counting crows

Here and there you can find some pretty
decorative tiles in the subway
—if you keep your eyes peeled for them.

[Linking back to Macro Monday and to
Blue Monday at Magical Mystery Teacher.]

Platform Diving

I've shown this image once before, along with
a couple other examples of subway art,
but at the time I knew nothing about it (and
was apparently too lazy to find out).
Now I can say that it's one of seven mosaic-tile
murals by Deborah Brown at the
Houston Street subway station.  The name of the
whole installation is "Platform Diving"
(clever—and I love the way she imagines the
station under water).

[Linking back to Monday Mural at Oakland Daily Photo.]

art in the subway

New York in Transit is the name of this big
(only half of it is visible here) glass
 mosaic mural by Harlem Renaissance artist
Jacob Lawrence.  It was installed here
in the Times Square subway station in 2001
to coincide with a retrospective of his
work at the Whitney Museum.

[Linking back to Monday Mural and Blue Monday.]

Weekend Reflections

This is the elevated subway station
at E. Tremont Avenue, up in the Bronx,
where you get off to go to the zoo.

[To see more Weekend Reflections,
visit James's meme.]

Thursday Challenge—"curves"

I'm doing something here that I normally
try very hard not to do: repeat myself.
But I looked at the challenge and thought
immediately of this long, curvy subway corridor.
So forgive me, please—I couldn't resist.

[To see more of the Thursday Photo
 Challenge, visit Dale's meme.] 

Mellow Yellow Monday

Not all of New York's subway stations are
dull and dingy.  I hate having to ride the subway,
 but I love finding beautiful tile work like this.


[To see more Mellow Yellow, go here.]

Mellow Yellow Monday

Something new—ads on the subway cars
(by which I mean like this: the whole train
is one big ad).  Frankly, if it'll keep the fares
down, I say go for it.  After all, it's not like
the subways were all that gorgeous before.


To see more Mellow Yellow, go here:
http://mellowyellowmonday.blogspot.com/

subway art #2

Some subway stations have wonderful tile
art. From top to bottom, these are 66th St.
(Lincoln Center), Houston Street (only
explanation I can think of for this one is that
there is a public pool nearby), and 81st Street
(the Museum of Natural History).

gotcha

This is just one of several pieces done by

sculptor Tom Otterness for the 14th Street/

Eighth Avenue subway station. (More of 

his work can be seen on Fifth Avenue 

and at Battery Park.)

I was just coming off the L for Love train,

so-called because some of my daughter

Lila's friends, including the couple here,

met on the L train. I did not see the man

of my dreams, just a rat (granted, it was

dead and down on the tracks, but still . . .).