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Metro-North's White Plains newsstand vendor may fold up after 32 years

Originally published: February 12, 2013 4:28 PM
Updated: February 12, 2013 6:40 PM
By THOMAS ZAMBITO  thomas.zambito@cablevision.com

Mary Romano, right, of Mount Vernon, talks with

Photo credit: Xavier Mascarenas | Mary Romano, right, of Mount Vernon, talks with Gary Waxman, owner of Waxman's News in the White Plains Metro-North railroad station, while on her way to work in White Plains. (Feb. 12, 2013)

Gary Waxman knows which newspapers his customers pick up every morning, what kind of gum they chew and whether they missed their daily Metro-North commute from White Plains.

Waxman, like his father before him, has run Waxman's News, a 30-foot-wide newsstand at the White Plains train station, for 32 years, selling everything from newspapers to cigarettes, Red Bull to candy bars.

"My dad...

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