The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system that serves four of the five boroughs of New York City, New York: the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens. Its operator is the New York City Trans
New York City Subway R1 car at the 23rd Street station, on a holiday train special in December 2007
Charles Harvey demonstrating his elevated railroad design on Greenwich Street in 1867
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Subway construction in the Bowery, 1901
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The Guardian Angels is an American nonprofit volunteer organization with the goal of unarmed crime prevention. The organization was founded by Curtis Sliwa in New York City on February 14, 1979.
History of the New York City Subway
…to reduce crime or at least an improvement in the subjective sense of security. At night, the railway police and members of the citizens' initiative Guardian Angels, formed in 1979, patrolled in the subway trains. In the 1990s, the crime in the city and its subway declined significantly. In 1956, the NYCTA chairman…
Curtis Sliwa, the founder of the Guardian Angels
Guardian Angels in a Metrorail station in Miami
Calgary, Alberta, on March 24, 2007: A group of Guardian Angel trainees went on a final training patrol, the day before their expected graduation. They toured the east side of the downtown area.