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28th Street Station
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17 December 2016
The New York City Subway is one of the oldest public transit systems in the world, and Manhattan has its fair share of it, especially in the form of abandoned subway stations.Subways are great mean of transportation, with great historical and geographical value. Interborough Rapid Transit company built the first subway in 1904. The subway consisted of what is today the IRT Lexington Avenue Line south of 42nd Street, the 42nd Street Shuttle and the IRT Broadway - Seventh Avenue Line between 42nd and 145th Streets. 28th Street is a part of the first IRT line of NewYork city. It a local station on the Lexington Avenue Line of the New York City Subway, located at the intersection of Park
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The original station had separate stairways for entering and exiting in a way. Although not much looks the same today, the mosaics on the walls are still there. ("28Th Street Subway Station (1) - Lost New England") . The 28th Street station was originally designed by George Lewis Heins and Christopher Grant LaFarge who gave those decorative identification plaques to the station; they were made of several pieces of ceramics that have adhered together. There are several remains of the original decoration of this station including the ID plaques and many round pillars with fluted tops and bottoms. Original IRT stations had entrance and exit kiosks but with the passage of time motorists began to find those great structures an obstruction to viewing traffic signals and stoplights, so they were phased out, with the last ones surviving until the late 1960s. A new entrance kiosk was built for the uptown Astor Place platform in the traffic island in the mid-1980s which could still be found at the Uptown 28th Street station. The new walls of the station that extended in the 1950s received IND-style mosaics with blue and gold color scheme contrast. Exteriorly the station is surrounded by beautiful historic buildings like Cathedral of Insurance Building and Madison Square Gardens. Most noteworthy entrance/exit of the station is from the New York Life's "Cathedral of Insurance" building with ornate iron signs Interborough Subway which lead to the breathtaking sea of polished brass architecture and two "SUBWAY" stanchions that appear at both staircases leading down to the station. The sign on the stanchions seems to be two barking dogs on either side of a flaming brazier and ceiling treatment with nine colored reliefs in red, gold and green. A chandelier hangs from the central tile. This treatment appears in front of each down staircase ("NYC's
The Station was a single story wood frame building of approximately 4500 square feet.. It was originally built in 1946 as a club for local military personnel who were on leave. Over the years it served as a variety of restaurants, bars and nightclubs. In 1972, a fire damaged the building and reopened in 1974. In 1991 it was converted into its final incarnation as a bar and showroom. The building was arranged with the bar, kitchen, dart room along with offices and storage on the east end of the building. The showroom and sunroom area comprised the west. There were four exits. The front door was only accessible through a corridor partially occluded by a small ticket booth and another 36 inch wide doorway in the middle of the corridor. This becomes a critical chokepoint when the fire breaks out.
The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) is not the best method of transportation in the city of Toronto, because it’s unreliable, inconvenient, and unsanitary. First of all, the TTC is unreliable because of many delays. The TTC buses often come late and there are many subway breakdowns and signal problems. These problems can cause longer wait times and result in the rider being late. Additionally, the TTC is inconvenient because it is difficult for the rider to get to his or her destination without a few transfers. In addition, there are very few direct routes and limited area coverage. For example, there are some areas where passengers have to walk long distances just to get to the bus stop. These problems can result in many transfers and cause
When you encounter a city such as Chicago, it is practically impossible to avoid CTA and Metra trains. From short store errands to long journeys home, the CTA is there as your personal downtown car. If you do not have enough money to put into owning a car or simply do not want to put up with trying to find parking in the congested city, the CTA is there for you. Where more people to use the CTA, the amount of gas polluting the earth would significantly decrease the pollution levels in Chicago. Since there aren't as many cars on the road, it not only decreases the carbon monoxide leaking from cars but the amount of cars on the road, which also decreases the amount of people on the road. Numerous laws state how using the CTA could benefit people in Chicago overall. These are just some of the reasons Metra and the CTA has impacted everything from population to economics and even political and environmental issues.
In Sharon Old’s, “On The Subway,” the speaker compares her life to a black boy. She compares their different lives and the different positive or negative connotations that may be associated with them. Olds does this with her use of metaphors, similes, and imagery.
It has the Red Line train, many different number buses, and the water taxi during the summer. According to Chicago’s Chinatown, “The Chicago Transit Authority operates both an elevated train and four bus routes that service the area. The Red Line, the CTA's busiest transit route, stops 24/7 at the Cermak-Chinatown station located in the heart of Chinatown near the corner of Cermak Road and Wentworth Avenue. Running north–south, the #24 bus route runs on Wentworth Avenue on the eastside of Chinatown, while the #44 route runs on Canal Street on the westside. The #21 runs east–west on Cermak Road, and the #62 runs southwest–northeast on Archer Avenue. There is a taxicab stand on Wentworth Avenue, and a water taxi service also runs along the Chicago River from Michigan Avenue to Ping Tom Memorial Park in Chinatown during the summer months” (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia). The Chinatown neighborhood had many different public transportations. As described by Harry Kiang’s Chicago’s Chinatown, “Chinatown is fragmented by many transportation lines. The New York Central Railroad and the Dan Ryan Expressway parallel its east boundary closely. The Santa Fe Railroad parallels the South Branch of the Chicago River, which forms its northwest boundary. The Pennsylvania Railroad cuts Chinatown from north to south along Canal Street. The Stevenson Expressway cuts Chinatown from east to west
The New York City Subway System, or the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), has become the “life line” of New York City (NYC) since people are reliant on the subway system for commuting to different places within the city. One such person, who buys this fact, is a person by the name of SunDo K, who runs and owns a restaurant business in Cypress, California. He claimed in his profile on Yelp that, “One of the best part about New York City is traveling via the subway.” Now there are also acid twists and turns into this. Precisely there are many others out there whose judgment matches flawlessly the same with K.
