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MTA Map – Massimo Vignelli’s 1972 Design
MTA Map – New, Proposed Design
New York City’s subway system has a new map with a very old design concept, inspired by Massimo Vignelli‘s 1972 classic. Read more
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NYC Subway Construction, by Pierre and Granville Pullis
NYC Subway Construction, by Pierre and Granville Pullis
NYC Subway Construction, by Pierre and Granville Pullis
NYC Subway Construction, by Pierre and Granville Pullis
NYC Subway Construction, by Pierre and Granville Pullis
NYC Subway Construction, by Pierre and Granville Pullis
NYC Subway Construction, by Pierre and Granville Pullis
Pierre Pullis had a photography studio on Fulton Street, in New York City, but he spent a lot of time working outside its walls. For about four decades in the first half of the 20th century, he lugged his camera to some rather inconvenient places around the city—including beneath its boulevards. Read more
Rare Vintage NYC Subway Trains, by Danny Lyon
A Look at Rare Vintage NYC Subway Trains, by Danny Lyon
A Look at Rare Vintage NYC Subway Trains, by Danny Lyon
A Look at Rare Vintage NYC Subway Trains, by Danny Lyon
A Look at Rare Vintage NYC Subway Trains, by Danny Lyon
A Look at Rare Vintage NYC Subway Trains, by Danny Lyon
A Look at Rare Vintage NYC Subway Trains, by Danny Lyon
A Look at Rare Vintage NYC Subway Trains, by Danny Lyon
Photographer Danny Lyon‘s images of New York City subway riders in 1966 were featured in an exhibit by MTA Arts & Design. Lyon has had a distinguished career as a photographer and filmmaker, most notably documenting the Civil Rights Movement and motorcycle gangs in the 1960s. Returning to New York City in late 1966, Lyon’s mother gave him the advice, “If you’re bored, just talk to someone on the subway.” Using a Rolleiflex camera and color transparency film, the images in “Underground: 1966” have never been publicly exhibited prior to this.
(via ABC News)
Seneca Village – The Lost Neighborhood Under New York’s Central Park
If you’ve been to New York, you’ve probably visited Central Park. But there’s a part of its story you won’t see. Read more
New York’s Subway Map Like You’ve Never Seen It Before
The city has changed drastically over the past 40 years, yet the MTA map designed in 1979 has largely endured. This New York subway map animation is the best thing you’ll see all day.
Brooklyn Streets Originally Native American Trails
While we take for granted the paths and roads we use on a daily basis, it’s interesting to find out how they came to be. It’s not a new concept that paths worn by the comings and goings of early dwellers and subsequent settlers in a particular area became roads, streets and thoroughfares, often with names that reflect their beginnings. Brooklyn Heights Blog (via Viewing NYC) shares some insight into Brooklyn’s familiar roads that began as Native American trails on a 1946 map titled “Indian Villages, Paths, Ponds and Places in Kings County.”
The map, which comes to us courtesy of the Brooklyn Historical Society, was published in 1946 by James A. Kelly, who was the Brooklyn Borough Historian at the time. It’s noted that “some of the trails that exist today as major thoroughfares, like Fulton Street, Flatbush Avenue and part of Atlantic Avenue.”
Vintage New York Blizzards, by The New York Times
Early New York Times photographs of snowstorms really capture the havoc, misery and peril a blizzard could visit on the city in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The Blizzard of 1888, for example, dumped 21 inches of snow on the city and killed an estimated 200 New Yorkers. But even a garden-variety snowstorm in those days would menace New York’s main form of transit — horses — and impose human suffering of all kinds, while posing the immense logistical challenge of clearing an entire metropolis of snow.