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Subway station closed forever?

Paid for with private funds in 1986 -- when the misbegotten K train still ran -- the subway entrance at Eighth Avenue and 52nd Street has been gated and locked for nearly two decades.

It's been shut for so long New York City Transit on Thursday could not remember when or why it ordered the gates locked. Transit officials also couldn't say whether it will ever be open again.

"It's kind...

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