As Ray Davies puts it on a song on the Kinks’ Village Green Preservation Society LP, People take pictures of each other Just to prove that they really existed I’d seen photos of…
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In proposing a ban on all photography by “unauthorized” personnel on its property, the MTA is citing safety precautions in the Age of Terror. However, I’ve long suspected the real reason is…
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photo: Larry Fendrick. 1960s view at the barrel-vaulted Grand Central Terminal station, showing “future” redbirds. Already, vandals were marring the units The end of a 39-year run for R33 and…
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Subways & Trains
POSTCARDS FROM DOWN UNDER. A look at postcards from the subway’s earliest era
by Kevin WalshAS 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…
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NEW YORK CITY is not a railroading town, certainly not in the league of Chicago or Denver, for example. Goods get in and out of New York City mainly by truck,…
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AS 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…
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DESCEND with us now to a place far below the tumult and cacophony of the New York City subway system, a place where dripping water and the scuttling of…
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R4 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 ain’t what it’s cracked…
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Written in 2003, the last year tokens were used for revenue service…. Turnstiles, as well as tokens, have changed radically over the years. Turnstiles predated tokens; the first nickel-operated turnstiles appeared…
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BMT Chambers Street uptown platform, November 2003 That’s harsh, but the truth hurts sometimes. In many ways, the NYC subway system and the transportation network of which it is a part is set…
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In 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…
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photo: Vincent Losinno The tracks of the Culver Shuttle await disposal at Cortelyou Road during demolition in August 1985 Fewer and fewer subway riders remember the Culver Shuttle, which ran…