Posts tagged "subways"
THE ORIGINAL CITY HALL SUBWAY STATION CLOSED IN 1945, and since then has remained hidden as we, unawares of the beauty below us, dragged our sorry asses from home to work and back again. Now we can glimpse what used to be. If you stay on the #6 train, past the final stop–the Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall station–you will make a u-turn (don’t freak out; transit officials allow riders to stay aboard for the u-turn) until you are facing up-town. [...]
Posted in The City on October 17th, 2007 | 
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cool stuff Doreen He subways
1929: city announces that it will build a Second Avenue subway line, part of a plan to add a 100-mile network at an estimated cost of $800 million.
2007: city starts building Second Avenue subway. And we thought work orders for the Board of Ed were slow.
Back to 1929, the Great Depression stopped the plan until—weirdly–work resumed in 1972, then had to be stopped again because of the fiscal crisis. 35 years later, no trains run through “the tunnel to nowhere.”
Incredibly, [...]
Posted in The City on April 19th, 2007 | No Comments »
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Mohammad Abu Taher subways
CONTRARY TO URBAN MYTH, THE L TRAIN IS NOT THE WORST, SLOWEST, UGLIEST SUBWAY LINE IN NEW YORK HISTORY. Running from the miraculous bowels of Carnarsie—a neighborhood with more auto repair shops than people—through the dope-addled Williamsburg wasteland, to 8th Avenue and 14th Street in Manhattan, the L, out of 22 subway lines, ranks third in cleanliness, punctuality and in-car announcement, according to subway watchdogs, The Straphangers Campaign.
Better yet, 91% of L trains arrive “with above average regularity,” better than [...]
Posted in The City on March 22nd, 2007 | 1 Comment »
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Omobolanle Kazeem subways
Sometimes, for reasons even our magnificent brains can’t understand, musicians enter a car and play magic. After these guys stopped, passengers clapped.
Posted in Arts & Events, The City on January 28th, 2007 | No Comments »
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music subways video
Watching cult favorite director Wong Kar Wai film “My Blueberry Nights,” — his first American movie — on the streets of Soho last week, got us thinking again about how different Movie New York is from real life New York. We recall, for example, couple years back, the groan that erupted from the audience when Jack Lemmon, in The Apartment, casually mentions his Central Park West rent (something like $85 per month). This also got us thinking about other [...]
Posted in Books/Films/Media on September 28th, 2006 | No Comments »
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Leorenz Capili movies subways
In his dog-eat-dog hurry to make a buck, Recharger sometimes forgets to stop and smell the music. The cool thing about Geo is his teeny weeny, um, guitar. Geovanni Suquillo, from Valle de Chillos, Ecuador, lives in Astoria, Queens and his teeny guitar is called a charango. For 12 years, he’s been part of the Music Under New York program (MUNY), run by the MTA, (Recharger loves the MTA), playing his charango in the subways three times a week. The [...]
Posted in Arts & Events, The City on September 23rd, 2006 | No Comments »
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Geovanni Suquillo music subways
