![]() ![]() Option 1b, like Option 1a, sends the F via 53rd Street and the M via 63rd Street to remove conflicts with the E. Meanwhile, the Q serves the Second Avenue Subway (SAS) via 63rd Street. ![]() Conflicts occur north of 34th Street – Herald Square station when the N joins the R and W on the local tracks the three services run together until reaching Queens, where the N and W serve Astoria and the R serves Queens Boulevard. ![]() ![]() The N and Q trains run express and cross the Manhattan Bridge, while the R and W trains run local via Lower Manhattan. The Broadway trunk line in Manhattan runs from 57th Street and 7th Avenue to Canal Street in Manhattan. While redesigning the former is trivial, the latter is much more challenging. In this post, we’ll explore the Broadway (N, Q, R, and W) and Queens Boulevard (E, F, M, and R) trunk lines. So far, the redesigns contemplated by NYTIP only involve operational changes. In my last post, I discussed the South Brooklyn redesign. This update adds commentary on the transfer passage between 51st Street and Lexington Avenue – 53rd Street stations. For now, New Yorkers can enjoy the fleeting new subway smell in the four art-filled stations, before rats inevitably creep in and the spotless tiles are marred by the daily traffic of thousands of passengers.UPDATE (): Post substantially revised to reflect v1.0.0 v0.8.0 of the enhanced NYC subway on. The next phase will stretch up to 125th Street in Harlem, but that’s assuredly years away. The Second Avenue line was first proposed back in 1929. It was derailed, so to speak, by the Great Depression and other hurdles, until it was revived as a plan in the 1990s to increase Upper East Side accessibility. Sze’s blue and white mural of almost 4,300 porcelain tiles may be the least immediately accessible, yet also the most rewarding to see day after day, as its progression of white paper shapes collecting in corners and transforming into birds offers long-term visual discovery. Lou Reed and Alex Katz glowering in grayscale might do little to brighten commuters’ moods, though. Two are, naturally, of himself, with others in the dozen featuring cultural figures such as Kara Walker, Cecily Brown, and a young Philip Glass hovering over the escalators. The Latin words “E Pluribus Unum” (“out of many, one”) and “Excelsior” (“Ever Upward”) appear in the three new stations.Īlthough likely the most familiar, Close’s portraits really pop in the airy stations, and visitors on the first day were drawn to touch their intricate tile work. View of the Second Avenue–96th Street station. Sarah Sze’s expansive “Blueprint for a Landscape” unfolds across 96th Street, Chuck Closes’s towering “Subway Portraits” loom over pedestrians at 86th Street, Vik Muniz’s life-size figures stand like totems of New York diversity at 72nd Street, and Jean Shin delved into photographic archives to remember the demolished elevated tracks at 63rd Street. Much as with last year’s new subway station - 34th Street–Hudson Yards, featuring futuristic art by Xenobia Bailey - the focus is on mosaics. These public artworks join the extensive underground art museum funded and commissioned by MTA Arts & Design. Sarah Sze, “Blueprint for a Landscape” (2017), porcelain tile, at the Second Avenue–96th Street stationĪccording to the MTA, it is the system’s “first major expansion in more than 50 years” as well as “the largest permanent public art installation in state history.” That’s due to large-scale installations that fill the Second Avenue Subway’s four stations (including the existing 63rd and Lexington stop, which was expanded for the line). ![]()
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