Mta subway art program

Birdhouse Subways capture elements of New York's style, energy, and fun. Please note: framed art cards are made to order and require an additional business days to ship; they are not returnable unless defective. Skip to the end of the images gallery. Skip to the beginning of the images gallery.

Take a look at East th Street, a work in progress. Artist, Jean Shin for 63rd Street Second Avenue Subway Station For this commission, Shin used images of the El structures taken from archival photographs and re-imagined them in a contemporary context, using ceramic, mosaic and glass. Artist, Vik Muniz at 72nd Street Vik Muniz: Perfect Strangers creates for this commission the very people who ride this subway system every day.

Kara Walker by Artist, Chuck Close at the East 86th Street, Second Avenue Subway Station Working from gridded photographs, Close builds his images by applying one careful stroke after another in multi-colors or grayscale, creating larger-than-life works. Artist, Sarah Sze at 96th Street Second Avenue Subway Her designs feature everyday objects — sheets of paper blowing in the wind, scaffolding, birds, trees, foliage, using a blueprint-style vector line design. Second Avenue Subway Community Information Center on East th Street in East Harlem Visitors to the community information center can map the future extension from th Street all the way to Coney Island, and view videos showing how the subway is being built.

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Transport Mode: Walking tour - the cost of all public transport is not included between sights. The Program was designed to demonstrate the newest rail car technology, such as Director Current Chopper Control, to the older rapid transit systems New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston and Cleveland.

Boeing contracted with St. Louis was building R series cars for New York at that time, so an R frame was used for the frame. The cars were then sent on a national tour in , and visited New York City during and operated on various lines as follows:. The following is an excerpt from a report published by the Federal Transit Administration. The text below is in the public domain. Report No.