[New York Times]• State lawmakers who live hundreds of miles from New York City are in control of the subway’s future, even if they rarely ride it. [New York Times]• A Queens man was charged with trying to enter Syria to join ISIS. It grew into “an extravaganza of splashing aquabelles and aquabeaus, graceful skaters, comics and music,” The New York Times wrote in 1954. Follow the New York Today columnists, Alexandra Levine and Jonathan Wolfe, on Twitter. You can find the latest New York Today at nytoday.com.

Source: New York Times August 30, 2017 09:56 UTC