{"value"=>"<p>These files were compiled by Joseph Rappaport, who was the Coordinator of the Straphangers Campaign from the early-1980s until the late 1990s. They consist of correspondence, press releases, flyers, public hearing testimony, occasional clippings, MTA literature and reports, notes and photographs. The largest portion of the series covers various issues regarding the subway system: lines and stations, the Straphangers Campaign State of the Subways surveys, subway announcements, free speech in the system, newsstands in stations (including photographs), automatic fare collection, and other subjects. There is also documentation of several MTA bus issues, as well as a set of \"complaint letters\" (letters sent by citizens to the MTA (some with responses), with copies sent to the Campaign; more such letters are in Series III and subseries V.D). Three Straphangers Campaign protest events from the mid-1980s are covered, as are the minutes from several years' worth of Campaign meetings. The earliest papers in this series, dating from 1962 and 1963, are correspondence between Charles Treuhold and the MTA regarding the planned Second Avenue subway line. It is not known how these letters came to be in the Rappaport Files.</p>"}