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  2. E-Brake, Radio Failures Led To NYC Subway Collision: Feds - Patch

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    NEW YORK CITY — An operator on a subway train with faulty brakes never received a flagger's instruction to stop moments before a New York City subway collision and derailment that left 25 people ...

  3. NYC Subway, Transit Crime Spikes Amid Adams' Tough Talk: Data

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    NEW YORK CITY — Growing concerns about subway safety have predominated Mayor Eric Adams' time in office literally from day one. Adams, a former transit cop, dialed 911 to report an assault he ...

  4. Transport Workers Union of America - Wikipedia

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    Membership (US records; ×1000) [1] Transport Workers Union of America (TWU) is a United States labor union that was founded in 1934 by subway workers in New York City, then expanded to represent transit employees in other cities, primarily in the eastern U.S. This article discusses the parent union and its largest local, Local 100, which ...

  5. 1960 New York mid-air collision - Wikipedia

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    1960 New York mid-air collision. /  40.56861°N 74.12194°W  / 40.56861; -74.12194. On December 16, 1960, a United Airlines Douglas DC-8 bound for Idlewild Airport (now John F. Kennedy International Airport) in New York City collided in midair with a TWA Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation descending toward LaGuardia Airport. [1]

  6. King County Metro - Wikipedia

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    King County Metro, officially the King County Metro Transit Department and often shortened to Metro, is the public transit authority of King County, Washington, which includes the city of Seattle. It is the eighth-largest transit bus agency in the United States. In 2023, the system had a ridership of 78,121,600, or about 256,200 per weekday as ...

  7. Graffiti in New York City - Wikipedia

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    Graffiti began appearing around New York City with the words "Bird Lives" [1] but after that, it took about a decade and a half for graffiti to become noticeable in NYC. So, around 1970 or 1971, TAKI 183 and Tracy 168 started to gain notoriety for their frequent vandalism. [2] Using a naming convention in which they would add their street ...

  8. 2021 New York City mayoral election - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The 2021 New York City mayoral election was held on November 2, 2021. Incumbent Mayor Bill de Blasio was term-limited and ineligible to run for re-election. On June 22, 2021, the primary elections for the Democratic and Republican primaries were held. The 2021 primaries were the first New York City mayoral election primaries to use ranked ...

  9. MTA Regional Bus Operations - Wikipedia

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    MTA Regional Bus Operations ( RBO) is the surface transit division of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). It was created in 2008 to consolidate all bus operations in New York City operated by the MTA. As of February 2018, MTA Regional Bus Operations runs 234 local routes, 71 express routes, and 20 Select Bus Service routes.