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The 98-year-old Daily News was once a mighty voice of New York’s working class, and a familiar accessory of straphanging commuters in the great metropolis.

From Washington Post • Sep. 5, 2017

Wasted on the majority of its 600,000 straphanging readers is the Evening Journal's alert financial section run by able, aggressive Leslie Gould.

From Time Magazine Archive

It would be difficult to think of a figure from whom a series of signed articles would find greater favor with Manhattan newspaper readers, particularly straphanging readers.

From Time Magazine Archive

In a Copenhagen streetcar a passenger stared at a straphanging couple, suddenly bellowed: "I think it's a shame this country's future king and queen have to stand up!"

From Time Magazine Archive

There is no straphanging: standing passengers hold on to bars.

From Time Magazine Archive