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The final day of my two week unlimited – Finishing Up the Grand Concourse Line, and a Questioning Stop

Well, today (as of an hour and a half ago) marked the expiration of the last two weekly unlimited ride MetroCard I’ll ever be able to buy. Unfortunately after my too late night last night I had a relatively mellow day and didn’t leave until two in the afternoon which gave me extremely limited hours […]

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Yesterday: Photo Essaying the Jerome Avenue el and Concourse Subway

Yesterday I set off to make the Bronx Section a bit more up to my new standards by photo essaying almost the entire Jerome Avenue el and Concourse Subway Lines. Two lines that are ridiculously close together. All the southern stations are an easy walk from each other The Concourse Subway was definitely built in […]

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Finishing the LIRR Main, Atlantic, and Babylon/Montalk Lines in Queens – 8 more stations!

Well as I discussed in yesterday’s blog post for the Nassau County Portions of the West Hempstead and Hempstead Branches today I decided to do another bus trip in eastern Queens to finish off every LIRR station (except on the Port Washington Branch) within New York City. This trip since Queens has much better bus […]

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Station to Stations of both Hempstead branches – 7 miles total of walking, 11 stations photo essayed

What happens when one of your even more ridiculously ambitious goals is to photograph every commuter railroad station in addition to every subway station and you find the price of railroad tickets too high and no single day unlimited passes offered? You do a lot of walking! Perhaps when I’m in New York in summer […]

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Finally Fully Photo Essaying Some Stations in the Bronx

Well today I couldn’t roam far had to go to the dentist in my neighbrohood mid-afternoon. Instead I decided it was about time to revisit stations in the Bronx to finally write my detailed descriptions that I neglected to research or write four to six years ago when I was finishing the Bronx’s section. I’m […]

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Todays Adventures: A Little Bit in Midtown

Today was an interesting day in terms of how many random places I turned up on the subway. The day started with me and mother to go to the Whitney Museum of Art deciding to walk across the Washington Bridge and to 170 Street on the 4 train. This walk made me realize that I […]

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191 Street and the IRT’s Inwood Elevated Line Finally Shooting Photo Essays

Some New Photo Essays at the tip of Upper Manhattan: 191 Street (37 photos station photos) and a new mural and (10 photos), and a photo essay of its arts for transit mosaic of the various ethnic groups of the neighborhood (3 photos. Also: Dyckman Street (22 photos and 3 of artwork), 207 Street (19 photos, description and 2 of artwork), and 215 Street-(15 photos added and 3 of the artwork)