A Disgusting Practice Vanishes With the Token by RANDY KENNEDY  [  from The New York Times  ] In five days, when the last New York City subway token slides through the slot of the last booth to sell them, few people will notice and fewer will care. There will be no official ceremony to mark the passing. If there is music in the background, it will not be taps; it will be the bleating song that turnstiles sing to valid MetroCards. But off in a corner, hidden in the shadows where things begin to smell bad, at least a few observers will notice and care quite a lot. They belong to a sad and desperate breed of criminal that has been in decline for a long time, one that will soon become as irrelevant as bootleggers and horse thieves. Officially, the crime is classified as theft of Transit Authority property. But among transit police officers it is more accurately and less delicately known as token sucking. Continued… 990000 BCKN Brown Glasses Chromogenic Exit Wound Ftrain Gothamist Lightningfield Meccapixel Orbit 1 Rion.nu Partyka Slatch Slower Still Films Synster The Morning News Vague Way to Blue More… PREVIOUS –  [  April 13, 2003  | Don’t Fuck With Geneva  |  Nikon D100   ]  – NEXT

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