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29 unusual facts about New York City Subway


Alf Hjort

Under his watch a string of New York City Subway tunnel projects were planned and completed, e.g. the BatteryBrooklyn vehicular tunnel between the southern tip of Manhattan and Brooklyn.

Arnold Schuster

A longtime Brooklyn resident, 24-year-old Schuster recognized wanted bank robber Willie Sutton while riding on the New York City Subway in February 1952.

Arthur Ashe Stadium

Due to its location near Citi Field, the home of the New York Mets, all these stadiums share the Mets–Willets Point stop on the New York City Subway's 7 Train.

Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Brooklyn

The Basilica is served by the New York City Subway Fourth Avenue line 59th Street subway station (N and R Lines).

Breaching experiment

One was conducted on the New York City Subway in the 1970s, when experimenters boarded crowded trains and asked able-bodied but seated riders, with no explanation, to give up their seats.

Christophe Agou

He first came to prominence with photographs taken in the subway, and published Life Below in 2004 (Quantuck Lane Press / W.W. Norton & Company).

Curtis Sliwa

In May 1977, Sliwa created the "Magnificent 13," a group dedicated to combating violence and crime on the New York City subways.

D*Face

He credits this to Henry Chalfant's coverage of subway graffiti in New York City in Spraycan Art and Subway Art, later as a teenager skateboarding and in particular Thrasher magazine's coverage of skateboard deck graphics led his interest in stickers and the DIY mentality associated with skate and punk fanzines.

George Trakas

Notable recent examples of his work include a waterfront nature walk at the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant in Brooklyn, New York; another waterfront installation adjacent to the Dia:Beacon museum in Beacon, New York; and public art in the New York City Subway at the Atlantic Avenue - Barclays Center station.

Girl in Mirror

Girl in Mirror uses macciaoo Ben-Day dots like many of his other works, but it was inspired by the hard reflective finish of signs in the New York City Subway system and, in turn, they inspired his subsequent ceramic head works.

Although it uses Ben-Day dots like many other Lichtenstein works, it was inspired by the New York City Subway rather than directly from a panel of a romance comics work.

HopStop.com

Transit directions are available for New York City and several other major metropolitan areas, including Atlanta, Boston, Las Vegas, London, Los Angeles, Paris, Philadelphia, Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, Toronto, and Washington, D.C. Service in Chicago is suspended as of mid-October 2013, with no announced timeline for restoration.

I Knew I Loved You

The music video was filmed by director Kevin Bray in August, 1999 on a New York City Subway set that had previously been used on the sitcom Seinfeld.

Ike Eisenmann

Eisenmann also starred in the made-for-television 1982 movie Dreams Don't Die as New York subway graffiti artist Danny Baker trying to publish his art professionally.

Jessica Ettinger

Her recorded voice is heard by millions of New Yorkers each day announcing stops on the New York City Subway, particularly on the 4, 5, and 6 trains.

Jessica Origliasso

In January 2009, it was announced that Jessica Origliasso would pose nude for PETA after she was seen on the New York City Subway wearing a faux fur jacket with an anti-fur message on the back.

John Francis Hylan

As mayor, Hylan railed against "the interests" and put in motion the building of a publicly owned and operated subway system, which became the IND division of the New York City Subway.

Joyce Kilmer Memorial Bad Poetry Contest

The event is usually held in November and is heralded by the appearance of "Bad Poetry in Motion" flyers around campus (satirizing the New York City Subway's "Poetry in Motion" series) featuring some of the best (or worst?) verses of the last 20 years.

Lenore Skenazy

Skenazy's April 1, 2008 column in The New York Sun, "Why I Let My 9-Year-Old Ride the Subway Alone," described her making the controversial decision to let her son take the New York City Subway home alone.

Morton Freedgood

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, his novel about the hijacking of a New York City Subway train, was a best seller in 1973 and was made into the 1974 movie starring Walter Matthau and Robert Shaw, a 1998 TV-movie remake of the same title, and a 2009 theatrical-feature remake, The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3.

