New York, United States of America
GRAFFITI ON SUBWAY TRAINS WITH BUDGET CONCERNS IN NEW YORK.
Graffiti waits to be cleaned from a subway train on April 18, 2003. One
of the world's most vibrant and most visited cities is fighting a
fiscal crisis not seen since it teetered on bankruptcy nearly three
decades ago, prompting such newspaper headlines as "It's already
feeling a lot like the '70s crisis" that fill New Yorkers with
foreboding. New York, often called the "capital of the world," has been
sapped of money and morale by the slumping global economy, coming on
top of the Sept. 11, 2001, hijacked plane attacks and expensive
round-the-clock security alerts. REUTERS/Chip
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