11. Greatness rides the subway The Yankees have won one game against the Rangers, but already two themes have emerged in New York. 12. He and his girlfriend, while riding the subway, were held up at knifepoint by three muggers. 13. He grew up riding the subway, but he did not collect models or have fantasies of being a motorman. 14. He rides the subway. 15. He used to ride the subway with Thurgood Marshall, who lived a block over on Edgecombe Avenue. 16. He rode the subway. 17. His most vivid memory is of his first day on the job, riding the subway and holding in his lap a brown paper bag with bras spilling out. 18. I say, there are socially conscious New Yorkers who ride the subways. 19. If you think that sounds mean-spirited, you, too, have not ridden the subways lately. 20. In New York back in mid-century, Yankees and Dodgers commonly rode the subway to work. |