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NYCTA Objects

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Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 9780692902554
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book NYCTA Objects written by and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The evolving design of New York subway ephemera: a collector's story New York City Transit Authority: Objects originated as a photography experiment. In 2011, New York photographer Brian Kelley began documenting collections of used MetroCards in his Brooklyn studio, arranging them in various grids with the goal of perfecting the lighting of an image. His brother suggested he make the grids more interesting by finding other types of cards. Having exhausted his search for discarded MetroCards in many of the city's 472 subway stations, Kelley turned to eBay for new finds. The online rabbit-hole gave him a crash course in the history of NYC transportation. He discovered tokens dating back to 1860, a ticket stub from 1885 when it cost three cents to take the train across the Brooklyn Bridge, as well as patches, matchbooks, tokens, timetables, pins and signs, posting his photographs of these finds on Tumblr and Instagram. Six years on, many MTA employees follow and advocate his project, sometimes contacting him with information and tips on rare items. As the collection grew, Kelley recognized that there were no comparable digital archives documenting the city's transportation evolution. New York City Transit Authority: Objects is a story told through the evolving design that spans decades of the city's history. Kelley's objects tell a greater story of New York's past. For him, The NYCTA Project remains a photography experiment and self-funded hobby, archiving the culture of his home city. For the reader, it's an intimate view of the city's history that merges design and infrastructure over the past 150 years.

Metro / New York / London / Paris

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Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780764363955
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (639 download)

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Download or read book Metro / New York / London / Paris written by and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-28 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subways are a greatequalizer that supersede social barriers separating people in theaboveground city. In his microcosmic portrayalsof everyday human dramas and performances, renowned photographer Herb Robinson profoundly capturesthe interconnection and alienation of human beings underground and onthe move. Readers experience the excitement and extraordinary diversityof three celebrated metropolises in motion. METRO / New York / London / Paristells a global-local story of immigrants and natives, showing how ourworlds are linked and enriched through our common humanity. Innovative concepts and design by Eve Sandler transport viewers forward in this subterraneanworld. Woventhroughout, commentary by Lady Gaga,James Baldwin, King George Vl, Coco Chanel, and others imparts historicalcontext, insider insights, and humor. METRO provides many meaningfulwindows into the character of each city and its inhabitants, whileilluminating modern issues of identity, equality, and the humancondition.

Subway

Author : John E. Morris
Publisher : Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780762467907
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (679 download)

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Download or read book Subway written by John E. Morris and published by Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Incorporated. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "New York wouldn't be New York without the subway. This one-time engineering marvel that united and expanded the city has been a cultural touchstone for the last 114 years. Somehow though, there has never been a book that celebrates the subway from the scars it left on the city's fabric to the romantic fantasies it unleashed. Subway will convey a sense of wonder and fun about the world's largest transit system. The book will include a complete, concise history of the subway beginning with the technical obstacles and corruption that impeded plans for an underground rail line in the late 1800s, and the visionary and sometimes wacky schemes put forward in that era for subterranean and elevated transport. It will also tell how additional lines were built and how three independent subway systems were merged, creating the mishmash of numbered and lettered lines we have today.Interspersed throughout will be sidebars and stand-alone sections including profiles of characters that helped make the subway what it is (including the mostly forgotten August Belmont Jr., a flamboyant financier who bankrolled the first subway); graphics and imagery showing the evolution of subway cars, tokens and MetroCards, graffiti, and even subway etiquette ads; how the subway has been characterized in movies, television, and music; a look at abandoned cars and stations and more. Packed with compelling stories, fascinating facts and anecdotes, vivid portraits of the people who made the subway and those who saved it, all supplemented with engrossing imagery and a dynamic design, Subway will be a visual feast and must-have gift book, perfect for any coffee table"--

The Great New York Subway Map

Author : Emiliano Ponzi
Publisher : Museum of Modern Art
ISBN 13 : 9781633450257
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Great New York Subway Map written by Emiliano Ponzi and published by Museum of Modern Art. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both a love letter to New York City and an introduction to graphic design, this is the story of how the designer Massimo Vignelli tackled the problem of creating a subway map that could be understood by all New Yorkers as well as out-of-towners. Filled with depictions of trains, subway stations, and the New York City skyline, the book follows Vignelli around the city as he tries to understand the system in order to translate it into a map. The book is produced in collaboration with the New York Transit Museum and features a section of historical and archival images and photographs. A groundbreaking work of information design, the subway map designed by Vignelli is an iconic work used by over a billion people every year. The Museum of Modern Art acquired the original 1972 diagram in 2004.

