Brooklyn Rapid Transit

Brooklyn RapidTransit

female
The Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (BRT) was a transportation holding company formed in 1896 to acquire and consolidate transit facilities in Kings...
Gene Russianoff

Gene Russianoff

male
Gene Russianoff is staff attorney and chief spokesman for the Straphangers Campaign for NYPIRG, a New York City-based public transport advocacy...
Maynard Jackson

Maynard Jackson

male, deceased (2003)
Maynard Holbrook Jackson, Jr. was an American politician, a member of the Democratic Party, and the first African American mayor of Atlanta,...

Norman D. Wilson

male
Norman D. Wilson was a Toronto-based transportation engineer who designed the Toronto subway, and created a design of a subway for Winnipeg in the...
Abba Hushi

Abba Hushi

male, deceased (1969)
Abba Hushi or Abba Khoushy. Hushi worked in road construction and swamp draining and was one of founders of Kibbutz Beit Alpha. He also...
Rosie Ruiz

Rosie Ruiz

female, 56 years old
Rosie Ruiz Vivas (born 1953, Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban American runner who on April 21, 1980 ostensibly came in as the first place female competitor...
Les Sampou

Les Sampou

female, 48 years old
Les Sampou (born November 4, 1961 in Norwalk, Connecticut) is an American folk singer/songwriter. She got her start singing in Boston's Haymarket...

Louis "red" Deutsch

male, deceased (1983)
Louis "Red" Deutsch (1895-1985) was a heavyweight boxer and later the owner of the "Tube Bar", a tavern in Jersey City, New Jersey that he started...