle distance. They stand still in ones and twos, clearly strangers to one another, mostly quiet, as though they’d stopped on their way to work to take note of some spectacular disaster in the sky. But you look in the general direction they’re all looking and there’s nothing there.
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The Lowdown on the Lowline, the World's First Underground Park
An MTA official walked up to the inconspicuous metal gate on the Essex St. subway platform one winter day in early 2009. Around him, people milled, waiting for the train. They didn’t notice as he slid the lock and led two men down a staircase, through a passageway beneath the tracks, and to the other side.
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Subway has agreed to start measuring its sandwiches
Subway in the US has agreed to start measuring its 6-inch and 12-inch sandwiches as part of the settlement to a class action lawsuit. The lawsuit came about after a customer proved that Subway had misrepresented its sandwiches by selling so-called foot-long sandwiches that were not 12-inches long. Subway has agreed keep a tool for measuring bread in each of its restaurants for at least four years and have monthly...
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Subway Founder Fred DeLuca Dies at Age 67
Fred DeLuca, cofounder of one of the world’s most well known brands, died Monday evening at the age of 67, just weeks after celebrating the business’s 50th anniversary. DeLuca and his business partner, Dr. Peter Buck, opened their submarine sandwich in Connecticut in 1965 when DeLuca was only 17 years old. In 2013, while traveling around to visit with franchisees, DeLuca fell ill and was ultimately diagnosed with Leukemia.
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Jared Fogle sues ex-foundation leader over unpaid loan
The Indianapolis home where authorities say some child pornography images were secretly recorded is the subject of a lawsuit filed on behalf of former Subway sandwich pitchman Jared Fogle. Fogle alleges that Russell C. Taylor, a one-time friend who headed Fogle’s charitable foundation, defaulted on an agreement to repay a 2014 loan Taylor used to buy the home.
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Subway May Have Been Warned About Jared As Early As 2008
There's mounting evidence that Subway's shock at the news of Jared's sexual proclivities could've been fabricated: Ex-franchisee Cindy Mills claims she complained about Fogle to a Subway executive in 2008 — during what you might call Jared's salad days — but says the executive blew her off. Mills says that Fogle sent her texts saying he was interested in sex with minors, and had even paid for prostitutes as young as 9 years old.
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FBI informant ‘relieved’ after helping take down 'monster’ Jared Fogle
An informant who worked with the FBI for years to take down Subway’s Jared Fogle opened up about his arrest on Thursday. “I’m numb. I’m shocked. I’m relieved most of all,” Rochelle Herman-Walrond told ABC7. She initially thought Fogle would be charged only for child pornography but wasn’t surprised when he was also charged for “sex acts with children.”
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Former Subway spokesman Jared Fogle to plead guilty to child pornography charges
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (Aug. 18, 2015)— FOX59 has confirmed Jared Fogle, the former Subway spokesman, is expected to plead guilty to possession of child pornography charges. Sources say Fogle will acce...
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MTA finds extra $1 billion, plans to spend on reducing wait times
The MTA found a billion dollars in extra cash in its proverbial couch cushions. The cash is a combination of real estate tax income, less money paid out to pensions, lower energy costs...
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Subway Station Hits Blazing 106 Degrees
The hottest day of the year so far didn't just bring sweltering conditions to the streets in New York City -- subway riders suffered underground, too.
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Jared Fogle and Subway part ways amid child porn inquiry - BBC News
Subway suspends its relationship with its long time spokesman Jared Fogle after authorities searched his home as part of a child pornography case.
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'Subway guy' Jared Fogle's home raided in child porn investigation: Reports
The former director of the Jared Foundation was arrested for child porn.
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Subway pitchman Jared Fogle’s home raided in child porn bust
FBI agents raided Subway pitchman Jared Fogle's Indiana home amid a child porn investigation Tuesday.
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ISIS plot uncovered to attack U.S., Paris subways, Iraq PM Haider al-Abadi says
Iraq's prime minister said Thursday that captive Islamic State in Iraq and Syria militants told his intelligence agents of an alleged plot to attack subways in the United States and Paris. A senior Obama administration official said no one in the U.S. government is aware of such a plot, adding that the claim was never brought up in meetings with Iraqi officials this week in New York. U.S. President Barack Obama met with Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi Wednesday.
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New York City's Subway System Is Facing An Unprecedented Bedbug Problem
A terrifying report from the New York Daily News claims that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's subway bedbug issue is more widespread than officials are willing to admit. Unnamed "transit sources" told the Daily News that there were at least 21 reported bedbug sightings on NYC subways in August, which a transportation union official said is unprecedented.
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Meet the People Who Retrieve the Stuff You Drop On the Tracks
Lost and Underground: Meet the People Who Retrieve the Stuff You Drop On the Tracks
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The Fight to Find John Wilkes Booth’s Diary in a Forgotten Subway Tunnel
On a quiet evening in December 2010, Robert Diamond was watching television in his apartment, tucking into a bowl of franks and beans, when the telephone rang. There was an angry voice on the other end of the line: “You’re trying to dig up that damn locomotive again!” It was an official at New York City’s Department of Transportation
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Be Glad You're Not a Beijing Commuter
If you're visiting the Chinese capital, this could be a good time to take taxis. Fed up with your commute? Be thankful you don’t live in Beijing. Chinese officials this week stepped up security at subway stations across the Chinese capital, leaving commuters languishing in epic (read: even longer than usual) lines.
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Man Rescued Girl From Subway Tracks While Everyone Else Took Photos
NYU food service employee Joshua Garcia was standing on a Union Square subway platform with his coworkers and hundreds of other commuters when a teenage girl blacked out and fell onto the subway tracks Wednesday evening. While everyone else gawked and documented the frightening incident, Garcia jumped down onto the trackbed.
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