A1 A judge refused to grant immunity to one of the four youths shot by Bernhard H. Goetz on a Manhattan subway.

As jury selection began yesterday, lawyers for Edward J. Leary said he never intended to hurt anyone in a lower Manhattan subway firebombing that injured 48 people.

On Manhattan subways, most of the grand larcenies occur below 59th Street on the west side and below 86th Street to the east.

Another official said, "It's midday on a Manhattan subway, and you had the cross-section of the world you find there, and he's just a piece of that cross-section."

A night in jail and a day's sentencing to community service in the Manhattan subway resulted from the bust.

So they turned to pristine white ceramic tiles (a), reminiscent of those used in the Manhattan subways, shown here in a 1904 photograph (b).

Last year, he rented an airy 2,500-square-foot space on a busy street between two Manhattan subway stops.

A man who had been stabbed several times in the chest and back collapsed in a Lower Manhattan subway station after stepping off the N train yesterday morning, the police said.

She has chosen to read a powerful poem about an encounter with an underprivileged black teen-ager on a Manhattan subway.

An explosion in a Manhattan subway last night left a transit worker seriously injured and disrupted train service along the N and R lines for nearly 45 minutes, transit officials said.