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Crisis Spurs Overdue Action

Posted 5/4/20

The decision by Governor Cuomo, in a rare collaboration with Mayor de Blasio, to shut down subway service from 1 to 5 a.m. starting May 6 to allow for daily cleaning of trains and removal of the homeless from the system was as welcome as it was overdue.

Both men got a strong nudge to act from coverage by the city's tabloids of homeless denizens of the underground taking over subways cars and using them as sleeping quarters, storage facilities, and very public bathrooms.

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