1.   A token clerk, Harry P. Kaufman, died on Sunday from burns sustained in the arson attack.

2.   Cook, who has been a token clerk for two years, refused, Chief Donohue said.

3.   His father was a subway token clerk.

4.   I try to pause for idle conversation with the token clerk, the coffee vendor, but they look at me like I have a screw loose.

5.   In a second incident on Sunday, a man was arrested after lighting a match and threatening a token clerk with it, the police said.

6.   It comes two weeks after a Brooklyn token clerk died from burns received in an attack on his booth.

7.   On one hand, he said, banking by phone makes his life easier, and how many token clerks are really interested in a conversation with him?

8.   On Sunday, a token clerk was critically burned when attackers sprayed liquid in his booth and set it on fire in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.

9.   Officials said they hoped that they could carry out the future cuts painlessly with expansion of the Metrocard program, which would reduce the need for token clerks.

10.   One purpose of the subway Metrocard is to eliminate contact with token clerks.