What the Subway Means to New Yorkers

The Brian Lehrer Show | Apr 28, 2022

Qian Julie Wang, civil rights litigator and managing partner of Gottlieb & Wang LLP, author of Beautiful Country: A Memoir of an Undocumented Childhood (Doubleday, 2021) and a recent op-ed in The New York Times titled “I Treasure the Life I Live in the Subway. And I Am Afraid of Losing It”, discusses her recent op-ed on why the New York City subway represents so many things in New Yorkers lives.

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