Why can’t New York fix its most hated train station?
The nation’s busiest transit hub stands as a symbol of inertia.
From The Times
November 26, 2025

The nation’s busiest transit hub stands as a symbol of a condition that afflicts so many attempts to get big things done in America: inertia.

A crowd of passengers, blurred in motion, walk along an underground train platform and up an escalator.

Todd Heisler/The New York Times

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