The New York City subway and all mass transit into the city was shut down for Tuesday, and officials said it may be days before service returns.
Backed by FedEx and American Express, support for Small Business Saturday has never felt a stronger need than in the wake of Hurricane Sandy in which many storefronts on the East Coast lost power and customers as the subway system in New York City struggles to get back up and running again.
The BBC spoke to Tuwe about getting used to the city's subway and fast food as well as the challenges indigenous communities face from loggers and drug cartels.
In the comparative study of the cost of mass transit, analysts at Mercer selected the most convenient and popular means of transportation between bus and subway in a given city and gauged the price based upon a ride in the city center for one adult, according to the Mercer analysis team.
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Adding inactivity to injury, this is especially true in locations where many people exercise accompanied to music, airplanes (hey, it's hard to return those seats to their upright positions), the New York City subway system, and the streets of cities other than Mountain View, CA. Indeed, most WiFi-friendly environments are also laptop-friendly and thus support access to not only Yahoo Music and its competitors, but high-quality free internet radio from last.fm, Slacker, and others.
Last month saw the opening of a new high-speed rail line and the city's first subway.
The TWU's three-year contract with the MTA, which covers about 38, 000 workers on the city's bus and subway system, expired on Sunday.
Mr. Patrick ordered the city's subway and bus system to be shut down.
The MTA operates New York City's subway and bus system as well as an extensive regional transit network stretching into the suburbs, including the Metro-North and Long Island Rail Roads and the Staten Island Railway.
And in the short term, our subway system remains partially shut down, and many city residents and businesses still have no power.
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And when they're all completed, tentatively in 2019, they will bring subway and commuter rail service to vast, underserved stretches of the city, particularly the far East and West sides of Manhattan.
In some places, you can step out of the airport and onto the subway, into a taxi, into a rental car or onto a city bike with no cash on hand, since credit card machines are everywhere, from parking meters to food trucks.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg had announced the city's subway, buses and trains would be halted on Sunday night.
Transit and port officials in New York and New Jersey were on heightened alert at bridges, tunnels and on rail lines between the two states, as well as on New York City's subway system and commuter rails.
Many of them boast not just lower rates than hotels in Manhattan but also great views of the city skyline and easy access by subway, taxi or even ferry.
There is also a New York City subway station that connects to the terminal and dozens of shops and restaurants, including the venerable Oyster Bar.
Though Valley people pay high city taxes, the costly subway system barely reaches them, and most money for the schools, they feel, is sucked up before they see it.
She lives a few blocks from the theater and kept its doors open not only when Superstorm Sandy hit last year but also during the city's 2005 subway strike, picking up the actors and crew in her car.
Two deadly collapses in 2008 spurred reforms and even criminal charges, but another crane fell and killed a worker in the city just this past April, at a subway construction site largely exempt from city safety rules.
Life is slowly returning to normal in New York City, where the storm brought a record tidal surge that swamped the subway and caused widespread blackouts.
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Its announcement follows the completion of an earlier deal between the two companies to offer free WiFi in New York City, specifically at six subway stations and 200 other locations through September 7.
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The subway station the crew constructed in about six weeks features skylights and Art Deco columns that most closely resembled a station under City Hall that closed in 1945.
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