Castleman, Craig. "Getting up: Subway Graffiti in New York." The MIT Press (1982): n. pag. Digital file.
Following the steps of the Dutch who first came to Lower Manhattan, we embarked on the Staten Island Ferry on Sunday, Nov. 10, and we could see one of the world’s most famous figures: The Statue of Liberty, a gift from the French to the U.S. that was put in such a strategic and historic place. The view of the green icon from the boat that was transporting passengers from Staten Island to Lower Manhattan, with the skyline of New Jersey in the background, and New York to our right, was a delightful experience. Not one person on the ferry was like the other, one could see people from all over the world, joined together and representing New York’s diversity, trying to relive the same experience that the Dutch had centuries ago. Some people take this ride every day for work; others were simply tourists or inhabitants of the New York metropolitan area.
The rail systems put into place in Chicago have always been a major factor in freight transportation. The city provides a centralized hub for the railways throughout the country. After a long run the system is bound to find flaws as old technologies are passed by new ones. The existing railroad structures have in time taken a toll over the years of service. “The railroad system of Chicago has been around for a long time now. After many years it has gone past time time of despair. With the new project it is hoping to bring the popularity back to where it once was” (Chicago Transit Renovation to Improve Service). This update needed will guide Chicagos railroad system into the future. The city also has to take a look on how it is going to keep up with the constant increase of railcars on their tracks. With the new technologies of the future Chicago can only make their infrastructure better. The aim is to stay on time with the railcars to diminish the amount of overcrowding presented in the old rail systems in Chicago.
The idea that was tested in New York’s subway was that of order maintenance. This idea was linked to the broken windows theory. A broken window left unattended was a sign nobody cared and led to more serious damages and crime. Like this, minor offenses not dealt with by the police led people to believe no one cared and led to more serious crime and basically a downward spiral of urban decay (Kelling, Bratton, 1998). The idea of fixing this broken window theory was the basis for the tactics first implement in New York’s subway.It is important to take a brief look at New York subway system and how order maintenance was used so that we can look at further how it was applied to the rest of New York City. In the 1980s New York’s subway was a dreaded place and usage numbers were in decline. Fare beaters were common, robberies were often and homelessness and begging greeted commuters from the entrance to t...
Langston Hughes was a pioneer for human rights. Not excluded from his cause is the poem Subway Rush Hour. The poem describes this subway car carrying so many lives barreling towards it destination. The people on the subway for a short time are equal. The reader discovers that just as the little pockets of peace branch off throughout the city that so should the equality in each car. These niches of harmony rush forward to take over the future and pervade through the entire United States. The speaker “Subway Rush Hour” argues that forced unity will spread equality through the use of equalizing diction, the title, and change of tone from uncomfortable to hopeful.
Opening on January 1, 2017, the Second Ave Line (consisting of new subway stations: 72nd Street, 86th Street, and 96th Street) was developed to relieve congestion on the Lexington Ave line in Manhattan. A resident who lives by 99th Street and 2nd Ave said the opening of the 96th Street station was “the best Christmas gift I ever received.” The 72nd Street subway station features artwork by Vik Muniz, a Brazilian artist, called “Perfect Strangers,” a series of life-size portraits who appear to be waiting for the train. The portraits are based off staged
On completion, it was the world’s largest building floor area, with over 1, 713, 000 square meter. It owns the capacity of managing 43 million passengers per year. It is working since 14th October of 2008, opened in four phases for the purpose of avoiding collapse of baggage handling. It has the large area under the subway for taxis which is in direct connection with the Concourse B.
Without a doubt, Times Square in New York City is a unique experience, but the image created by TV and movies does not show the gloominess that accompanies the euphoria of being in the Big Apple. The atmosphere is so exhilarating and exciting, you don’t even know what to do for a few minutes, but it is tinged with the bitter reality that sadness and melancholy also trail closely behind the positive. With most, if not all, of your senses being stimulated – sometimes all at once – Times Square creates a memory that will surely be cherished, and haunt you for the rest of your life.
The sandwich franchise began during the summer of 1965. Seventeen year old Fred DeLuca received a loan from a family friend for one thousand dollars, and opened the first Subway in Bridgeport, Connecticut. The store name was not Subway but Pete’s Super Submarines named after the family friend that gave Fred DeLuca the loan (www.entrepreneur.com).