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The article discusses the advantages of seating at the last row of Section 323, Row Z, at the Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York City. Topics discussed include the opportunity for fans to see two expansive views which are the match at the stadium below and the city's landscape behind them, the more relaxed atmosphere at the upper tiers as fans at the courtside are expected to be quieter during games, and the lower costs of seats at Row Z.

The article focuses on the growing interest in solo polyamory, where individuals like James Nicholson choose to date multiple people simultaneously without the intention of pursuing exclusive partnerships, marriage, shared finances, or cohabitation.

The article mentions broken escalators at the subway station in Manhattan, New York City and discusses figures released by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority on the condition of the subway system in New York from 2012 to 2018.

The article reports that Jack Evans was a summer intern in 1976, the year Metro, the capital region's subway system, opened to rave reviews. It was an architectural triumph, with escalators that plunged into clean, well-lit stations. The Federal Transit Administration has issued a blistering indictment of the system, warning in a June report of serious safety lapses. The system was to be a visual statement about the power and prestige of the American government.

The article discusses study revealing boarding an escalator two by two and standing side by side is the better approach for using escalator, and comments from Paul Wiedefeld of Metro, that the practice of walking on the left and standing to the right could damage the escalator.

The article reports on the experiment conducted by the Holborn Station in London, England which suggested to people to stand side by side in escalators and do not walk up to prevent the traffic in the underground station.

This article reports on transit-construction projects in New York City that are over budget and behind schedule. A new report from engineering consultants hired by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority have found these problems in many elevator and escalator projects throughout the subway system.

Officials with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority were trying on Wednesday to determine to what extent an escalator that they had hoped to replace at a Long Island Rail Road station may have caused the death of an 88-year-old woman. Irene Bernatzky died on Tuesday afternoon after she fell down the escalator at the Lindenhurst station, choking to death when her clothes got entangled in the escalator's treads, according to a preliminary investigation and autopsy, said Sam Zambuto, a Long Island Rail Road spokesman. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At the Delancey Street subway station in Manhattan, the escalator works so infrequently that Karen Lee Benson tries to avoid using that stop unless her husband is with her. Consider the alternative: a 60-stair hike to the street with her two sons under 3 and their strollers. At the Flushing Avenue station in Brooklyn, the elevator is out 91 percent of the time. So Annette Duncan, 68, who has to use a walker because she has a pin in one knee, often takes a bus to another station nearby. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SO this is the best restaurant in New York City: Per Se, in the Time Warner Center, just up the escalator from the mall, a jewel amid the zirconia. I make the argument unreservedly. I have eaten in restaurants five or more nights a week for the last two years, always in search of the best and most delectable, the most interesting and important. And I have come back again and again to Per Se to find it. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority may be criticized for its weekend service suspensions, broken escalators and packed L trains. But don't ever call it unfashionable. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THERE has always been something erotically charged about elevators. The tightness of the space, the evocative enclosure, the tension arising from keeping one's gaze from meeting another's -- all contribute to the frisson that can sometimes accompany a ride, even from the ground floor to the mezzanine. The following poems about elevators -- and other modes of up-and-down conveyance, like stairs and escalators (which work on a different erotic principle) -- were found last week in the Missed Connections section of newyork.craigslist.org. They are printed verbatim, with only line and stanza breaks added; their titles are the subject headings. Same Building -- Different Floors [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Coming off the elevator and into the lobby at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan, an elderly woman could not resist. ''Wow, he's a giant,'' she said with a laugh. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WASHINGTON -- Late for work, Cassandra Jackson hurried through the Washington subway the other week only to confront a broken escalator that was supposed to carry her to the street. Exactly 351 steps later she made it to the top. ''I'm going to have a heart attack,'' she said at the top of the stairs, hands on her knees and sweat on her forehead. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The subway escalators that run under the brick high-rise at the corner of East 15th Street in Union Square have long been in a near-constant state of disrepair. The developer of the building, a condominium named Zeckendorf Towers, built the escalators in the 1980s as a public benefit in exchange for approvals to develop the site. As part of the deal, the condominium association was responsible for the machinery's maintenance. But the escalator agreement did not provide for any enforcement of that upkeep, and the machinery spent years in various stages of idleness. Not until last year, following several news articles and pressure by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority did the owners replace them with modern, industrial-strength versions. Maxwell-Kates Inc., which manages the building, declined to comment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A 4-year-old girl fell more than 20 feet down an elevator shaft on the Upper East Side on Wednesday afternoon, fire officials said. The girl, who was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries, was getting onto an elevator at 435 East 85th Street about 2:30 p.m. when she fell into a gap between the elevator and the landing and plummeted 20 to 25 feet to the basement, fire officials said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Traffic court. To get to the one on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, you go to a big mall that all the subways on Earth run to, take the escalator up to the second floor and walk in one end of the Target, then out the other. There you are: the Traffic Violations Bureau for Brooklyn North. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

