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September 15, 2014 Amy K. Nelson

Another chapter unfolded Sunday afternoon in the long saga that is the underground, not-so-on-the-low service of $1 vans in this city when a woman leaped from one of the vans after cops targeted the driver. The unidentified woman jumped from a red Ford Econoline — with Jamaican flags tied to the front bumper and a […]

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July 2, 2014 Marina Galperina

Since the eleven-day transit strike of 1980, another transportation system formed in New York’s five boroughs — a network of unauthorized shuttle vans. After the bus and subway service returned, the vans remained in service, still charging a dollar to drive locals around in places where city transit was desperately lacking. The New Yorker created a […]

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