THE original South Ferry station at the tip of Manhattan is a very complex operation that comprises no less than four separate platforms that serve, or served, the IRT 7th…

THESE are the remains of the old Ozone Park LIRR station just south of 101st Avenue at 100th Street. This was once a very important transfer point on the LIRR. The present…

HERE is a classic Amelia Opdyke “Oppy” Jones “Subway Sun” I found in one of the Transit Museum’s classic trainsets on the Brighton Line a few years ago encouraging people…

THE BMT Canarsie Line (popularly, the L train), like its cousin mostly completed the same year, the Flushing Line (#7 train) was built out mostly in 1928. However, some sections…

I am always seeking out mass transit “missed opportunities.” I think one of these is at the north end of the elevated Astoria Line, which runs above 31st Street in…

In 1908 the IRT Subway was extended to Brooklyn for the first time, and Heins and LaFarge, the architects who constructed most of the subway’s early stations and stationhouses, erected…

ONE of my favorite subway websites is Vanshnookenraggen, the pseudonym of Andrew Lynch, who writes about a NYC subway system that never was, or one that never will be. Entries…

ENTRANCE and exit kiosks were constructed by the IRT, or Interborough Rapid Transit (today’s numbered subway lines) for its original 28 stations from City Hall north to 145th Street along…

It seems odd to everyone but me, but I have always been a subway and mass transit buff (and its deterioration the past few years is severely disappointing, still I…

THOUGH Teddy Roosevelt has left the entrance of the Museum of Natural History on Central Park West (he is going to the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in Medora, ND in…

ONGOING renovations at the Long Island Rail Road Woodside complex (it was last re-done between 1995 and 1998 and requires an overhaul) have revealed a “To Shea Stadium” sign at…

I was in DUMBO in Brooklyn on the first hot day of the year in the spring in 2017 and happened upon this photo shoot on Plymouth Street. Many newcomers…