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'Everybody is very scared': Struggle to keep apart on subway

by Associated Press
| April 9, 2020 9:27 PM

NEW YORK (AP) — They let trains that look too crowded pass by. If they decide to board, they search for emptier cars to ride in. Then they size up fellow passengers before picking the safest spot they can find to sit or stand for commutes sometimes lasting an hour or more.

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