2013-04-26
NYC Subway Atmosphere News
studiox-nyc (via chriswoebken):
Today in subway atmosphere news, we learn from WNYC that the NYPD is partnering with Brookhaven National Laboratory to study how chemical weapons might disperse through the city’s underground tunnels. The researchers plan to release a “non-toxic, odorless gas that mimics how chemical, biological and radiological weapons would disperse” in twenty-one subway stations across the five boroughs in July, with 200 sampling devices deployed to monitor its spread.
“We want to be able to determine how toxic material can flow through the transit system, it’s one of the concerns that we’ve had for a while and how it flows on the streets of our city,” Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said in a statement.
The image at the start of this post comes from the invaluable 1908 classic,The Air and Ventilation of Subways, available to read online here. For more on New York City’s subway vents, check out this BLDGBLOG post.
2012-11-01
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The official MTA post-Sandy map, 2012-10-31 (download PDF) (via) (previously)
2012-03-27
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IIT Mies Wallpaper by BravoFoto on Flickr (via):
2x4, Inc: digital print from Adobe Illustrator.
This is a portrait of architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe composed of pictograms that depict various student activities and, from afar, form a single coherent image.
2011-05-09
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The entrance to the NY Transit Exhibition, New York, 1976. The exhibition eventually became a permanent museum.
I love this (sadly no longer extant) signage. So simple, so fantastic.
Photograph: George Cuhaj, via nyscubway.org.
2009-07-28
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Martin Deutsch (again, sorry; but he says interesting things I like responding to) on the reports that the NYC MTA are to use CCTV in the New York Post.
A random, longwinded observation of my own. Those “secure beneath the watchful eyes” ads that everyone from Boing Boing down took exception to (years after they were actually on the streets)? I was never that bothered by them, either. At least if you’re going to have CCTV, tell people about it.
