In 2014, the city's annual survey found 3,357 homeless people on the streets and subways.
A Manhattan Home Depot store sold about twice as many shovels over the weekend as it normally does while transit officials hoping to keep the subways running smoothly planned to use modified subway cars loaded with de-icing fluid to spray the third rail that powers trains.
But regular Gulliver readers will know that the cost-per-mile of building subways (or, really, any new infrastructure) in America is dramatically higher than it is in other developed countries.
Mobility would be provided by trains, subways and ride-sharing schemes instead.
Why do we think that a system in which ads for Claritin are all over the subways will generate better overall health results than one where a national review board determines whether Claritin delivers treatment outcomes for some populations sufficiently superior to justify its added expense over similar generics?
At City Hall rallies unfold on behalf of clinics, schools, subways and so on.
The entire financial district was coated with ash so thick that it permeated the subways, forcing trains to turn off their air-conditioning as they passed below.
And he is also forcing the department to focus more on the most serious risks.Despite last week's horrors in London, preventing conventional bomb attacks on subways is only a middling priority.
Passengers complained that their trips were dark, dank and dangerous, that the foul air left them coughing "like a boy with his first cigar .Thanks to the genius of Thomas Edison, the subways in New York and Boston were well lit.
The DoT is already encouraging plans to build housing near transport, expand access to buses, subways and bicycles, and reduce emissions in the process.Still, a main question remains unanswered.
So entreaties to pause and consider the engineering marvels running under London and New York may strike the natural audience for these books as perverse.Yet subways have literally shaped both cities.
