keeping our twenty-first century subway humming

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These electrical cable enclosures, which appeared almost exactly at eye level, easily amused me while I was waiting on the N/R platform at 42nd Street yesterday. It's amazing that the system somehow manages to work - most of the time - in spite of its patches and scars.

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Published on August 15, 2006 7:48 PM.

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