Under the Sidewalks of New York

Author : Brian J. Cudahy
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780823216185
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book Under the Sidewalks of New York written by Brian J. Cudahy and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: But as it is in no other city on earth, the subway of New York is intimately woven into the fabric and identity of the city itself.

The New Geography

Author : Joel Kotkin
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1588361403
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book The New Geography written by Joel Kotkin and published by Random House. This book was released on 2002-01-29 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the blink of an eye, vast economic forces have created new types of communities and reinvented old ones. In The New Geography, acclaimed forecaster Joel Kotkin decodes the changes, and provides the first clear road map for where Americans will live and work in the decades to come, and why. He examines the new role of cities in America and takes us into the new American neighborhood. The New Geography is a brilliant and indispensable guidebook to a fundamentally new landscape.

New York Subways

Author : Gene Sansone
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801879227
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (792 download)

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Download or read book New York Subways written by Gene Sansone and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2004-11-29 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first subway line in New York City opened on October 27, 1904. To celebrate the centennial of this event, the Johns Hopkins University Press presents a new edition of Gene Sansone's acclaimed book, Evolution of New York City Subways. Produced under the auspices of New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority, this comprehensive account of the rapid transit system's design and engineering history offers an extensive array of photographs, engineering plans, and technical data for nearly every subway car in the New York City system from the days of steam and cable to the present. The product of years of meticulous research in various city archives, this book is organized by type of car, from the 1903–04 wood and steel Composite cars to the R142 cars put into service in 2000. For each car type, Sansone provides a brief narrative history of its design, construction, and service record, followed by detailed schematic drawings and accompanying tables that provide complete technical data, from the average cost per car and passenger capacity to seat and structure material, axle load, and car weight. Sansone also includes a helpful subway glossary from A Car (the end car in a multiple car coupled unit) to Zone (a section of the train to the conductor's left or right side). Subway and train enthusiasts, students of New York City history, and specialists in the history of technology will appreciate this updated and authoritative reference work about one of the twentieth century's greatest urban achievements.

International Express

Author : Stéphane Tonnelat
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231543611
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book International Express written by Stéphane Tonnelat and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicknamed the International Express, the New York City Transit Authority 7 subway line runs through a highly diverse series of ethnic and immigrant neighborhoods in Queens. People from Andean South America, Central America, China, India, Italy, Korea, Mexico, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, and Vietnam, as well as residents of a number of gentrifying blue-collar and industrial neighborhoods, fill the busy streets around the stations. The 7 train is a microcosm of a specifically urban, New York experience, in which individuals from a variety of cultures and social classes are forced to interact and get along with one another. For newcomers to the city, mastery of life in the subway space is a step toward assimilation into their new home. In International Express, the French ethnographer Stéphane Tonnelat and his collaborator William Kornblum, a native New Yorker, ride the 7 subway line to better understand the intricacies of this phenomenon. They also ask a group of students with immigrant backgrounds to keep diaries of their daily rides on the 7 train. What develops over time, they find, is a set of shared subway competences leading to a practical cosmopolitanism among riders, including immigrants and their children, that changes their personal values and attitudes toward others in small, subtle ways. This growing civility helps newcomers feel at home in an alien city and builds what the authors call a "situational community in transit." Yet riding the subway can be problematic, especially for women and teenagers. Tonnelat and Kornblum pay particular attention to gender and age relations on the 7 train. Their portrait of integrated mass transit, including a discussion of the relationship between urban density and diversity, is invaluable for social scientists and urban planners eager to enhance the cooperative experience of city living for immigrants and ease the process of cultural transition.

722 Miles

Author : Clifton Hood
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801880544
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book 722 Miles written by Clifton Hood and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2004-08-23 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it first opened on October 27, 1904, the New York City subway ran twenty-two miles from City Hall to 145th Street and Lenox Avenue—the longest stretch ever built at one time. From that initial route through the completion of the IND or Independent Subway line in the 1940s, the subway grew to cover 722 miles—long enough to reach from New York to Chicago. In this definitive history, Clifton Hood traces the complex and fascinating story of the New York City subway system, one of the urban engineering marvels of the twentieth century. For the subway's centennial the author supplies a new foreward explaining that now, after a century, "we can see more clearly than ever that this rapid transit system is among the twentieth century's greatest urban achievements."

