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53rd and 3rd avenue escalator long neglected
A privately owned subway escalator below 53rd Street and Third Avenue has been broken for at least a year, according to straphangers and city records, yet it's difficult to find anyone who will claim responsibility for it.
"They don't maintain it," William McKeever, 75, said recently after struggling up the stairs near the escalator at 875 Third Ave. with his cane.
"That's a hell of...
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