Mr. Monk Takes Manhattan

While Monk and Sharona are making their way back to the station, Monk reluctantly rides the New York City Subway, despite his terror of crowds, germs, and closed spaces.

Peter Samson

In 1966 Samson attempted to ride all lines of the New York City Subway in the shortest possible time.

Project 112

SOD also conducted a series of tests in the New York City Subway system between 7 and 10 June 1966 by dropping light bulbs filled with Bacillus subtilis var.

Save New York

The game takes place on a single static screen with various skyscraper buildings and a subway tunnel running underneath them.

Subway Challenge

The objective of the Subway Challenge is to navigate the entire New York City Subway system in the shortest time possible.

Train protection system

The earliest systems were train stops, as still used by the New York City Subway, the Toronto Subway, the London Underground, the Moscow Subway (only on the older lines) and the Berlin S-Bahn.

Vectran

The United States Department of Homeland Security is sponsoring development of an inflatable plug made of Vectran to prevent flooding in the New York City Subway and other transportation tunnels, as it is strong but relatively inexpensive, and not edible for rats.

Vince Naimoli

Naimoli's father was an Italian immigrant who worked for the New York City Subway system and became a self-taught stationary engineer.

Woodlawn Station

Woodlawn (Metro-North station), a commuter rail station on the Harlem Line near the New York City Subway station of that name, also in The Bronx.


Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line

However, Nikita Khrushchev's inspiration after visiting the New York City Subway prompted all works to be cancelled and the shallow stations to be reopened with a westward surface track creating the Filyovskaya Line.

IND Crosstown Line

The IND Crosstown Line or Brooklyn–Queens Crosstown Line is a rapid transit line of the B Division of the New York City Subway in Brooklyn and Queens, New York City, United States.

Interchange station

Examples include Kuramae Station of Toei in Tokyo, Japan, Lexington Avenue/59th Street/Lexington Avenue–63rd Street stations in New York City, United States, and Xizhimen, Fuxingmen, Jianguomen and Dongzhimen stations in Beijing, People's Republic of China.

Knut Haukelid

Knut Anders Haukelid’s parents were Bjørgulv and Sigrid Haukelid, a couple from Norway who were living in Brooklyn, New York while Bjørgulv, a civil engineer, worked for the Interborough Rapid Transit (now the New York City Subway) (1902–1912).

Mark Ovenden

Helvetica and the New York City Subway System, Paul Shaw, Blue Pencil Editions, New York 2010

Ming Fay

Fay has also completed numerous public art commissions including a suspended glass and steel sculpture for a residential lobby in Philadelphia, a large scale tree sculpture in Puerto Rico, sculptural benches for the New York City Staten Island Ferry Terminal and glass mosaic murals for the Delancey Street – Essex Street New York City subway station.

Shahawar Matin Siraj

Over a period of several months in 2004 he was recorded by an FBI informer Osama Eldawoody plotting to plant a bomb in the 34th Street – Herald Square station of the New York City Subway.

Skanska

Other continuing major projects include the restoration of the World Trade Center ground zero site including the removal of debris, the reconstruction of the PATH and New York City Subway and the creation of a World Trade Center Transportation Hub, due to be completed in 2014, including the Oculus station entrance, designed by Santiago Calatrava.

Susan Justice

During a show in the 34th Street – Herald Square subway station, Cagle was discovered by producer Jay Levine, who introduced her to then new president of Columbia Records, Steve Greenberg.

The Little Man on the Subway

Patrick Cullen, a conductor on the New York subway, is astonished when no one gets off his train as it reaches Flatbush, the end of the line.

Yonkers Trolley Barn

The Broadway lines connected to the New York City Subway's Broadway–Seventh Avenue line at the Van Cortlandt Park—242nd Street station in the Bronx, their southern terminus and the subway's northern end.