Subway Art

I asked the cop where the Lichtenstein Mural is in Times Square.

He had no idea what I was talking about.  But when I showed him the picture, he remembered it and sent me in the right direction.


That's the thing about subway art.  Its there.  People notice it.  But they don't actually know they're seeing art.

I am fascinated by art in the subways. Here are a few links

A great video with interviews with the artists -some quite renown

A subway guide- a list of some of the better known pieces of art.

Or download the app Meridian for either Iphones or Androids for a really thorough collection of information on subway art including podcasts, directions and station by station explanations.

A Brooklyn Visit-Brooklyn Heights and the NYC Transit Museum

Visit with the Kerr family from Brisbane Australia.

What do you do when the family wants to visit Brooklyn and its 60 degrees and raining in New York City?

Go to the Transit Museum.

Took the 5 train from Grand Central to Borough Hall, the first stop in Brooklyn and  followed the cell phone directions to the base of my former life.  110 Livingston Street.  Once that was the home of the venerable Board of Education of the City of New York. It still says so on the facade.  Now like so much of Brooklyn, its high priced condos.

We all enjoyed the museum, filled with explanations of the making of the subway system, as well as old trains, trolleys and buses to crawl in and out of.  

Then an aborted attempt to find a place to eat, then I followed the cell phone to   My Little Pizzeria, 114 Court Street. 

Then we followed the cell phone down, through Brooklyn Heights, and to the Brooklyn Bridge where it began to pour heavy, so it was time to follow the cell phone to the nearest subway.

I said I knew Queens,  But the cell phone seems to know Brooklyn well enough.