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9/11/01: When the subways went still

911-anniversary

It was standing room only on the No. 1 train, like so many other weekday mornings, when Robert Rios started inching toward the metal doors under lower Manhattan yesterday.

The train was pulling into Chambers Street, and the first-year math student at Borough of Manhattan Community College wanted to beat the rush to the stairs.

"The doors opened and somebody said, 'There's a bomb in the...

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