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Train Santas, New York, New York, 1987

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With an annual ridership exceeding a billion patrons, the New York City subway system gets it share of oddities throughout the year. Here, three Santas forego their sleighs in favor of an underground commute.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Broadway, Street of Dreams," September 1990, National Geographic magazine)

Photograph by Jodi Cobb

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