At the Jay Street station, Bedford-Stuyvesant student Shaniqua Robinson, 18, who rides the C to school in Queens, cataloged the train's failings.

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And on the street that I was staying, they were playing mostly Jay-Z and all kinds of hip-hop, the stuff that you would hear on the radio here.

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