Figures like Justice Sonia Sotomayor, James Baldwin, and Maya Angelou’s take center stage in the artist’s new MTA mosaics for the 167th Street station.
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NYC’s Faltering Subway System as an Arcade Game Where Players Race Against Privatization
MTA Country, a new satiric game from Everyday Arcade lets players navigate the crumbling transit system.
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From Chuck Close to Sarah Sze, a Ride Through the Art of the Second Avenue Subway
New York’s Second Avenue Subway opened on January 1 after almost a century of planning, with new art installations by Chuck Close, Sarah Sze, Vik Muniz, and Jean Shin.
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Meet Etti-Cat, NYC’s Feline Subway Etiquette Advisor of the 1960s
In the 1960s, New York City commuters were prodded into respectful behavior by subway posters featuring a black-and-white tuxedo cat.
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The Most Beautiful Subway Station in the World: NYC Pays Tribute to Prince
Travelers through the Prince Street subway station in Manhattan yesterday may have looked twice at its signage that was temporarily transformed into a memorial for the late Prince.
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A Lifetime Devoted to Sketching the Design Details of the New York Subway
The most encyclopedic history of the art and architecture of New York City’s subway is slowly being compiled by one man, who sketches every design detail of its stations.
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Inside New York’s Most Beautiful Subway Station, Abandoned Since 1945
The most beautiful subway station in New York City is locked, inaccessible since the last passengers stepped off its platform on December 31, 1945.
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Various Visions of the Future in NYC’s First New Subway Station in 25 Years
It only took a day after Sunday’s opening for a candy bar wrapper to lodge beneath the new wooden bench of the 34th Street-Hudson Yards platform, and vague stains to appear on the station’s light granite floor tiles.
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Data-Driven Music for the Disharmony of New York’s Income Inequality
As the 2 train travels from Brooklyn through Manhattan up to the Bronx, it journeys along 49 stations of neighborhoods as varied as Flatbush, the Financial District, and Wakefield.
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New York City Subway Maps Across Time
Municipal signage and schematics, as design firm Pentagram’s recent work on New York’s beach and parking signage attests, can play a significant role in (re)defining the character of urban space.
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See the NYC Subway in 1905
A silent, black-and-white video released by the Library of Congress captures a snippet of the first NYC subway line in 1905, trailing a train from 14th Street to Grand Central just a year after the subway opened.
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MTA Rejects Advertising for Looking Too Much Like Graffiti
The Museum of Modern Art may be one step closer to recognizing graffiti as a legitimate art form, but New York City is not. Writer Adam Mansbach, who took part in last week’s “Writers and Writers” event at MoMA, has a post on the Awl about being denied subway advertising space that he was prepared to pay for because the writing in his ad looked too much like graffiti.