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    BMT LIGHTING…RIGHT AND WRONG

    by Kevin Walsh November 24, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh November 24, 2023 5 comments

    As I’ve learned from decades of experience, there’s the right way to do things, and there’s the wrong way (of which I freely admit my occasional guilt) which is usually…

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    THEY WENT BRODAWAY and other subway sign errors

    by Kevin Walsh February 14, 2009
    by Kevin Walsh February 14, 2009 0 comment

    As of February 2009 the subways are almost 105 years old and even the “newest” parts are over sixty years old. In that amount of time, there are bound to be…

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    THE NEW MOSAICS

    by Kevin Walsh June 19, 2005
    by Kevin Walsh June 19, 2005 0 comment

    YOU’VE felt the heat already. New York City’s 722 miles of subways are among the dirtiest, hottest and most woebegone in the country. Other, newer systems are cleaner, cooler and run…

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    SUBWAY ENTRANCE STYLINGS

    by Kevin Walsh February 14, 2005
    by Kevin Walsh February 14, 2005 1 comment

    Title card: Mid-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.…

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    VINTAGE SUBWAY CARS

    by Kevin Walsh March 13, 2004
    by Kevin Walsh March 13, 2004 1 comment

    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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    THE FUTURE WAS YESTERDAY. When the subways used modern design

    by Kevin Walsh March 23, 2003
    by Kevin Walsh March 23, 2003 0 comment

    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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    OLD STILLWELL AVE. TERMINAL

    by Kevin Walsh August 25, 2002
    by Kevin Walsh August 25, 2002 0 comment

    THE END OF THE OLD STILLWELL AVENUE STATION   LEFT: Inside the 1925 D-Type Triplex To celebrate ringing up Number 45 recently [those were he days!–2012] , Your Webmaster purchased a…

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