Episode #154 -- New York Subways

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DATE : Tue, 12 May 2009 07:13:00 GMT
Entered in Database : 2009-05-12 07:13:00
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Tuesday, May 12, 2009.  Twenty years ago today, the last graffiti-covered subway car on the New York City system was retired from service.  I talk about the efforts to clean up graffiti on the NYC subways in the late 1980s, and how that changed the image of the subways (and the city itself) for people like me who knew about "The Big Apple" from nothing but TV shows.

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