Baruch - Williamsburg North

Contrast of 50's era public housing to new luxury apartment towers. The public housing, just behind the Williamsburg Bridge approach road in the foregroud, is NYCHA's Baruch Houses, Lower East Side, Manhattan. The new towers in the distance are Northside Piers and The Edge, across the river in the northern end of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The Williamsburg Bridge carries vehicular and subway traffic plus pedestrians and cyclists between the Lower East Side and Williamsburg.

No Entry

Taken thru the plastic window of a NYC bus. Subway exit and entrance at the Delancey Street / Essex Street station outside the south building of the Essex Street Market

Under the El

This was taken underneath the elevated subway tracks in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn (just west of Coney Island) back in May. The shadows and rust on the underside of the structure caught my attention as I was crossing the street.

No. 1 Train

Southbound #1 subway train leaving the 125th Street & Broadway station in Harlem. The train comes up for air at this one station, then quickly heads back underground. According to the folks at NYC Subway.org, "Broadway at this point is in a deep valley and the transit designers had a choice of a viaduct or deep tunnel with steep grades at either end. They chose a viaduct to allow the subway to remain relatively level."

Subway Tracks

Two views of of subway tracks from above. First: way below ground at 168th Street, Washington Heights, Manhattan (where you need to use an elevator to get to the platform). Second: high above the East River on the Williamsburg Bridge, between Manhattan and Brooklyn [click photo to enlarge]

Court Square

Taken through a not-so-clean window from the new transfer point between the elevated station on the 7 Train and the underground station on the G/M/E Trains at Court Square in Long Island City, Queens.

Swatch Train

This subway train on the Lexington Avenue line is a giant Swatch ad on wheels, covered with colorful ads from end to end.

LIC Apartments

Recent high-rise residential construction in Long Island City - taken from the Queensboro Plaza subway station.

Two from the Subway

Two snaps from the Times Square subway station: (1) different levels (2) winged monorail

Flushing Tracks

Elevated subway tracks on the No. 7 Flushing line looking east from the 111th Street station. The center tracks lead down and to the right - to the Corona rail yard, where the Flushing trains live. The 111th Street station is a local stop. Express service bypasses this station via the "flyover" tracks above.

Track Work

Track workers pausing to let a subway train pass.

Vintage Subway

Interiors of some of the vintage subway cars on display at the New York City Transit Museum. The museum is in an abandoned subway station at Court Street, Brooklyn.

Track Walking

Was on a moving 7 Train trying to snap the double-decker rail cars (LIRR?) we were passing over. Instead, I caught some workers walking along the west-bound tracks.

Work Train

Some weekend repairs being done on the subway (A Line).

The Funnest iPod Ever ??

Walking down the stairs at the subway station at 8th Ave & W. 14th street, one comes face to face with this billboard for the iPod Touch. Is "funnest" even a word?

Green Light

7 Line in Sunnyside, Queens

Tracks

Taken thru dirty windows from a moving subway train as we crossed over the Amtrak & Long Island Railroad tracks in Long Island City.

Snowbound

Snow all around CitiField and the entrance to the Willets Point subway station.

City Dwellers at 28th Street

Two mosaics at the 28th Street subway station/Broadway line. These are part of the City Dwellers series by Mark Hadjipateras

The Revelers

One of many murals on the walls of the Times Square subway station - part of a series called "The revelers" by artist Jane Dickson