DEAR DIARY: On my first day back to work after my vacation, I am on the escalator transferring to the No. 6 downtown local train from the No. 4 express. Heading down the stairs, I notice, is Mayor Bloomberg. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority's experiment to introduce 35 ''green'' escalators in four subway stations started with a lurch on Monday. In some places, it didn't start at all. Escalators at the 34th Street-Herald Square and Roosevelt Island stations in Manhattan and the Jamaica-Van Wyck and Jamaica Center-Parsons/Archer stations in Queens were to begin operating at variable speed, as part of a pilot program to save energy and reduce wear and tear. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The 169 escalators throughout New York City's subway system are not known for running smoothly -- each averaged 68 breakdowns or repair calls last year -- and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority now says it has a partial solution. Starting on Monday, 35 recently installed escalators at four stations will start operating at variable speeds as part of a pilot program. The escalators, which use infrared motion sensors, will slow to just 15 feet per minute when no one is on them, compared with the normal full speed of 100 feet per minute. The escalators will gradually accelerate to the full speed, over a few seconds, once a rider steps on. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

NEW YORK subway escalators are notorious for their fitfulness. But a pair of escalators on 14th Street, at an eastern entrance to the Union Square station, are especially notable for the persistence of their disrepair. Dust balls have grown in the grooves on their steps, where plastic bags, cigarette butts and newspapers have found a semipermanent home. Indecipherable graffiti tags cover their plexiglass sides. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

If one foot wasn't on a sure step, I would have fallen in, and I would have been eaten up by the escalator. LISA CHIOU, who was injured when a Manhattan subway escalator broke apart last year. [A19] [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

New York City Transit has spent close to $1 billion to install more than 200 new elevators and escalators in the subway system since the early 1990s, and it plans to spend almost that much again for dozens more machines through the end of the next decade. It is an investment of historic dimensions, aimed at better serving millions of riders and opening more of the subway to the disabled. These are the results: [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Riding an escalator is not ordinarily considered risky, but a new study reports that from 1991 to 2005, nearly 40,000 people older than 65 were injured while doing so, an average of 2,660 a year. The rate of injury more than doubled in that period -- to 11 per 100,000 population in 2005, the latest year for which figures are available, from 4.9 in 1991. There were no fatalities, but more than 2,500 people were hospitalized, mostly for broken bones. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article offers information on the decision of New York City Transit Authority to post the list of New York City's non-working subway escalators and elevators, on its website on daily basis. It is mentioned that the city residents face the problem of non working escalators daily and the prior information will help in avoiding the unpleasant surprise faced by the riders especially the disabled riders. The web site would be updated thrice daily and information on future plans is also presented.

The article discusses poor maintenance in New York City subway stations. Problems often include broken escalators and improperly working loudspeakers, both of which often remain in disrepair for months at a time. A riders' advocacy group known as the Straphangers Campaign is working to remedy the situation.

Discusses the complication of replacing the escalators at the Empire State building in New York City.

Reports on the subway elevators and escalators installed in New York state. Reliability figures of the transits; Explanation of transit officials on the defects of the transits; Complexities of the transits.

Reports on the partly severed toes of a three year old girl when her foot was caught in an subway station escalator at Lexington Avenue. Name of girl; How accident occurred.

Reports that the two escalators inside the West Fourth Street subway station in New York, were closed by the New York City Transit in March 1998. Cost to replace the escalators which date back to 1970; Complaints from residents; Comments from Termaine Garden, a spokesman for the transit authority.

States that as a result of delays in installing subway escalators, merchants on Roosevelt Avenue, New York City are preparing for five additional months of fewer customers. When three escalators, part of a renovation of the Main Street station were scheduled to be installed; Value of the renovation; Factors relating to the delays.