As I said, this was under the financial district, underground in a subway station, with 50-story buildings on top of us.
Flying debris struck several people in the central business district and subway stations around the territory were converted into temporary shelters to accommodate dozens of stranded passengers.
Water topped the sea wall in New York's financial district and flooded subway tunnels.
The messy battle for the future of urban transportation is playing out in the gridlocked and bike-cluttered streets and sidewalks of the District — and the subway tunnels underneath it.
The walls of the small, cluttered, sixth-floor office of All Over Messenger Service at 566 Seventh Avenue, just south of Times Square, are lined with maps: Midtown Manhattan, the financial district, Greenwich Village, the subway system.
Now Shanghai, Guangzhou and Tianjin have tunneled under heavily populated residential districts to install subway systems.
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS HOUSE TOUR The city's first historic district lies just a subway stop from Manhattan, across the East River.
His district includes a major subway car manufacturing plant in Hornell, which had led some Ravitch backers to single him out as a possible supporter.
Indeed, Mr. Norman is spending his days on the streets of the district, greeting voters at subway stations in the morning and meeting with civic associations in the evenings.
The other, which may matter a good deal more, passed almost unremarked.On February 27th, almost nine years after the Aum Shinrikyo cult shocked Japan by launching a poison-gas attack in a Tokyo subway, a district court judge delivered his verdict on the cult's leader.
