Thursday 19 February 2015
N Y C Subway Mosaic
Many New York City Subway stations are decorated with colorful ceramic plaques and tile mosaics. Of these, many take the form of signs, identifying the station's location. Much of this ceramic work was in place when the subway system originally opened on October 27, 1904. Newer work continues to be installed each year, much of it cheerful and fanciful.
These tiles are located in the subway walkway beneath the Port Authority Bus Terminal.
Friday 13 February 2015
NYC Subway System - Allen Beatty
A New York City subway sign on 42nd street and 8th avenue indicating all the lines that can be boarded at this station.
Times Square and 42nd Street is a large station complex of the New York City Subway, located under Times Square at the intersection of 42nd Street, Seventh Avenue, and Broadway in Midtown Manhattan. When considered together with 42nd Street Port Authority Bus Terminal, it is the busiest complex in the system, serving 60,604,822 passengers in 2011.
The complex provides free transfers between the IRT 42nd Street Shuttle, the BMT Broadway Line, the IRT Broadway Seventh Avenue Line and the IRT Flushing Line, with a long transfer to the IND Eighth Avenue Line one block west at 42nd Street Port Authority Bus Terminal. It is served by the:
1, 2, 3, 7, N, and Q trains at all times
R and 42nd Street Shuttle trains at all times except late nights
7 trains during rush hours in the peak direction
Grand Central Terminal , colloquially called Grand Central Station, or shortened to simply Grand Central, is a commuter rail terminal station at 42nd Street and Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City.
Built by and named for the New York Central Railroad in the heyday of American long-distance passenger rail travel, it is the largest train station in the world by number of platforms:44, with 67 tracks along them. They are on two levels, both below ground, with 41 tracks on the upper level and 26 on the lower, though the total number of tracks along platforms and in rail yards exceeds 100. The terminal covers an area of 48 acres .
The terminal serves commuters traveling on the Metro-North Railroad to Westchester, Putnam, and Dutchess counties in New York State, and Fairfield and New Haven counties in Connecticut. Until 1991 the terminal served Amtrak, which moved to nearby Pennsylvania Station upon completion of the Empire Connection.
Although the terminal has been properly called Grand Central Terminal since 1913, many people continue to refer to it as Grand Central Station, the name of the previous rail station on the same site, and of the U.S. Post Office station next door, which is not part of the terminal. It is also sometimes used to refer to the Grand Central 42nd Street subway station, which serves the terminal.
According to the travel magazine Travel + Leisure in its October 2011 survey, Grand Central Terminal is "the world's number six most visited tourist attraction", bringing in approximately 21,600,000 visitors annually.
Images from the most exciting city in the world "The Big Apple", New York City
Sunday 8 February 2015
I Love New York Mural
A mural on a building at the corner of 6th Avenue and 17th street in New York City of an artist spray painting an I Love NY Mural with an aerosol can.
No Limits Exhibit Empire State Building
New York is a city in constant motion, and in a new public art exhibition, even the skyscrapers seem to be getting in on the action.
Steel sculptures of 10 prominent city buildings dot the median strip of Park Avenue between 54th Street and 67th Street in Manhattan as part of contemporary artist Alexandre Arrechea's No Limits installation. But passersby can be forgiven if they don't instantly recognize the structures. Each has been given a tweak that, as the project's statement explains, it plays on the idea of elastic architecture as a metaphor for the challenges and opportunities of shifting conditions and new realities.
Here the Empire State Building is coiled into six foot wide octagon.
Groovin High By Faith Ringgold
The High Line is a 1-mile New York City linear park built on a 1.45-mile section of the elevated former New York Central Railroad spur called the West Side Line, which runs along the lower west side of Manhattan; it has been redesigned and planted as an aerial greenway. A similar project in Paris, the 3-mile Promenade plant? completed in 1993, was the inspiration for this project. The High Line currently runs from Gansevoort Street, three blocks below West 14th Street, in the Meatpacking District, to 30th Street, through the neighborhood of Chelsea to the West Side Yard, near the Javits Convention Center. Formerly the viaduct of the High Line went as far south as Spring Street just north of Canal Street, but the lower section was demolished in 1960.The recycling of the railway into an urban park has spurred real estate development in the neighborhoods which lie along the line.
For the High Line, Ringgold has revisited her colorful and paradigmatic story quilt Groovin High (1986), one of the many story quilts Ringgold created that inspired a revival of the medium in the late 1970s. Depicting a crowded dance hall bordered by quilted hand-dyed fabrics, Groovin High is evocative of Ringgold?s memories of Sunday afternoon dances at the Savoy and her connection to the African American communities of her native Harlem. Her style reflects formal treatments of shape, color, and perspective reminiscent of many painters whose styles defined the Harlem Renaissance, an immensely productive and creative cultural movement of the 1920s that erupted out of the African American community living in the eponymous New York neighborhood.
Space for the High Line Billboard is donated by ParkFast.com and is changed every several months.
Human Nature Exhibit 2
Nine 16-to 20-foot-tall, human-shaped stone figures by Swiss-born, New York-based artist Ugo Rondinone, will transform Rockefeller Center, inhabiting the plaza between 49th and 50th Streets as if transported from another time. The work, Human Nature, will be free to the public and was on view from April 23 through June 7, 2013.
Human Nature is a stark contrast to its highly developed architectural surroundings in Midtown Manhattan. The figures will populate the plaza where the famous Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree is displayed, the massive forms of their legs and shoulders forming post-and-lintel structures beneath and among which visitors will be able to walk.
Olmec Head
On display in Dag Hammarskjold Plaza on 1st Avenue and 47th street in New York City, the Olmec Head donated by the State of Veracruz was available to view until May 5th, 2013.
This stone and dust temporary sculpture is a replica of the first majestic Olmec head to be uncovered in San Lorenzo Tenochtitlan in 1964.
Standing over ten feet tall, the facial features of "The King" correspond to what was considered beautiful at the time: a slight strabismus, deformed cranium, amd ear covers.
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