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Northeast Corridor

American  

noun

  1. the long, narrow strip of land between Boston, New York City, and Washington, D.C., containing many adjacent urban areas.


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Meteorologists issued blizzard warnings for New York and parts of at least six states, warning Saturday that heavy snow and gale-force winds are forecast to slam all major cities along the densely populated Interstate 95 northeast corridor, including Boston, Philadelphia, and even Washington further south.

From Barron's

Meteorologists issued blizzard warnings for New York and parts of at least six states, warning Saturday that heavy snow and gale-force winds are forecast to slam all major cities along the densely populated Interstate 95 northeast corridor, including Philadelphia, Boston and even Washington further south.

From Barron's

Northeast corridor: Some Dodgers players could get very familiar with a Philadelphia-New York commute next summer.

From Los Angeles Times

That’s important to understanding how Levy, the mathematics Ph.D. at New York University’s Transit Costs Project, figured out how we can fix the Northeast Corridor and deliver world-class transportation to the 50 million residents of America’s biggest megaregion.

From Slate

According to the Transit Costs Project, more than 20 percent of travel time on the Northeast Corridor is “padding”—as anyone who has endured the 15-minute break in the bowels of Penn Station can understand—compared with 7 percent on well-run systems in Europe.

From Slate