New York City, Random Thoughts and Things that Interest Me
From Forgotten New York… This subway entrance on Broadway caught my interest for two reasons: one, it’s for a long-closed subway entrance, and two, as the time “stamp” indicates, it was taken on my birth date, August 22, 1957, so it’s a snapshot of what New York City looked like when I entered the scene […]
The article I read on Forgotten New York prompted me to take this video. You can find it here. via IFTTT
On Thursday February 13, the New York Transit Museum opened up its new exhibit, Streetscapes & Subways: Photographs By Pierre P. And Granville W. Pullis . The exhibit features photographs from the turn of the 20th century that document the New York City subway’s construction and expansion into to the Bronx and Queens. Source: Photos […]
Wow… I hate when this happens… but perhaps the E-train was smeared with the Jelly? Last month, Gothamist reported on an unnervingly smooth campaign of terror in which someone had been spreading peanut butter on subway poles on the A train. There have been a few weeks of silence since then, but it seems that […]
Like most New Yorkers, I enjoy that other New Yorkers exist… but I prefer not to force chatter upon them, particularly not of the small talk variety. I respect my fellow New Yorkers’ space, and they respect mine. Usually. It’s a fragile system, this one of respectfully ignoring each other, but it is one that […]
