Two Redbird trains in Manhattan's 72nd Street station in 1999. These two particular cars were a permanently-attached "married couple", in which the car numbered 8900 contained the motor-generator and batteries and the car numbered 8901 contained the air compressor. These two subway cars were manufactured by the St. Louis Car Company for the New York...

Musta Been Dusted

author: Peter : Brooklyn, NY

Ghost RIS, Dutch 20th Avenue, Brooklyn NYC Subway Graffiti

Vanishing Point

author: Peter : New York, NY

The elevated subway line disappears into the distance near 10th Avenue and 207th Street in northern Manhattan Manhattan, New York City...

The Other End of the Tunnel

author: Peter : Brooklyn, NY

This is the southern mouth of this tunnel, connecting Bushwick, Brooklyn with East New York, Brooklyn This mostly-abandoned freight line runs parallel to the elevated subway tracks leading into and out of Broadway Junction It was a dark, rainy night Shadows sliced through the night Jare and True X-Men, Acne and Curve The abandoned LIRR platform, which was disused in...

Flashmaps: 1972 NYC Subway Maps

author: Peter : Brooklyn, NY

Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) Broadway - 7th Avenue Subway Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) Lexington Avenue Subway Independent Subway Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT) Subway Franny's recent posts put me in a scanning mood! Part of the NYC Flashmaps Series

New Subway Grating

author: Sean Hopkins : Queens, NY

Broadway and 46th street, Astoria Queens.

Beach's Pneumatic Subway

author: Franny Wentzel : New York, NY

Mention of the Vacuum Train article brings to mind Alfred Ely Beach's demonstration pneumatic railway of the 1870s. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beach_Pneumatic_Transit Constructed in secrecy over 58 days across from City Hall Park, this futuristic system used compressed air blowers to whisk passengers the grand total of one block's distance between Warren and Murray streets. Beach used a shield system to dig out his tunnel original that he claimed was a a pneumatic tube package delivery system to get around Tammany Hall. Contemporary photo of the tunnel; Sketches of the completed demonstration system Passengers trying the new system. Any money collected was given to charity...

End

author: Peter : Brooklyn, NY

Many of the houses and structures between Bushwick Avenue and Evergreen Cemetery lie on dead-end streets. Many are also abandoned or vacant, such as this one on Granite Street A vacant former cemetery building located at Central Avenue and Chauncey Street Pilling Street just off of Evergreen Avenue Furman Avenue, just off of Bushwick. The sign hanging from the gate reads "LEAVE my property ALONE"

B-Boy Alpha

author: Peter : New York, NY

Walking through the subway station under Union Square in Manhattan, I ran into the spot where breaker, breakdancer and adoring crowd collide. As always, I was glad to see B-Boy culture still strong, alive and kicking in NYC...

Government Center

author: Peter : Boston, MA

A train entering the Government Center (MBTA station) stop on the Green Line (MBTA) in Boston's Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) subway system...

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