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Get Inspired On Your Commute With New Poetry In NYC Subways

by Jasmine Liu February 8, 2022February 9, 2022

Agha Shahid Ali and Timothy Liu’s poems feature artwork by Jim Hodges and Nancy Spero.

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Icons of Bronx History Are Honored in Rico Gatson’s New York Subway Murals

by Zachary Small January 14, 2019

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.

Screenshot from MTA Country by Everyday Arcade
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NYC’s Faltering Subway System as an Arcade Game Where Players Race Against Privatization

by Haniya Rae May 29, 2018August 3, 2021

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

by Allison Meier January 3, 2017January 5, 2017

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

by Allison Meier September 15, 2016September 15, 2016

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

by Allison Meier April 22, 2016April 28, 2016

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.

Posted inArt

A Lifetime Devoted to Sketching the Design Details of the New York Subway

by Allison Meier March 7, 2016March 14, 2016

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

by Allison Meier December 17, 2015December 24, 2015

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

by Allison Meier September 15, 2015September 21, 2015

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

by Allison Meier February 10, 2015February 10, 2015

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

by Mostafa Heddaya April 28, 2014May 1, 2014

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

by Jillian Steinhauer August 2, 2013August 7, 2013

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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