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Selected reporting

Written reporting on labor and public systems, from transit-worker safety to the people who keep New York moving.

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Reported series · Writing & field photography · 2025

Labor & Public Systems

Four stories about the workers who keep a city moving.

A reporting series on transit-worker safety, fare policy, street conflict between buses and delivery workers, and the uncertainty facing unpaid TSA officers during a federal shutdown.

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Members of Transport Workers Union Local 100 march in New York’s Labor Day Parade. — Members of Transport Workers Union Local 100 march in the Labor Day Parade on Sept. 6, 2025.

An MTA fare box inside a New York City bus. — An MTA fare box reminds passengers that a fare is required to ride.

A food-delivery rider waits beside a bus at an intersection. — A bus and a food-delivery rider wait together at a New York intersection.