Adventure Capital. Julie Kleinman

maneuvered it to the sidewalk.

      Lassana and his friends always paid homage to the importance of the station’s history, positing themselves as the heirs of an international vision that has existed from the station’s foundation. As black men in France, they have also inherited the label of the “dangerous classes,” a term that continues to have currency in French media and political speech. They stand at the crossroads of the question that has long guided the history of the station: Should the Gare du Nord be a space of progress and potential, or might it herald the undoing of society? And what role will they play in either case?