The New York City subway has more than four hundred stations, eight hundred miles of track, six thousand cars, and, on any given weekday, five million passengers.
And on a recent weekday, four people showed up; slightly more play on weekends, according to the staff.
With a degree came the offer of a job at the Manchester Evening News, then one of the country's most powerful provincial newspapers and, with its eight editions every weekday, one of the most demanding.
At a time when subway ridership has eclipsed five million on an average weekday, seven expected mayoral candidates took care to advertise their straphanger credentials at a transit forum on Friday night.
On a recent weekday, two bored salesmen sat at a desk at the building's entrance trying without much success to draw interest in the building owner's coming stock offering.
On a recent weekday, one of the liveliest contests was on Court 2, where an older man was running a much younger player ragged and whipping him in a succession of games.
And for the rest of the week… Freeze leftover tortillas, or use them to make quesadillas on a weekday: two of my favourites are pea, mint and feta or chorizo, thyme and new potato.
On most weekdays, five boats carry some 65,000 passengers the 5.2 miles between Manhattan and Staten Island in a total of 104 trips.
On weekdays, five trains leave Fairfield between 7 and 8 a.m., with the fastest arriving at Grand Central in 71 minutes.
They will be asked to record the number of total steps taken each day for six days – four weekday and two weekend days.
