Still, New York's many subway commuters found the tabloid format easier to handle, and readership steadily grew.

Tokyo's 5.8 million subway commuters are frightened after Monday's coordinated attacks on three Tokyo subway lines with the nerve gas sarin.

Two hundred subway commuters were smoothly evacuated from the Times Square station shortly after the main erupted.

The Coles have a large kitchen, too, where subway commuters pass by their window, entertaining them with snippets of cellphone conversations.

Every subway commuter knows this scene.

Filmed in Berlin, it shows armed military police directing startled subway commuters through a metal detector, and searching those who set off alarms.

Yet fans come straight from work, and more and more subway commuters have tablets and e-readers.

The sedan slowed for the hundreds of subway commuters emerging from the station, then crept to the far end of the lot.

About 84,000 subway commuters used the bridge every day on the BMT's J and M lines before the closing.

Many thanks to Paul Auster for his hymn to the subway commuter.