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Tag Archives: subways
This is so friggin’ cool!
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 … Continue reading
Prisoners of Second Avenue
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 … Continue reading
Stop your whining, hipster scum!
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 … Continue reading
F train not all bad
Sometimes, for reasons even our magnificent brains can’t understand, musicians enter a car and play magic. After these guys stopped, passengers clapped.
Reel Life
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. … Continue reading
Geo, the man with the teeny-weeny guitar at Union Square
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 … Continue reading