Jessica Alfieri

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• Exceedingly Bad Odds

  The fine for jumping the turnstile and saving yourself two dollars is sixty dollars.  How many New Yorkers are stupid enough to make that gamble?

  85,000, evidently (from whom $7.2 million in fines was collected this year).

  I find it hard to believe that your typical turnstile jumper averages thirty successful jumps for every fine, which is the only way to make this crime not even pay, but break even.

  I don’t know any jumpers, let alone habitual ones.  Anyone out there want to fill us in?

  (via Second Avenue Sagas)

  Jun 25, 2008 MTA New York subway turnstile jumper

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