LIVING FOR THE CITY, PART 1 City Hall Park New York’s present City Hall was completed in 1811 and is the third City Hall overall. Though most of the surrounding park closest to City Hall itself was closed off to the public in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of 9/11/01, the remainder actually has [...]
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LIVING FOR THE CITY Part 2
July 16, 2006Categorized in: Subways & Trains Tagged with: City Hall IRT Manhattan
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LIVING FOR THE CITY. My first visit to City Hall station since 1998
July 16, 2006
EVEN though I have chronicled NYC’s lost, magnificent City Hall Station a number of times in Forgotten NY I had only visited once before, in a 1998 Transit Museum tour that occurred before Mayor Rudy Giuliani closed (presciently, it must be admitted) the old station to touring, fearing terrorism. I just went back again (7/06) for [...]
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SUBWAY ENTRANCE STYLINGS
February 14, 2005Mid-1980s IRT retro-kiosk at Astor Place, ca. 1985 In New York City, just about every subway entrance on the system’s 460-plus stations is somehow different, and that’s no mean feat. There are standard templates that different subway companies in the early days, the IRT, BMT, and IND, followed, but they’ve been blurred over the years, so [...]
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POSTCARDS FROM DOWN UNDER. A look at postcards from the subway’s earliest era
August 7, 2004AS MANY Forgotten fans know, what attracts me to the subway is its iconography and signage that preserve styles from decades past; look in any Forgotten NY subway page devoted to old signage, and you will see that the MTA has unwittingly left a museum under its nose; despite its best efforts to standardize things, [...]
Categorized in: Subways & Trains Tagged with: IRT Manhattan Postcards
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UNUSUAL SUBWAY STATIONS
June 20, 2004AS WE celebrate the 100th anniversary of the New York City subway in 2004, just think about what 100 years has meant for the sheer variety of architectural styles that are represented down below. Next time you take the mugger mover, consider that the subways were built by three different companies that were once in [...]
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VINTAGE SUBWAY CARS
March 13, 2004R4 car from MTA’s Transit Museum at Prospect Park LUDDISM isn’t Forgotten-NY’s thing. We don’t indulge in nostalgia because, when it comes down to it, the past sucks, in many ways. No air conditioning, no vaccines, Jim Crow laws and women covering up down to their ankles at the beach. No, we don’t want to [...]
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THE FUTURE WAS YESTERDAY. When the subways used modern design
March 23, 2003In the 1950s, despite the considerable charms of Marilyn Monroe, Bettie Page, Jane Russell and so many other voluptuous stars in film and magazines, it was decided in the architectural community that curves were definitely out. The United Nations Headquarters on 1st Avenue was built from 1947-1953 by an international team of architects that included Le Corbusier of France; at [...]