Randy Kennedy has been a reporter at "The New York Times" for ten years. In 2001, "Tunnel Vision" won the New York State Associated Press Association award for best column. He lives in Brooklyn and takes the R train.
"On every page of this handsomely-written collection, Randy Kennedy
has taught me something new. Everything I cherish about the subways
is here: the underground community of solitude, the performers, the
lunatics, the sinister desperadoes, the professionals who move us
through those tunnels in speed and safety, along with the abiding
mysteries. If these pieces don't get the remaining subwayphobes out
of their stalled autos and into the city's greatest daily marvel,
nothing will."
- Pete Hamill
."..to read his notes from the underground (and the elevated) is to
know that Kennedy crafts city stories on a par with the marvelous
Joseph Mitchell's....he discovers Gotham at its scrappiest--the
most American place in America.. A"
- "Entertainment Weekly"
“On every page of this handsomely-written collection, Randy Kennedy
has taught me something new. Everything I cherish about the subways
is here: the underground community of solitude, the performers, the
lunatics, the sinister desperadoes, the professionals who move us
through those tunnels in speed and safety, along with the abiding
mysteries. If these pieces don't get the remaining subwayphobes out
of their stalled autos and into the city's greatest daily marvel,
nothing will."
- Pete Hamill
."..to read his notes from the underground (and the elevated) is to
know that Kennedy crafts city stories on a par with the marvelous
Joseph Mitchell's....he discovers Gotham at its scrappiest--the
most American place in America.. A"
- "Entertainment Weekly"
" On every page of this handsomely-written collection, Randy
Kennedy has taught me something new. Everything I cherish about the
subways is here: the underground community of solitude, the
performers, the lunatics, the sinister desperadoes, the
professionals who move us through those tunnels in speed and
safety, along with the abiding mysteries. If these pieces don't get
the remaining subwayphobes out of their stalled autos and into the
city's greatest daily marvel, nothing will."
- Pete Hamill
., ."to read his notes from the underground (and the elevated) is
to know that Kennedy crafts city stories on a par with the
marvelous Joseph Mitchell's....he discovers Gotham at its
scrappiest--the most American place in America.. A"
- "Entertainment Weekly"
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