Posted on September 14, 2015 by Matt A.V. Chaban in The New York Times The New York Times, By Matt A.V. Chaban When she found herself on the subway on a sweltering August night two years ago, her two young children and their few belongings squeezed onto the hard plastic seats beside her, Nichelle Way had no idea where they were going. Her abusive ex-boyfriend had just thrown them out of his apartment, where they had been living for three months. When she called her family in York, Pa., they offered no help, only scolding. “We just got on the subway and started riding,” Ms. Way, 41, recalled last week. “It was the only place I could think of with air-conditioning.”
