(1) NYC Subway Maps: Historical Maps
(1a) Subway Art Card for the MTA by Visual Storyteller Feifei Ruan
(1b) Commuter Rail Guide designed by Joan Charysyn (1975)
Category Archives: NYC
Penn Station
(1) This Is Why Your Holiday Travel Is Awful (Politico)
“Penn Station is the second most heavily trafficked transit hub in the world, trailing only Tokyo’s Shinjuku Station. The station serves more daily passengers than the region’s three huge airports (Kennedy, LaGuardia, and Newark) combined. More people pass through Penn each weekday than live in the city of Baltimore. Anyone who has passed through Penn Station over the past half-century—or who passed through it this Thanksgiving weekend—knows that the nation’s busiest transit center is a national embarrassment, a hole in the ground where the food is ratty and the waiting rooms are sparse.”
Weekend 439.0 (Andantino con moto)
(1) Dvořák Carnival, Op. 92 (YouTube)
Heard this last night at David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center. The performance on YouTube is from Royal Albert Hall in 2012.
(1a) Limestone Photo Archives: Royal Albert Hall
(2) A quote from Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami:
“I was a mere caretaker, and they were kind enough to let me listen to the records there. And I enjoyed listening to the music of Bach, Schubert, Brahms, Schumann, and Beethoven. Not forgetting Mozart, of course. Their music was deep, amazing, and gorgeous. Up to then in my life I’d never had the opportunity to really settle down and listen to that type of music. I’d always been too busy trying to make a living, and didn’t have the wherewithal financially. So I decided that, as long as I’d been provided this wonderful opportunity, I’d listen to as much music here as I could.”
Weekend 430.0 (Drink up, dreamers, you’re running dry)
A rainy day…a total wash out…it took me a couple of hours to realize there were no errands to run…no bike rides to be had…just the opportunity to listen to music…organize thoughts and exercise my creative muscles.
(1) Get ready for a commuter apocalypse (NY Post)
(2) Printmaking to Take Stage at New York’s Javits Center (Barron’s)
(3) ACORN All Purpose Vendor (almost like the mystery of the Sea Venture Building)
(3a) Bermuda (Devil’s Isle), Parts 1 to 3 (now in convenient .pdf format)
Weekend 418.0
(1) Why New York City Stopped Building Subways (CityLab)
(2) Navigationally challenged?
The Bike Map is here!
Whether for fun or commute
Plan your route today!#PoetweetNYC pic.twitter.com/q1cSAexMF9— NYC DOT (@NYC_DOT) April 20, 2018
Weekend 400.0
(1) Fall Museum Preview: 30 Outstanding Art Exhibitions to See in New York This Season (Artnet)
(2) Michael Eisner on Former Disney Colleagues, Rivals and Bob Iger’s Successor (The Hollywood Reporter)
(2a) Former Disney Boss Michael Eisner Seals Deal for English Soccer Team (Variety)
Gotham, Metropolis, The Big Apple…
A quote from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Over the great bridge, with the sunlight through the girders making a constant flicker upon the moving cars, with the city rising up across the river in white heaps and sugar lumps all built with a wish out of non-olfactory money. The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.”
Bonus: Paley Park (Vimeo)
Weekend 377.1
I thought I was a decent curator until I heard Faith Salie on Sunday Morning. She’s tough, but I agree with her.
I have a scanner now (ditched the printer) and have been thinking about a project using books from the limestone library. I was thinking about one scan a week or one post a month themed around Disney (shocker).
I finished restoring 5620. You can see photos here. I have a fairly ambitious backstory and photo shoot planned but it will have to wait for warmer weather. The find comes courtesy of mom (and brother) at a tag sale. It’s a fairly rare model (although the market collapsed after it was reissued a couple of years ago in green). I had to find an engine cover (30 23 3662 / 30 23 3642) and radiator/lights (30 64 1360) as part of the restoration.
These days I also have Gotham/Metropolis/The Big Apple on the mind. It was probably caused by re-reading the Great Gatsby or rumors of a special-edition NYC Brompton (confirmed). Maybe it’s just the excitement of seeing In Transit in a couple of weeks. Either way, one of my resolutions for 2017 is to spend more time exploring the city via cycle/subway/foot before the option becomes a geographical improbability.
(1) Artist Tyrus Wong’s remarkable life (CBS Sunday Morning)
(2) See How ‘Rogue One’ Brought Grand Moff Tarkin and Princess Leia to Life (Yahoo!)