Tag: Subway
It’s always been tough to be a “showtime” subway performer in NYC, but more so now that the NYPD has been cracking down on them. So what better time to give them some love? Just like this documentary shows how hard subway dancers practice in order humanize them, a new video by FairEnds shows the […]
On Monday, New York City’s subway system turned 110 years old and celebrated by releasing two vintage subway trains on Manhattan’s high-volume 1, 2, and 3 lines between Times Square and 96th Street. A description of the Nostalgia Trains, via the MTA’s site: One train will consist of four Low-Voltage subway cars that were in […]
Monday marks the 110th anniversary of the first subway running in New York City. Commemorative things are planned. Ya know, celebratory stuff. But the real fucking party was back in 1904 on the streets of Manhattan when the common man saw technology manifest in front of his or her eyes in the form of an […]
What if you could transform a single subway performance into a city-wide orchestra? That’s what producer Anita Anthonj and director Chris Shimojima succeeded in doing in their short film Signal Strength (embedded above), which used Wi-Fi to connect performers across nine different stops in New York City. On a sunny September morning, 11 performers were […]
A penthouse at the top of 10 Gracie Square. Ben Wellington, the intrepid data quantifier/visualizer of I Quant NY, has merged publicly accessible information from the MTA Subway Station Entrance data set and city lot directory PLUTO to discover it. The building, located at the end of 84th street at the FDR Drive, is 0.8 miles away along the grid to the nearest […]
The practice of men sitting on the subway with their legs spread so far apart that they take up two seats has been given a name: “man spread.” According to amNY, it’s a “widening blight on public transportation.” It’s so common that there are competing blogs dedicated to posting pictures of the offenders. When they asked […]
“Advertisers have been stealing graffiti tactics for years,” says long-time graffiti writer 2ESAE. SKI adds, “We’re not allowed to paint trains anymore. Who knew that years later… fucking Target could have a full car?” SKI is referring to the time when the MTA first let a brand wrap an ad entirely around a subway car in […]
Surveillance cameras will be installed in subway cars across the city as soon as 2015. MTA’s Capital Program has budgeted for 940 new subway cars on the lettered lines and will install the cameras over a period of four years. The 300 recently purchased cars for the C and J lines may also receive the Big Brother […]
Do you really love your subway line? Do you want to feel like you’ve arrived at Coney Island every time you walk into your house? Then these handmade replicas of the iconic MTA signs are just what you need. Carlton Cutz is just under $1000 away from meeting his goal on Kickstarter. If you donate, you can get one […]
New York commuters are bombarded with advertisements. Capitalizing on this bland, visual onslaught, the freshly launched NO AD app is hijacking ads all over the subway system with alternative imagery, turning them into a sprawling, augmented reality exhibition space. This month, it’s loosely themed around street art and anti-advertising. In the near future, they’ll be collaborating with art and photography […]
