Heralds of the IRT at Grand Army Plaza
The subway is an indelible part of the culture and fabric of the city.
I started work on this project about a year ago. The idea of a photo-ban thing has gotten me in gear. Here's the first draft.
Here are just a few pictures that I took over the weekend (5-6 June 2004) to celebrate photography on the subway:
The Fabric of our Lives.
The 7 train pulls into the Queensboro Plaza station. Many trains run above ground outside Manhattan.
This remodeled station has no surviving mosaic Zs.
72nd St IRT station original mosaics, freshly restored.
Cruising downtown at 30 blocks per minute, a new IRT (2) train runs express.
The shiny nameplate on a new IRT car.
Lincoln Center mosaics. Is that the Queen of the Night or Medea?
Times Square mosaic. I think this one is a new faux-vintage restoration.
mta.info - official homepage of the people that run the New York City system, for better or worse.
Subway systems of the world. detailed same-scale maps of the world's subway systems. Incredible.
Métrorama - Photos panoramiques du métro de Paris. High-resolution .jpgs of Parisan metro stations.
Underground History- Disued Stations on London's Underground.
Seenworld- the art of Grafitti. NYC subway cars, mostly from the 80s.
Satan's Laundromat- dedicated to general urban decay and incredibly good photography.
NYCsubway.org - Thousands of photographs. Where I turn when I need specifics on the Subway.
07 December 2005
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