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It Went By in a Blur: PATH's 100th Anniversary (NYC)

You couldn’t miss the 100th anniversary of the New York City subway in 2004. There were speeches, banners, slogans, displays, events and a shelf full of books to mark the milestone for posterity: “Subways,” “A Century of Subways,” “Subwayland,” “Subway Memoirs,” “The Subway Pictures,” “Subway Style,” “The Subway and the City.”

But you might easily have missed the centenary of New York’s other subway on Monday.

PATH? One hundred years old?
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