Unsigned Subway Entrances – Photo Essaying Stations at the tip of Lower Manhattan plus Upload: the Brighton Line Under Construction

One of my relatively lofty goals for the two weeks that I’m here in New York is to fully photograph and finish photo essays of all the stations I haven’t photographed. So today I began, finishing off all the stations in Lower Manhattan and discovered a feature of the subway I never noticed today as I was doing my photo essays. There lots of unmarked completely open to the public subway entrances that require you to go through the lobby of an office building, or down an unmarked staircase into a building, this will probably become a special feature of the website at some point. One Chase Manhattan Plaza for example has two entrances within that lead to three different subway stations even, both Wall Streets (2/3, and 4/5) and the Broad Street Station (J/Z). Unadvertised subway fact, Wall Street (4/5) and Broad Street (J/Z) are connected (during daylight hours on weekdays) by two quite long and narrow passageways, via the Equitable Building’s unmarked (but open to the public) entrance. There a branch of these passageways that lead to the One Chase Manhattan Plaza Building. Unfortunately photographing the revolving doors that lead into these entrances is a bit hard because building guards will generally not one the general public to take photographs while passing through their lobbies. I got yelled at by a guard in the Equitable Building, who said once you pass through those revolving doors onto the subway, photography’s fine. He didn’t make me delete the single terrible picture I had taken though. This will definitely be a website feature at some point. A final memorable entrance is also at Wall Street, a staircase down to a small underground shopping arcade that leads to the subway, that has no MTA Subway sign, but one for a Subway restaurant, located in the tiny shopping arcade. Most of these passageways are only open on weekdays so I’m sticking to taking my photo essays then.

Anyway today in summery, Completed photo essays of: Both Rector Streets (1 and R/W), Both Wall Streets (2/3 and 4/5), Broad Street (J/M/Z), the new South Ferry (1) Station (I did the Whitehall Street Station previously), the open Uptown platform at Cortlandt Street (N/R), since the downtown one and the IRT station are both closed because of the World Trade Center Reconstruction, and the entire Park Place-Chambers Street Complex, as I spent about four hours wondering around lower Manhattan riding few subway trains but swiping in and out a lot.

I also met a buddy for lunch in Brooklyn and took a trip down the Brighton Line to look at and photograph the construction going on there. Also stopped at Atlantic Avenue to photograph the new LIRR waiting area (that will go in the LIRR section when I get around to updating it).

Total Number of Swipes on my the 14-day Unlimited ($51.50) I purchased this morning to last my entire visit: 12

Here the updated Brooklyn (already completed stations):

	Atlantic Avenue (3 photos added)
	Avenue J (18 photos added)
	Avenue U (5 photos added)
	Lawrence Street (5 photos added)

Also added: 2 photos to DeKalb Avenue