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Article: DRIVE TO CLEAN UP SUBWAYS FRUSTRATED PRISONER WHO CUT GENITALS HAS SURGERY LINDSAY HOSPITALIZED WITH HEART PROBLEMS FURTHERMORE ...(Local)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- January 24, 1990
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To the frustration of Transit Authority officials and the dismay of subway riders, a campaign to purge the subways of unruly homeless people has made no discernible headway after almost three months.
Subway riders say there seem to be as many homeless as ever lying on seats and benches or panhandling from car to car.
Transit policemen are rarely seen evicting vagrants. Horror stories of underground confrontations still abound.
One such story was that of a man who was waiting with his 3-year-old son at a station Sunday night when he was spat at and ...