Ride any train in the city and you’re bound to see the signs - wallpapered across stations and on the insides of trains - warning passengers that they’re better off paying the $2.75 fare than the $100 fine, and directing them to use turnstiles to enter and exit the tunnels, as opposed to gates, which can easily be held open and passed through without paying. And I am not the only causality of the recent changes in the way New York handles its fares. As city changes go, this one could easily be mistaken as minor, but it was significant enough to earn me a $100 fine within minutes of setting foot in the city. But details were changed - one, notably, the way fares were collected for public buses. The shape of the city was the same, and it still had the intoxicating fast pace that I imagine has been part of the fabric of New York long before I was even born. I returned to New York City in the autumn of 2018 for the first time in nearly a decade.
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