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Cortlandt Street Fully Reopened an hour early (Upload) and two missing pieces of artwork

Well today I just had to go down and investigate the new Cortlandt Street Station as advisories listed it opening in time for the tenth anniversary of 9/11 at the odd hour of 5pm. I also read on Second Avenue Sagas, my favorite blog for subway news (no personal affiliation, just a fan), that there […]

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Upload: Queensboro Plaza and the 3 ‘Q is For Queens’ Flushing Line Stops

In this upload I connect the Astoria Line from yesterday with the rest of the network on my website via Queensboro Plaza (I know its missing art, need to go back there and try and get some better pictures of the strange silkscreens that are really hard to photograph), and also made the 3 Flushing […]

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Upload: The BMT Astoria Branch

Well after finishing the huge and Times consuming Times Square complex which it took me working on and off for a week to make I decided it was time to return to those local stations that I can churn out with relative ease. Here is this entire branch: Astoria-Ditmars Blvd–(31 photos) Astoria Blvd-Hoyt Av–(page rebuilt […]

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Upload: The Massive Times Square-42 Street Complex

The reason I haven’t made any uploads in the past week was because I was working on this mammoth one with tons of photos including lots of the 7 different Arts For Transit installations in the busy mega-complex. Here are the 7 different sections required to do the Times Square-42 Street-Port Authority Bus Terminal in […]

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Upload: The 50th Streets

Well this upload I didn’t quite finish before I left for my trip to Maine and today with less transit news to follow managed to motivate myself to finish it, It is of three stops on 49-50 Street all within a one full-length crosstown block radius. All three have similarities: Entrances hard to find in […]

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Upload: The IND-BMT 63rd Street Line and Tunnel

Well in this update I finish the 3 crosstown lines to tunnels to Queens and present two of the three newest subway stations (the third is in Queens and I finished a few years ago) with one of these currently being modified for the 2nd Avenue Subway, and the seventh newest subway station which is […]

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Running an Errand Today and Stopping For More Artwork Pictures

Well today I had to run an errand downtown on William Street that gave me a chance to use (and photograph ) the first new improved entrance to open as part of the Fulton Street Transit Center with a nice big plaque. I then wondered the area a bit getting station entrance photos so I […]

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Upload: The BMT 59-60 Street Crosstown

Well I’ve taken this update 6-7 blocks north (yes, 5 Avenue station is on a diagonal) for this three station update that includes another transfer hub (this one requiring 3 pages to cover) at 59 Street and Lexington Avenue: 57 St-7 Av–(page rebuilt with 17 new photos and 6 of the artwork) Fifth Avenue–(21 photos) […]

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Upload: The 53 Street IND Crosstown Line

This update consists of the 3 Stations of the 53 Street line and finally rather circuitously via 59 Street-Columbus Circle and 7th Avenue the entire network of completed stations on this website is connected! 51 Street-Lexington Avenue marks another complex transfer station done (and I hope done well), and the one even more complex station […]

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Upload: The Last 3 Stations of the Upper East Side

In this update I finish what I started in my update two days ago using photos I took yesterday. The last 3 stations of the Lexington Avenue Line north of 59 Street, these ‘easy’ stations served by a single line that take a lot less time to make than complexes: 103 Street–(12 photos of the […]