The New York Pizza Connection
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The Pizza Connection is the humorous but historically accurate "economic law" proposed by New Yorker Eric Bram, who noted in 1980 that from the early 1960's, the price of a plain pizza slice matched the cost of a New York City Subway ride "with uncanny precision."[1] The New York Times wrote in 2005 that the "Bram Rule" has continued to bear itself out to the degree that many New Yorkers see it almost as a proven theory of economics.[2]
It has become traditional for New York newspapers to refer to this phenomenon whenever an increase in subway fares is imminent.
[edit] References
- ^ http://bestpizzany.wetpaint.com/page/Pizza+and+Subway+Tokens
- ^ "Digging Deep for a Slice of the Pie," by Clyde Haberman, New York Times, June 21, 2005