The New York City Subway System

Author : Ronald A. Reis
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1604130466
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book The New York City Subway System written by Ronald A. Reis and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teeming with a population of 3.5 million at the end of the 19th century, the island of Manhattan couldn't meet the city's demand for rapid transit with its horse-drawn trolleys and elevated train lines. New York City needed a subway system. After four years of digging and diverting miles of utilities and tunneling under the Harlem River, the city's residents celebrated a new era in mass transit on October 27, 1904, with the opening of a nine-mile subway route. In the century to come, the New York subway would grow and expand to a system that runs 24 hours a day, seven days a week, with 6,400 cars, 468 stations, a daily ridership of 4.5 million, and 842 miles of track - longer than the distance from New York to Chicago. Politics, graffiti, and unbelievable construction challenges combined to make the building and running of the New York subway system one of the America's greatest civic undertakings.

Art and the Subway

Author : Tracy Fitzpatrick
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813544521
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Art and the Subway written by Tracy Fitzpatrick and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores artistic production surrounding the world's most famous public transportation system, from just before its opening in 1904 onwards. Using images, this work offers perspectives on ways in which the subway has been used as a subject about which to make art, as a site within which to make art, and as a canvas upon which to make art.

Fun with the Family Metro New York

Author : Mary Lynn Blanks
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0762765526
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (627 download)

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Download or read book Fun with the Family Metro New York written by Mary Lynn Blanks and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a parent, for parents, this opinionated, personal, and easy-to-use guide has hundreds of ideas to keep the kids entertained for an hour, a day, or a weekend! Fun with the Family Metro New York leads the way to amusement parks, historical attractions, children’s museums, wildlife habitats, festivals, parks, and many other exciting places to go. The whole family will enjoy . . . Exploring the natural wonders of Wave Hill, Van Cortlandt Park, and Pelham Bay Park—all within the city limits Time-traveling back to the days of yore, whether as wizards or princesses, at the Cloisters Strolling through the fabulous mansions of millionaires, or speculating on the whereabouts of the buried treasures of Rip Van Winkle and Captain Kidd Swimming, boating, hiking, sightseeing, and fishing on Fire Island National Seashore

Metro New York Off the Beaten Path®

Author : Susan Finch
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0762763434
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (627 download)

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Download or read book Metro New York Off the Beaten Path® written by Susan Finch and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010-05-18 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tired of the same old tourist traps? Whether you’re a visitor or a local looking for something different, let this first edition of Metro New York Off the Beaten Path show you the metro New York City region you never knew existed. Visit a sizable chunk of the Berlin Wall—in Battery Park. Attend a session of Night Court. Discover isolated and tranquil spots scattered across the five boroughs and beyond—including nearly forgotten islands, tucked away beaches, wildlife sanctuaries, a working farm, subway tunnel tours, crumbling ruins, and bizarre haunts in the middle of one of the planet’s most visited cities. So if you’ve “been there, done that” one too many times, get off the main road and venture Off the Beaten Path.

Lost in NYC: a Subway Adventure

Author : Nadja Spiegelman
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 1943145482
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Lost in NYC: a Subway Adventure written by Nadja Spiegelman and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2020-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lost on a school fieldtrip, Pablo learns to navigate the New York subway and his feelings about his new home.

New York Underground

Author : Julia Solis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000101304
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book New York Underground written by Julia Solis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-28 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did alligators ever really live in New York's sewers? What's it like to explore the old aqueducts beneath the city? How many levels are beneath Grand Central Station? And how exactly did the pneumatic tube system that New York's post offices used to employ work? In this richly illustrated historical tour of New York's vast underground systems, Julia Solis answers all these questions and much, much more. New York Underground takes readers through ingenious criminal escape routes, abandoned subway stations, and dark crypts beneath lower Manhattan to expose the city's basic anatomy. While the city is justly famous for what lies above ground, its underground passages are equally legendary and tell us just as much about how the city works.

New York City Subway Trains

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Publisher : Gibbs Smith Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1586853244
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (868 download)

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Download or read book New York City Subway Trains written by and published by Gibbs Smith Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes 12 easy-to-assemble punch-out train cars that are modeled after the historic trains in the collection of the New York Transit Museum.

Our Subway Baby

Author : Peter Mercurio
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525554750
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Our Subway Baby written by Peter Mercurio and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This gentle and incredibly poignant picture book tells the true story of how one baby found his home. "Some babies are born into their families. Some are adopted. This is the story of how one baby found his family in the New York City subway." So begins the true story of Kevin and how he found his Daddy Danny and Papa Pete. Written in a direct address to his son, Pete's moving and emotional text tells how his partner, Danny, found a baby tucked away in the corner of a subway station on his way home from work one day. Pete and Danny ended up adopting the baby together. Although neither of them had prepared for the prospect of parenthood, they are reminded, "Where there is love, anything is possible."