Quote:For as long as there have been subway tracks, New Yorkers — haggard, perpetually busy and forever jostling for space — have been dropping things on them.
But in recent years, the workers say, the rigors of the job have multiplied, with smartphone proliferation and in-station Wi-Fi producing a more distracted ridership and sending more phones tumbling to the tracks.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/15/nyregion/subway-heroes-come-to-the-rescue-of-fallen-treasures.html?_r=0
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