Dollar Vans: Inside NYC's Huge, Hidden Transit Network

It's just past 10 a.m. on a Tuesday. Outside the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, cars and cabs zip down Flatbush Avenue in classic New York style: accelerate, stop, honk, repeat

The man we're here to see, Winston Williams, is a few blocks north

"I'm doing a U-turn. I'll be there in 20 seconds," he tells us over the phone, before abruptly hanging up

Twenty seconds later, traffic be damned, a white van skids to the curb in front of us. Although nobody's in the back seat, the sliding door still opens. Winston's up front, smiling beneath thick dreadlocks and navy blue sunglasses

"All right, guys. Get in." Read more...