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The Secret Lives of Subways (opens the original)
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It’s midnight on a steamy August day and Christopher Payne is standing in the middle of a Brooklyn-bound lane of the Battery Tunnel, a mischievous smile on his face. Forty years ago, as a college student at Columbia, Payne says, he would occasionally appropriate a subway-station sign. “Now, here I am,” he says, “getting paid by the MTA to go places I shouldn’t.” The tube is closed to cars so that its 400,000 wall tiles can be cleaned — and so that Payne, who for the past 20 years has built a vas
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