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    UPTOWN WHIRL. IND light stanchions

    by Kevin Walsh March 12, 2011
    by Kevin Walsh March 12, 2011 0 comment

    Jump on the A train, take it uptown almost all the way to the end of the line, get out at 190th Street and exit on the Fort Washington Avenue…

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  • Subways & Trains

    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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  • Subways & Trains

    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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  • Subways & Trains

    MORE OF THE REAL SUBWAY

    by Kevin Walsh September 5, 2004
    by Kevin Walsh September 5, 2004 0 comment

    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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  • Subways & Trains

    UNUSUAL SUBWAY STATIONS

    by Kevin Walsh June 20, 2004
    by Kevin Walsh June 20, 2004 0 comment

      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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  • Subways & Trains

    BELOW THE PLATFORMS…

    by Kevin Walsh May 8, 2004
    by Kevin Walsh May 8, 2004 0 comment

        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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  • Subways & Trains

    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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