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The connecting passageway at Times Square underneath 41 Street from the 8th Avenue Line to the rest of the station is decently long (slightly shorter than a street block) and always crowded, but people seem to be very good about staying to their right as they walk their quick New York City paces. It begins with a slight ramp uphill, the middle of it has ads to the northside and to the southside a bare black wall with mosaics of people fittingly celebrating New Years eve that is a part of the Art's For Transit Installation, The Revelers. This continues including in the 7 trains mezzanine that is part of this level and there a few in the upper mezzanine (the full photo essays are on this page). Text is visible along the ceiling beams when walking from 8 Avenue to Times Square forming The Commuters Lament/A Close Shave. As the busiest long passageway in the subway, there is always some one playing music or preaching about something along it, just before reaching the 7 lines extremely deep (about three stories) mezzanine, the tunnel gets much wider, there's even a newsstand present at this point before the tunnel path starts sloping quite downward (perhaps a story or two), the transfer corridor is stepfree but the slopes of these ramps are too steep to make it ADA compliant before reaching the staircases down to the 7 line's single island platform terminus and becoming its mezzanine if you can call it that, to the south side of its single island platform. Towards the end of this corridor there is a warp around two stories stairwell that leads up to the upper mezzanine (getting above where the 7 Ave IRT platforms are), here there are also two escalators (one for each direction) that lead directly from the #7 Flushing Line's platforms beneath to the upper mezzanine bypassing the lower one. Continuing west we reach a short passageway and staircases up to each of the IRT platforms (there are two up to each platform on each side of this east-west mezzanine area) accessed through small passageways off the main one, since this mezzanine is below those platforms. There is also the elevator that has four landings, the 7 platform beneath, this mezzanine, the downtown 1,2,3 platform, and the upper main mezzanine beneath 41 Street. At the very end of this long east-west mezzanine area is another very long staircase to the upper mezzanine above the 7th Avenue IRT platforms. This means there are two connections (plus the three escalators directly from the 7 line platform) from this mezzanine to the upper main mezzanine level, providing exits to the street.
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Arts For Transit in the 41 Street Connecting Tunnel between 8 Av and Times Square:
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(42_tunnel1) Passnegers walk through the passageway
2 June, 2009 (42_tunnel2) Another tunnel view with a typical crowd
2 June, 2009 (42_tunnel3) More commuters walking through the tunnel everyone is staying to the right to keep traffic moving
2 June, 2009 (42_tunnel4) Mosaics 8th Ave or 7th Ave? In reality the MTA wants the tunnel used only by connecting passengers not those just wanting to exit and has signed every exit now accordingly (something they used to not do)
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(42_tunnel5) Approaching the tunnel near the 7 line platform where it gets narrower and starts sloping down
2 June, 2009 (42_tunnel6) The tunnel ends and becomes a mezzanine area with staircases off of it down to the Flushing line platform
2 June, 2009 (42_tunnel7) Approaching the eastern end of this station level where the elevator is and the Broadway Line platform entrances
2 June, 2009 (42_tunnel8) A lower mezzanine view just below the Broadway Line
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(42_tunnel9) A corridor leads to a staircaese for uptown Broadway Line trains
2 June, 2009 (42_tunnel10) A corridor leads to a staircaese for downtown Broadway Line trains
2 June, 2009 (42_tunnel11) Down for the 7 or up for the N,Q,R,W,S?
2 June, 2009 (42_tunnel12) Down for the 7 or streight for the A,C,E?
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(42_tunnel13) The steel trusses above the 7 line platform, the pre-renovations version of this station had a ramp here (totally unsigned from beneath) for the upper mezzanine used as an empty shortcut by those in the know
2 June, 2009 (42_tunnel14) A preacher with flyers above the 7 train
5 August, 2009 (42_tunnel15) The 7 train's mezzanine a ramp used to connect down
31 August, 2011 (42_tunnel16) A countdown clock for the Broadway Line, I wonder once CBTC is installed on the 7 if this display will be shared with it as well?
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